Carlos de Mestral

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 717 citations indexed

About

Carlos de Mestral is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlos de Mestral has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 717 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 5 papers in Health and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Carlos de Mestral's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (4 papers). Carlos de Mestral is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (4 papers). Carlos de Mestral collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Carlos de Mestral's co-authors include Silvia Stringhini, Murielle Bochud, Dušan Petrović, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, Mel Bartley, Mika Kivimäki, Paolo Vineis, Johan P. Mackenbach, Idris Guessous and Saman Khalatbari‐Soltani and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Carlos de Mestral

23 papers receiving 705 citations

Hit Papers

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The contribution of health behaviors to socioeconomic inequalities in health: A systematic review

2018 275 citations Dušan Petrović, Carlos de Mestral et al. Preventive Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carlos de Mestral Switzerland	11	260	213	199	101	83	24	717
Sang Ah Lee South Korea	18	223 0.9×	70 0.3×	196 1.0×	172 1.7×	35 0.4×	66	918
Maria João Gregório Portugal	19	432 1.7×	132 0.6×	380 1.9×	150 1.5×	28 0.3×	66	1.0k
Erin C Mullany United States	9	174 0.7×	55 0.3×	111 0.6×	145 1.4×	24 0.3×	10	643
Ville Helasoja Finland	10	194 0.7×	161 0.8×	201 1.0×	87 0.9×	16 0.2×	11	640
Rute Dinis de Sousa Portugal	14	161 0.6×	136 0.6×	281 1.4×	115 1.1×	24 0.3×	38	729
Aydin Nazmi United States	16	328 1.3×	127 0.6×	329 1.7×	91 0.9×	77 0.9×	24	991
Jana L. Hirschtick United States	17	193 0.7×	100 0.5×	132 0.7×	434 4.3×	27 0.3×	67	918
Ming-Chin Yeh United States	8	334 1.3×	47 0.2×	165 0.8×	158 1.6×	20 0.2×	12	638
Bharathi Viswanathan Seychelles	18	287 1.1×	70 0.3×	163 0.8×	178 1.8×	86 1.0×	43	872

Countries citing papers authored by Carlos de Mestral

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlos de Mestral

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Khalatbari‐Soltani, Saman, Dušan Petrović, Carlos de Mestral, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, & Fiona Blyth. (2025). Mediating impact of sleep quality and duration on the relationship between socio-economic conditions and pain. International Journal of Epidemiology. 54(6).

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Mestral, Carlos de, et al.. (2024). Trends in diabetes prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in French-speaking Switzerland. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2 indexed citations

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Baysson, Hélène, Nick Pullen, Carlos de Mestral, et al.. (2023). Parental willingness to have children vaccinated against COVID-19 in Geneva, Switzerland: a cross-sectional population-based study. Swiss Medical Weekly. 153(4). 40049–40049. 2 indexed citations

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Marques‐Vidal, Pedro, et al.. (2023). Trends and determinants of prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of dyslipidaemia in canton of Geneva, 2005–2019: Potent statins are underused. International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention. 18. 200187–200187. 1 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, et al.. (2020). Association of public care in childhood with social, criminal, cognitive, and health outcomes in middle-age: five decades of follow-up of members of the 1958 birth cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(3). 289–296. 10 indexed citations

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Wozniak, Hannah, et al.. (2020). Vegetarian, pescatarian and flexitarian diets: sociodemographic determinants and association with cardiovascular risk factors in a Swiss urban population. British Journal Of Nutrition. 124(8). 844–852. 62 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Silvia Stringhini, Idris Guessous, & François R. Jornayvaz. (2020). Thirteen-year trends in the prevalence of diabetes according to socioeconomic condition and cardiovascular risk factors in a Swiss population. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 8(1). e001273–e001273. 9 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Angéline Chatelan, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, Silvia Stringhini, & Murielle Bochud. (2019). The Contribution of Diet Quality to Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity: A Population-based Study of Swiss Adults. Nutrients. 11(7). 1573–1573. 21 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Steven Bell, Mark Hamer, & G. David Batty. (2019). Out‐of‐home care in childhood and biomedical risk factors in middle‐age: National birth cohort study. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(3). e23343–e23343. 8 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Silvia Stringhini, Idris Guessous, & François R. Jornayvaz. (2019). Thirteen‐year trends in the prevalence of diabetes in an urban region of Switzerland: a population‐based study. Diabetic Medicine. 37(8). 1374–1378. 12 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Saman Khalatbari‐Soltani, Silvia Stringhini, & Pedro Marques‐Vidal. (2019). Perceived barriers to healthy eating and adherence to dietary guidelines: Nationwide study. Clinical Nutrition. 39(8). 2580–2585. 21 indexed citations

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Khalatbari‐Soltani, Saman, Carlos de Mestral, Gérard Waeber, & Pedro Marques‐Vidal. (2018). Large regional disparities in prevalence, management and reimbursement of hospital undernutrition. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 73(1). 121–131. 4 indexed citations

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Khalatbari‐Soltani, Saman, Carlos de Mestral, & Pedro Marques‐Vidal. (2018). Sixteen years trends in reported undernutrition. Clinical Nutrition. 38(1). 271–278. 4 indexed citations

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Petrović, Dušan, Carlos de Mestral, Murielle Bochud, et al.. (2018). The contribution of health behaviors to socioeconomic inequalities in health: A systematic review. Preventive Medicine. 113. 15–31. 275 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mestral, Carlos de, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, Jean‐Michel Gaspoz, Jean‐Marc Theler, & Idris Guessous. (2017). Independent association between socioeconomic indicators and macro- and micro-nutrient intake in Switzerland. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0174578–e0174578. 14 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Ana‐Lucia Mayén, Dušan Petrović, et al.. (2017). Socioeconomic Determinants of Sodium Intake in Adult Populations of High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Public Health. 107(4). 563–563. 4 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Saman Khalatbari‐Soltani, Silvia Stringhini, & Pedro Marques‐Vidal. (2017). Fifteen-year trends in the prevalence of barriers to healthy eating in a high-income country. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 105(3). 660–668. 27 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Ana‐Lucia Mayén, Dušan Petrović, et al.. (2017). Socioeconomic Determinants of Sodium Intake in Adult Populations of High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Public Health. 107(4). e1–e12. 41 indexed citations

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Mestral, Carlos de, Silvia Stringhini, & Pedro Marques‐Vidal. (2016). Barriers to healthy eating in Switzerland: A nationwide study. Clinical Nutrition. 35(6). 1490–1498. 29 indexed citations

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Mayén, Ana‐Lucia, Carlos de Mestral, Fred Paccaud, et al.. (2016). Interventions promoting healthy eating as a tool for reducing social inequalities in diet in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. International Journal for Equity in Health. 15(1). 205–205. 18 indexed citations

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