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Hermann Pohlabeln

Researcher at Leibniz Association

Publications -  147
Citations -  10666

Hermann Pohlabeln is an academic researcher from Leibniz Association. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Odds ratio. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 142 publications receiving 8361 citations. Previous affiliations of Hermann Pohlabeln include Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine & University of Bremen.

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

Beate Pesch, +35 more
- 01 Sep 2012 - 
TL;DR: The major result that smoking exerted a steeper risk gradient on SqCC and SCLC than on AdCa is in line with previous population data and biological understanding of lung cancer development.
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in European children below the age of 10

Wolfgang Ahrens, +11 more
- 01 Sep 2014 - 
TL;DR: There is a higher prevalence of obesity in populations from southern Europe and in population groups with lower education and income levels, which confirm the need to develop and reinforce European public health policies to prevent early obesity and to reduce these health inequalities and regional disparities.
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Multicenter Case-Control Study of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer in Europe

Paolo Boffetta, +26 more
- 07 Oct 1998 - 
TL;DR: The results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS and lung cancer risk and weak evidence of a dose-response relationship between risk of lung cancer and exposure to spousal and workplace ETS is found.
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Metabolic syndrome in young children: definitions and results of the IDEFICS study.

Wolfgang Ahrens, +15 more
- 01 Sep 2014 - 
TL;DR: The metabolic syndrome score shows a positive trend with age, particularly regarding the upper percentiles of the score, and a new definition is proposed that should improve clinical guidance and serve as a useful tool in pediatric obesity research.