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Liv Elin Torheim

Researcher at University of Oslo

Publications -  69
Citations -  3649

Liv Elin Torheim is an academic researcher from University of Oslo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Micronutrient. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 59 publications receiving 2908 citations. Previous affiliations of Liv Elin Torheim include Akershus University College & Metropolitan University.

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Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

Goodarz Danaei, +340 more
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for exposure to risk factors by country, age group, and sex from pooled analyses of population-based health surveys and obtained relative risks for the eff ects of risk factors on cause-specifi c mortality from meta-analyses of large prospective studies.
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Food variety -- a good indicator of nutritional adequacy of the diet? A case study from an urban area in Mali West Africa.

Anne Hatløy, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1998 - 
TL;DR: Although a simple count of food items or food groups cannot give a full picture of the adequacy of the nutrient intake, the results from this study show that the food scores can give a fairly good assessment of the nutritional adequacy the diet, particularly if combined.
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Simple Food Group Diversity Indicators Predict Micronutrient Adequacy of Women’s Diets in 5 Diverse, Resource-Poor Settings

Mary Arimond, +11 more
- 01 Nov 2010 - 
TL;DR: Assessment of simple indicators of dietary diversity, such as could be generated from large household surveys, to serve as proxy indicators of micronutrient adequacy for population-level assessment showed moderate predictive strength for the best choice indicators, which varied by site.
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Nutrient adequacy and dietary diversity in rural Mali: association and determinants.

Liv Elin Torheim, +6 more
- 01 Apr 2004 - 
TL;DR: Dietary diversity is useful as an indicator of nutrient adequacy in an area and was associated with socioeconomic status, residence and age, while mean adequacy ratio was explained by the number of milk products, vegetables and green leaves consumed.
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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.