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Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro

Researcher at Sao Paulo State University

Publications -  234
Citations -  8174

Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro is an academic researcher from Sao Paulo State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 189 publications receiving 4945 citations. Previous affiliations of Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro include American Physical Therapy Association & Universidade de Pernambuco.

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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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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, +1144 more
- 11 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control).
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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

Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, +1361 more
- 07 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.
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Validação do monitor de medida de pressão arterial Omron HEM 742 em adolescentes

Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the Omron HEM 742 blood pressure monitoring device with the standard British Hypertension Society (BHS) grade A according to the criteria suggested by the BHS, and the results showed an equal to or lower than 5mmHg difference in 67.3% of the systolic values, and 69.3 % of the diastolic values.
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Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

Maria Lc Iurilli, +1402 more
- 09 Mar 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how much change in mean body mass index (BMI) explains changes in the prevalence of underweight, obesity, and severe obesity in different regions using data from 2896 population-based studies with 187 million participants.