Babatunde Osotimehin

Specialty: Reproductive Health

Location: New York, Nigeria

Tier: ELITE

H-Index: 24

Years Active: 0

Hospital Affiliations

• UNFPA - Executive Director

Key Publications

1. "The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of west African origin." - American Journal of Public Health (1997) [687 citations]
2. "Association of waist circumference with risk of hypertension and type 2 diabetes in Nigerians, Jamaicans, and African-Americans." - Diabetes Care (1998) [131 citations]
3. "Disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa: what should we conclude in the absence of data?" - The Lancet (1998) [123 citations]
4. "Standardization of blood pressure measurement in an international comparative study" - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (1996) [113 citations]
5. "A Genome-Wide Search for Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Genes in West Africans" - Diabetes (2004) [102 citations]
6. "In Search of Susceptibility Genes for Type 2 Diabetes in West Africa" - Annals of Epidemiology (2001) [97 citations]
7. "Predictive value of abdominal obesity cut-off points for hypertension in Blacks from West African and Caribbean island nations" - International Journal of Obesity (2000) [75 citations]
8. "Prevalence and determinants of diabetic retinopathy and cataracts in West African type 2 diabetes patients." - PubMed (2003) [75 citations]
9. "Measurement of membrane potentials (ψ) of erythrocytes and white adipocytes by the accumulation of triphenylmethylphosphonium cation" - The Journal of Membrane Biology (1980) [74 citations]
10. "Distribution of Anthropometric Variables and the Prevalence of Obesity in Populations of West African Origin: The International Collaborative Study on Hypertension in Blacks (ICSHIB)" - Obesity Research (1995) [66 citations]

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Babatunde Osotimehin is a Reproductive Health specialist affiliated with UNFPA. Authored 10 scholarly articles.