Christos Pitsavos

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
206 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Christos Pitsavos is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christos Pitsavos has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 80 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 47 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Christos Pitsavos's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (61 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (44 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (30 papers). Christos Pitsavos is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (61 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (44 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (30 papers). Christos Pitsavos collaborates with scholars based in Greece, United States and Australia. Christos Pitsavos's co-authors include Christodoulos Stefanadis, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, Pavlos Toutouzas, John Skoumas, Undurti N. Das, Ekavi Georgousopoulou, Mary Yannakoulia, Antonis Zampelas and Dimitris Tousoulis and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Christos Pitsavos

202 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dietary patterns: A Mediterranean diet score and its relation to clinical and biological markers of cardiovascular disease risk

2006 792 citations Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christos Pitsavos et al. profile →
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet attenuates inflammation and coagulation process in healthy adults

2004 592 citations Christina Chrysohoou, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christos Pitsavos Greece	48	2.7k	2.5k	2.2k	1.3k	1.2k	206	8.2k
Emily B. Levitan United States	48	2.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	999 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	277	9.2k
Dag S. Thelle Norway	54	2.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	931 0.7×	1.9k 1.6×	197	10.0k
Rachel P. Wildman United States	41	1.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.9×	77	7.6k
Christina Chrysohoou Greece	53	4.2k 1.6×	2.7k 1.1×	3.4k 1.6×	1.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.5×	414	11.4k
Alan R. Sinaiko United States	47	3.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	2.2k 1.9×	195	8.6k
Atsushi Hozawa Japan	53	1.6k 0.6×	4.0k 1.6×	1.5k 0.7×	883 0.7×	976 0.8×	288	9.9k
Thomas P. Erlinger United States	33	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	849 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	52	7.1k
Lucy Lennon United Kingdom	49	1.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.3×	163	9.2k
Yoshikuni Kita Japan	39	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	174	5.8k
Tanika N. Kelly United States	33	2.4k 0.9×	3.3k 1.3×	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	157	10.3k

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Georgoulis, Michael, Christina Chrysohoou, Fotios Barkas, et al.. (2024). Mediterranean-Type Diet Adherence and Body Mass Index through 20 Years of Follow-Up: Results from the ATTICA Cohort Study (2002–2022). Nutrients. 16(8). 1128–1128. 9 indexed citations

Tsiampalis, Thomas, Fotios Barkas, Georgia Anastasiou, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Reduces 20-Year Diabetes Incidence: The ATTICA Cohort Study (2002–2022). Metabolites. 14(4). 182–182. 4 indexed citations

Chrysohoou, Christina, Fotios Barkas, Evrydiki Kravvariti, et al.. (2023). Mediterranean Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: The Moderating Role of Adequate Sleep—Results from the ATTICA Cohort Study (2002–2022). Nutrients. 16(1). 12–12. 3 indexed citations

Detopoulou, Paraskevi, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Christina Chrysohoou, et al.. (2023). Food Compass Score predicts incident cardiovascular disease: The ATTICA cohort study (2002–2022). Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 37(1). 203–216. 3 indexed citations

Detopoulou, Paraskevi, et al.. (2023). Food Compass Score and its association with inflammatory markers and homocysteine in cardiovascular disease-free adults: a cross-sectional analysis of the ATTICA epidemiological study. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 77(10). 998–1004. 6 indexed citations

Georgoulis, Michael, Ekavi Georgousopoulou, Christina Chrysohoou, Christos Pitsavos, & Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos. (2022). Longitudinal Trends, Determinants, and Cardiometabolic Impact of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet among Greek Adults. Foods. 11(16). 2389–2389. 14 indexed citations

Kouvari, Matina, Thomas Tsiampalis, Christina Chrysohoou, et al.. (2021). A Mediterranean diet microsimulation modeling in relation to cardiovascular disease burden: the ATTICA and GREECS epidemiological studies. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 76(3). 434–441. 7 indexed citations

Kouvari, Matina, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, et al.. (2020). Meat consumption, depressive symptomatology and cardiovascular disease incidence in apparently healthy men and women: highlights from the ATTICA cohort study (2002–2012). Nutritional Neuroscience. 25(2). 266–275. 3 indexed citations

Chrysohoou, Christina, Matina Kouvari, George Lazaros, et al.. (2020). Predicted Skeletal Muscle Mass and 4-Year Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in Middle-Aged and Elderly Participants of IKARIA Prospective Epidemiological Study: The Mediating Effect of Sex and Cardiometabolic Factors. Nutrients. 12(11). 3293–3293. 8 indexed citations

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Kouvari, Matina, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, et al.. (2020). Sex-Related Differences of the Effect of Lipoproteins and Apolipoproteins on 10-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk; Insights from the ATTICA Study (2002–2012). Molecules. 25(7). 1506–1506. 13 indexed citations

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Kouvari, Matina, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christina Chrysohoou, et al.. (2019). Lipoprotein (a) and 10-year Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in Apparently Healthy Individuals: A Sex-based Sensitivity Analysis from ATTICA Cohort Study. Angiology. 70(9). 819–829. 22 indexed citations

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Tyrovolas, Stefanos, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Ekavi Georgousopoulou, et al.. (2019). The anti-inflammatory potential of diet and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: the ATTICA study. Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology. 12. 3973046903–3973046903. 28 indexed citations

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Foscolou, Alexandra, Lοukianos S. Rallidis, Elena Critselis, et al.. (2018). The association between homocysteine levels, Mediterranean diet and cardiovascular disease: a case-control study. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 70(5). 603–611. 16 indexed citations

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Notara, Venetia, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Matina Kouvari, et al.. (2015). The role of coffee consumption on the 10-year (2004–2014) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) incidence among cardiac patients: the GREECS observational study. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 66(6). 722–728. 7 indexed citations

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Siasos, Gerasimos, Christina Chrysohoou, Evangelos Oikonomou, et al.. (2012). BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN MIDDLE-AGED AND ELDERLY HABITANTS IN AN AREA WITH INCREASED RATES OF LONGEVITY: IKARIA STUDY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 59(13). E1750–E1750. 3 indexed citations

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Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B., et al.. (2007). Estimating the 10-Year Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Its Economic Consequences, by the Level of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet: The ATTICA Study. Journal of Medicinal Food. 10(2). 239–243. 21 indexed citations

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Chrysohoou, Christina, Christos Pitsavos, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, et al.. (2003). The Association Between Physical Activity and the Development of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Treated and Untreated Hypertensive Subjects. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 5(2). 115–120. 12 indexed citations

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Stefanadis, Christodoulos, John Dernellis, Costas Stratos, et al.. (1998). Assessment of Left Atrial Pressure–Area Relation in Humans by Means of Retrograde Left Atrial Catheterization and Echocardiographic Automatic Boundary Detection: Effects of Dobutamine. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 31(2). 426–436. 49 indexed citations

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Trikas, Athanasios, Petros Papadopoulos, Filippos Triposkiadis, et al.. (1994). Factors Affecting the Postoperative Exercise Capacity of Patients with Mitral Stenosis and Aortic Regurgitation. Cardiology. 85(3-4). 201–206. 6 indexed citations

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Stefanadis, Christodoulos, Costas Kourouklis, Costas Stratos, et al.. (1990). Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty by retrograde left atrial catheterization. The American Journal of Cardiology. 65(9). 650–654. 23 indexed citations

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