# Wolfgang Ahrens

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/wolfgang-ahrens/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 45,333 |
| Field | Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet |
| h-index | 90 |
| i10-index | 395 |
| Last Known Institution | University of Bremen |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5030844189 |
| ORCID iD | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-570X |
| Works | 732 |

## Researcher papers

Showing 12 of 23.

- [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](https://scholariq.org/papers/worldwide-trends-in-body-mass-index-underweight-overweight-and-obesity-from-1975/)
- [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](https://scholariq.org/papers/worldwide-trends-in-hypertension-prevalence-and-progress-in-treatment-and/)
- [Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants](https://scholariq.org/papers/worldwide-trends-in-blood-pressure-from-1975-to-2015-a-pooled-analysis-of-1479/)
- [Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/worldwide-trends-in-underweight-and-obesity-from-1990-to-2022-a-pooled-analysis/)
- [A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-susceptibility-locus-for-lung-cancer-maps-to-nicotinic-acetylcholine-receptor/)
- [Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1108 population-representative studies with 141 million participants](https://scholariq.org/papers/worldwide-trends-in-diabetes-prevalence-and-treatment-from-1990-to-2022-a-pooled/)
- [Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/rising-rural-body-mass-index-is-the-main-driver-of-the-global-obesity-epidemic/)
- [Cigarette smoking and lung cancer—relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case–control studies](https://scholariq.org/papers/cigarette-smoking-and-lung-cancer-relative-risk-estimates-for-the-major/)
- [Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe – harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents](https://scholariq.org/papers/variations-in-accelerometry-measured-physical-activity-and-sedentary-time-across/)
- [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](https://scholariq.org/papers/height-and-body-mass-index-trajectories-of-school-aged-children-and-adolescents/)
- [The IDEFICS cohort: design, characteristics and participation in the baseline survey](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-idefics-cohort-design-characteristics-and-participation-in-the-baseline/)
- [Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in European Children From 1999 to 2016](https://scholariq.org/papers/prevalence-and-trends-of-overweight-and-obesity-in-european-children-from-1999/)

## Researcher topics

- [Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/obesity-physical-activity-diet/)
- [Occupational and environmental lung diseases](https://scholariq.org/topics/occupational-and-environmental-lung-diseases/)
- [Head and Neck Cancer Studies](https://scholariq.org/topics/head-and-neck-cancer-studies/)
- [Nutritional Studies and Diet](https://scholariq.org/topics/nutritional-studies-and-diet/)
- [Health and Medical Studies](https://scholariq.org/topics/health-and-medical-studies/)

## Researcher university

- [University of Bremen](https://scholariq.org/institutions/university-of-bremen/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.