Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Dimitrios Trichopoulos was a Mediterranean Diet expert and tobacco harms researcher. He was Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, and a past chair of the Department of Epidemiology, in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
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Dimitrios Trichopoulos was a Mediterranean Diet expert and tobacco harms researcher. He was Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, and a past chair of the Department of Epidemiology, in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
Top Publications
- 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 (2017) - 7,738 citations
- Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and Survival in a Greek Population (2003) - 4,446 citations
- 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 (2021) - 3,976 citations
- Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants (2016) - 2,668 citations
- Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults (2024) - 2,458 citations
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- Full name
- Dimitrios Trichopoulos
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5107310492
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- Cancer Risks and Factors, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Estrogen and related hormone effects
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- 7,738OpenAlex citations
- Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and Survival in a Greek Population ↗2003 · New England Journal of Medicine4,446OpenAlex citations
- 3,976OpenAlex citations
- 2,668OpenAlex citations
- 2,458OpenAlex citations
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- Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and Survival in a Greek Population ↗2003 · New England Journal of Medicine
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