Trevor S. Ferguson

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

1. Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants

   2016 · 4,303 citations

2. 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

   2024 · 2,453 citations

3. Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

   2019 · 733 citations

4. 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

   2020 · 416 citations

5. Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol

   2020 · 298 citations

6. Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331 288 participants

   2015 · 191 citations

7. A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome

   2016 · 167 citations

8. Laboratory-based and office-based risk scores and charts to predict 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in 182 countries: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts and health surveys

   2017 · 150 citations

9. Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys

   2019 · 118 citations

10. Prevalence of prehypertension and its relationship to risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Jamaica: Analysis from a cross-sectional survey

    2008 · 106 citations

11. Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

    2019 · 98 citations

12. Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c

    2023 · 94 citations

13. Challenges and disparities in the application of personalized genomic medicine to populations with African ancestry

    2016 · 76 citations

14. An update on the burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Jamaica: findings from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008

    2025 · 71 citations

15. Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development

    2023 · 70 citations

16. Disparities in diabetes mellitus among Caribbean populations: a scoping review

    2015 · 63 citations

17. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components in relation to socioeconomic status among Jamaican young adults: a cross-sectional study

    2010 · 63 citations

18. The epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in Jamaica and the Caribbean: a historical review

    2025 · 53 citations

19. Farming, Reported Pesticide Use, and Prostate Cancer

    2012 · 50 citations

20. Progression from prehypertension to hypertension in a Jamaican cohort: incident hypertension and its predictors.

    2010 · 48 citations

21. Disparities in cardiovascular disease among Caribbean populations: a systematic literature review

    2015 · 46 citations

22. Diabetes mellitus in Jamaica: sex differences in burden, risk factors, awareness, treatment and control in a developing country

    2013 · 43 citations

23. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Jamaican adults and its relationship to income and education levels.

    2010 · 42 citations

24. Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

    2019 · 40 citations

25. Factors affecting study efficiency and item non-response in health surveys in developing countries: the Jamaica national healthy lifestyle survey

    2007 · 33 citations

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