Kai-Uwe Saum

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

Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou et al. · Nature · 2019 · 745 citations · Full text

Public Health, Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences +11

Epigenetic age acceleration predicts cancer, cardiovascular, and all-cause mortality in a German case cohort

Laura Perna, Yan Zhang, Ute Mons et al. · Clinical Epigenetics · 2016 · 622 citations · Full text

Medicine, Biostatistics, Oncology +17

DNA methylation signatures in peripheral blood strongly predict all-cause mortality

Yan Zhang, Rory Wilson, Jonathan Heiss et al. · Nature Communications · 2017 · 397 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +17

Frailty is associated with the epigenetic clock but not with telomere length in a German cohort

Lutz Philipp Breitling, Kai-Uwe Saum, Laura Perna et al. · Clinical Epigenetics · 2016 · 312 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Geriatric Medicine +17