Key Articles

Significantly Impactful Studies

A few seminal results with potential to change medical and public health practice.

June 1, 2025

Persistent Hyperglycemia and Insulin Resistance With the Risk of Worsening Cardiac Damage in Adolescents: A 7-Year Longitudinal Study of the ALSPAC Birth Cohort

Agbaje AO, Zachariah JP, Barker AR, Williams CA, Vlachopoulos D, Saner C, Tuomainen TP

Diabetes Care, 48(6), 896-904

May 3, 2025

Novel Pediatric Waist-to-height Ratio Fat Mass Cutoff Predicts Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis Better than Body Mass Index: The NHANES

Agbaje AO

Journal of the Endocrine Society, 9(7), bvaf079

February 11, 2025

Incidental and Progressive Tobacco Smoking in Childhood and Subsequent Risk of Premature Cardiac Damage

Agbaje AO

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 85(5), 546-549

October 1, 2024

Waist-circumference-to-height-ratio had better longitudinal agreement with DEXA-measured fat mass than BMI in 7237 children

Agbaje AO

Pediatric Research, 96, 1369-1380

September 6, 2024

Accelerometer-based sedentary time and physical activity from childhood through young adulthood with progressive cardiac changes: a 13-year longitudinal study

Agbaje AO

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 31, 1480-1492

August 13, 2024

DXA-based Fat Mass With Risk of Worsening Insulin Resistance in Adolescents: A 9-Year Temporal and Mediation Study

Agbaje AO, Saner C, Zhang J, Henderson M, Tuomainen TP

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 109, e1708-e1719

December 12, 2023

Effects of accelerometer-based sedentary time and physical activity on DEXA-measured fat mass in 6059 children

Agbaje AO, Perng W, Tuomainen TP

Nature Communications, 14, 8232

January 1, 2022

Effects of Arterial Stiffness and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression on the Risk of Overweight/Obesity and Elevated Blood Pressure/Hypertension: a Cross-Lagged Cohort Study

Agbaje AO, Barker AR, Tuomainen TP

Hypertension, 79, 159-169