Wolfgang Ahrens

Research interests

Publications

• Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants

  The Lancet · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(24)02317-1

• 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

  The Lancet · 2024 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02750-2

• 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

  The Lancet · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01330-1

• Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

  Nature · 2020 · 10.1038/s41586-020-2338-1

• Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe – harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents

  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity · 2020 · 10.1186/s12966-020-00930-x

• Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

  The Lancet · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31859-6

• Association between Characteristics at Birth, Breastfeeding and Obesity in 22 Countries: The WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative – COSI 2015/2017

  Obesity Facts · 2019 · 10.1159/000500425

• Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in European Children From 1999 to 2016

  Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · 2019 · 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.2430

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

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1171-x

• 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

  The Lancet · 2017 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32129-3

• Genome-wide association analyses identify new susceptibility loci for oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer

  Nature Genetics · 2016 · 10.1038/ng.3685

• Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

  The Lancet · 2016 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31919-5

• Early Childhood Electronic Media Use as a Predictor of Poorer Well-being

  Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · 2014 · 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.94

• Prevalence of overweight and obesity in European children below the age of 10

  International Journal of Obesity · 2014 · 10.1038/ijo.2014.140

• Metabolic syndrome in young children: definitions and results of the IDEFICS study

  International Journal of Obesity · 2014 · 10.1038/ijo.2014.130

• Adult height and head and neck cancer: A pooled analysis within the INHANCE Consortium

  University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 2014 · 10.1002/hed

• Objectively measured physical activity in European children: the IDEFICS study

  International Journal of Obesity · 2014 · 10.1038/ijo.2014.144

• Agreement of different methods for assessing sleep characteristics: a comparison of two actigraphs, wrist and hip placement, and self-report with polysomnography

  Sleep Medicine · 2014 · 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.04.015

• Physical fitness reference standards in European children: the IDEFICS study

  International Journal of Obesity · 2014 · 10.1038/ijo.2014.136

• A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

  PLoS Genetics · 2011 · 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001333

• Cigarette smoking and lung cancer—relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case–control studies

  International Journal of Cancer · 2011 · 10.1002/ijc.27339

• The IDEFICS cohort: design, characteristics and participation in the baseline survey

  International Journal of Obesity · 2011 · 10.1038/ijo.2011.30

• A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature06885

• Occupational exposure to carcinogens in the European Union

  Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 2000 · 10.1136/oem.57.1.10

• Multicenter Case-Control Study of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer in Europe

  JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 1998 · 10.1093/jnci/90.19.1440

Current projects

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