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Goodarz Danaei

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  192
Citations -  67656

Goodarz Danaei is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 173 publications receiving 55837 citations. Previous affiliations of Goodarz Danaei include Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation & Imperial College London.

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

Bin Zhou, +790 more
- 07 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: The number of adults with raised blood pressure increased from 594 million in 1975 to 1·13 billion in 2015, with the increase largely in low-income and middle-income countries, and the contributions of changes in prevalence versus population growth and ageing to the increase.
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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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Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors.

Goodarz Danaei, +4 more
- 19 Nov 2005 - 
TL;DR: This report estimates mortality from 12 types of cancer attributable to nine risk factors in seven World Bank regions for 2001 and suggests reduction of exposure to key behavioural and environmental risk factors would prevent a substantial proportion of deaths from cancer.
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National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants

Goodarz Danaei, +11 more
- 12 Feb 2011 - 
TL;DR: On average, global population SBP decreased slightly since 1980, but trends varied significantly across regions and countries, and SBP is currently highest in low-income and middle-income countries.
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Global Sodium Consumption and Death from Cardiovascular Causes

Abstr Act, +9 more
- 13 Aug 2014 - 
TL;DR: The rate of death from cardiovascular causes associated with sodium intake above the reference level was highest in the country of Georgia and lowest in Kenya, and the cardiovascular effects of current sodium intake, as compared with a reference intake of 2.0 g per day were estimated.