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Aleksander Giwercman

Researcher at Lund University

Publications -  439
Citations -  40112

Aleksander Giwercman is an academic researcher from Lund University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Sperm. The author has an hindex of 84, co-authored 412 publications receiving 33668 citations. Previous affiliations of Aleksander Giwercman include Copenhagen University Hospital & Biotec.

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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, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Mariachiara Di Cesare, +741 more
- 02 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: The posterior probability of meeting the target of halting by 2025 the rise in obesity at its 2010 levels, if post-2000 trends continue, is calculated.
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Evidence for decreasing quality of semen during past 50 years.

TL;DR: There has been a genuine decline in semen quality over the past 50 years, and as male fertility is to some extent correlated with sperm count the results may reflect an overall reduction in male fertility.
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A century of trends in adult human height

James Bentham, +790 more
- 26 Jul 2016 - 
TL;DR: The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
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Identification of late-onset hypogonadism in middle-aged and elderly men.

TL;DR: Symptoms of poor morning erection, low sexual desire, erectile dysfunction, inability to perform vigorous activity, depression, and fatigue were significantly related to the testosterone level, and an inverse relationship between an increasing number of sexual symptoms and a decreasing testosterone level was observed.