Fernando Rigo Carratalà

Hernáez Á, Camps-Vilaró A, Polo-Alonso S, et al. Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses). Eur J Epidemiol. 2025;40(5):581-599. doi:10.1007/s10654-025-01229-6

Pou Bordoy J, Leiva A, Albendín Ariza MJ, et al. Major abnormalities of the electrocardiogram and cardiovascular risk in a medium and high-risk Mediterranean population. Alteraciones mayores del electrocardiograma y riesgo cardiovascular en la población mediterránea de medio y alto riesgo. Med Clin (Barc). 2025;164(6):277-286. doi:10.1016/j.medcli.2024.10.010

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7·5 million participants. Lancet. 2024;404(10455):851-863. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01405-3

Unda Villafuerte F, Llobera Cànaves J, Estela Mantolan A, et al. Effectiveness of medication self-management, self-monitoring and a lifestyle intervention on hypertension in poorly controlled patients: The MEDICHY randomized trial. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2024;11:1355037. Published 2024 May 21. doi:10.3389/fcvm.2024.1355037

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c. Nat Med. 2023;29(11):2885-2901. doi:10.1038/s41591-023-02610-2

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development. Nature. 2023;615(7954):874-883. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8

Gómez-Sánchez L, Rodríguez-Sánchez E, Ramos R, et al. Association of physical activity with vascular aging in a population with intermediate cardiovascular risk, analysis by sex: MARK study. Biol Sex Differ. 2022;13(1):46. Published 2022 Aug 20. doi:10.1186/s13293-022-00456-w

Gómez-Sánchez L, Rodríguez-Sánchez E, Ramos R, et al. The Association of Dietary Intake with Arterial Stiffness and Vascular Ageing in a Population with Intermediate Cardiovascular Risk-A MARK Study. Nutrients. 2022;14(2):244. Published 2022 Jan 7. doi:10.3390/nu14020244

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 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. Lancet. 2021;398(10304):957-980. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01330-1

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. Elife. 2021;10:e60060. Published 2021 Mar 9. doi:10.7554/eLife.60060

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 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. Lancet. 2020;396(10261):1511-1524. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol. Nature. 2020;582(7810):73-77. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2338-1

Unda Villafuerte F, Llobera Cànaves J, Lorente Montalvo P, et al. Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention, consisting of self-management of antihypertensive medication, self-measurement of blood pressure, hypocaloric and low sodium diet, and physical exercise, in patients with uncontrolled hypertension taking 2 or more antihypertensive drugs: The MEDICHY study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2020;99(17):e19769. doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000019769

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). National trends in total cholesterol obscure heterogeneous changes in HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio: a pooled analysis of 458 population-based studies in Asian and Western countries. Int J Epidemiol. 2020;49(1):173-192. doi:10.1093/ije/dyz099

Gomez-Marcos MA, Gomez-Sanchez L, Patino-Alonso MC, et al. Capacity adiposity indices to identify metabolic syndrome in subjects with intermediate cardiovascular risk (MARK study). PLoS One. 2019;14(1):e0209992. Published 2019 Jan 25. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209992

Gomez-Marcos MA, Gomez-Sanchez L, Patino-Alonso MC, et al. A body shape index and vascular structure and function in Spanish adults (MARK study): A cross-sectional study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018;97(47):e13299. doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000013299

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants. Int J Epidemiol. 2018;47(3):872-883i. doi:10.1093/ije/dyy016

Barroso M, Goday A, Ramos R, et al. Interaction between cardiovascular risk factors and body mass index and 10-year incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer death, and overall mortality. Prev Med. 2018;107:81-89. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.11.013

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 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. Lancet. 2017;390(10113):2627-2642. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3