Nicholas J. Wareham

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen, Zargar Abdul Hamid et al. · The Lancet · 2017 · 7.6K citations · Full text

Public Health, Child Health, Public Health Nutrition +17

A Common Variant in the <i>FTO</i> Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity

Timothy M. Frayling, Nicholas J. Timpson, Michael N. Weedon et al. · Science · 2007 · 4.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +17

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Goodarz Danaei et al. · The Lancet · 2021 · 3.7K citations · Full text

Medicine, Chronic Disease Control, Clinical Epidemiology +16

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Cristen J. Willer, Sonja I. Berndt et al. · Nature Genetics · 2010 · 3K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Genetics +11

Congenital leptin deficiency is associated with severe early-onset obesity in humans

Carl Montague, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Jonathan P. Whitehead et al. · Nature · 1997 · 2.9K citations · Full text

Medicine, Endocrinology, Pediatrics +11