Bernardo Lessa Horta

Active 1996–2024

131
Papers
22,357
Citations
77
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129
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Citations

Citations per year for Bernardo Lessa Horta1939: 1 citations1978: 1 citations1995: 1 citations1996: 3 citations1999: 3 citations2000: 3 citations2001: 7 citations2002: 6 citations2003: 19 citations2004: 15 citations2005: 27 citations2006: 25 citations2007: 33 citations2008: 57 citations2009: 77 citations2010: 89 citations2011: 88 citations2012: 137 citations2013: 151 citations2014: 135 citations2015: 152 citations2016: 188 citations2017: 189 citations2018: 156 citations2019: 672 citations2020: 746 citations2021: 772 citations2022: 576 citations2023: 357 citations2024: 512 citations2025: 199 citations2026: 9 citations1940–1977: no citations, so these years are not shown1979–1994: no citations, so these years are not shown1997–1998: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,595 citing papers, 16.4% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,042 citing papers, 10.7% of this breakdownBrazil: 898 citing papers, 9.2% of this breakdownChina: 462 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 436 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownCanada: 387 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownGermany: 351 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownNetherlands: 326 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownSpain: 266 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownItaly: 235 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSweden: 213 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownFrance: 181 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine64.7%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology8.3%
  • Nursing7%
  • Neuroscience3.9%
  • Health Professions3.2%
  • Dentistry3.2%
  • Other9.7%

Topics

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder7.6%
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences5%
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access3.9%
  • Birth, Development, and Health2.8%
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet2.5%
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum2.5%
  • Other75.7%

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  1. The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis

    Authors: , , , , - American Journal of Psychiatry 2007 cited by 5,316

  2. Long‐term consequences of breastfeeding on cholesterol, obesity, systolic blood pressure and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

    Authors: , , - Acta Paediatrica 2015 cited by 1,210

  3. Breastfeeding and intelligence: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

    Authors: , , - Acta Paediatrica 2015 cited by 775

  4. Inflammatory Biomarkers and Risk of Schizophrenia

    Authors: , , , , - JAMA Psychiatry 2017 cited by 331

  5. Life-Course Genome-wide Association Study Meta-analysis of Total Body BMD and Assessment of Age-Specific Effects

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David Karasik, Nathalie van der Velde, M. Arfan Ikram, Babette S. Zemel, Yanhua Zhou, Christian J. Carlsson, Ching‐Ti Liu, Fiona E. McGuigan, Cindy G. Boer, Klaus Bønnelykke, Stuart H. Ralston, John A. Robbins, John P. Walsh, M. Carola Zillikens, Claudia Langenberg, Ruifang Li‐Gao, Frances M. K. Williams, Tamara B. Harris, Kristina Åkesson, Rebecca D. Jackson, Gunnar Sigurðsson, Martin den Heijer, Bram C. J. van der Eerden, Jeroen van de Peppel, Timothy D. Spector, Craig E. Pennell, Bernardo Lessa Horta, Janine F. Felix, Jing Hua Zhao, Scott G. Wilson, Renée de Mutsert, Hans Bisgaard, Unnur Styrkársdóttir, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Eric Orwoll, Timo A. Lakka, Robert A. Scott, Struan F.A. Grant, Mattias Lorentzon, Cornelia M. van Duijn, James F. Wilson, Kari Stefansson, Bruce M. Psaty, Douglas P. Kiel, Claes Ohlsson, Evangelia Ntzani, André J. van Wijnen, Vincenzo Forgetta, Mohsen Ghanbari, John G. Logan, Graham R. Williams, J. H. Duncan Bassett, Peter I. Croucher, Εvangelos Εvangelou, André G. Uitterlinden, Cheryl L. Ackert‐Bicknell, Jonathan H. Tobias, David M. Evans, Fernando Rivadeneira - The American Journal of Human Genetics 2018 cited by 361

  6. Prepregnancy BMI and the risk of gestational diabetes: a systematic review of the literature with meta‐analysis

    Authors: , , , , , , - Obesity Reviews 2008 cited by 745

  7. Systematic review and meta‐analysis of breastfeeding and later overweight or obesity expands on previous study for World Health Organization

    Authors: , , , , - Acta Paediatrica 2022 cited by 170

  8. PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomisation study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jackie F. Price, Mika Kivimäki, Catherine Welch, Adelaida Sánchez-Gálvez, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, Andrew Nicolaides, Andrie G. Panayiotou, N. Charlotte Onland‐Moret, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Giuseppe Matullo, Giovanni Fiorito, Simonetta Guarrera, Carlotta Sacerdote, Nicholas J. Wareham, Claudia Langenberg, Robert A. Scott, Jian’an Luan, Martin Bobák, Sofia Malyutina, Andrzej Pająk, Růžena Kubínová, Abdonas Tamošiūnas, Hynek Pikhart, Lise Lotte N. Husemoen, Niels Grarup, Oluf Pedersen, Torben Hansen, Allan Linneberg, Kenneth Starup Simonsen, Jackie A. Cooper, Steve E. Humphries, Murray H. Brilliant, Terrie Kitchner, Håkon Håkonarson, David Carrell, Catherine A. McCarty, H. Lester Kirchner, Eric B. Larson, David R. Crosslin, Mariza de Andrade, Dan M. Roden, Joshua C. Denny, Cara L. Carty, Stephen Hancock, John Attia, Elizabeth Holliday, Martin O’Donnell, Salim Yusuf, Michael Chong, Guillaume Paré, Pim van der Harst, M. Abdullah Said, Ruben N. Eppinga, Niek Verweij, Harold Snieder, Tim Christen, Dennis O. Mook‐Kanamori, Stefan Gustafsson, Lars Lind, Erik Ingelsson, Raha Pazoki, Oscar H. Franco, Albert Hofman, André G. Uitterlinden, Abbas Dehghan, Alexander Teumer, Sebastian E. Baumeister, Marcus Dörr, Markus M. Lerch, Uwe Völker and 33 more - The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2016 cited by 391

  9. Breastfeeding and Type 2 Diabetes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Authors: , - Current Diabetes Reports 2019 cited by 151

  10. Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

    Authors: , , , , , , , - The Lancet Global Health 2015 cited by 797

  11. Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - The Lancet 2022 cited by 107

  12. Economic costs of childhood stunting to the private sector in low- and middle-income countries

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - EClinicalMedicine 2022 cited by 78

  13. Whole-genome sequencing of 1,171 elderly admixed individuals from Brazil

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Michael Dean, Maurício L. Barreto, Maria Fernanda Lima‐Costa, Bernardo Lessa Horta, Eduardo Tarazona‐Santos, Diogo Meyer, Pedro A. F. Galante, Victor Guryev, Erick C. Castelli, Yeda A. O. Duarte, Maria Rita Passos‐Bueno, Mayana Zatz - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 128

  14. Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Joy E Lawn, César G. Victora - The Lancet 2022 cited by 109

  15. Low birth weight, preterm birth and small for gestational age association with adult depression: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Authors: , , , - The British Journal of Psychiatry 2014 cited by 117

  16. Consumption of ultra-processed foods and IL-6 in two cohorts from high- and middle-income countries

    Authors: , , , , , , - British Journal Of Nutrition 2022 cited by 33

  17. 'Kangaroo mother care' to prevent neonatal deaths due to preterm birth complications

    Authors: , , , , - International Journal of Epidemiology 2010 cited by 536

  18. The Genomic Impact of European Colonization of the Americas

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Anna Olivieri, Ornella Semino, Kristiina Tambets, Toomas Kivisild, Donata Luiselli, Antonio Torroni, Cristian Capelli, Eduardo Tarazona‐Santos, Mait Metspalu, Luca Pagani, Francesco Montinaro - Current Biology 2019 cited by 124

  19. Origin and dynamics of admixture in Brazilians and its effect on the pattern of deleterious mutations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Hansi Weißensteiner, Meredith Yeager, Laura C. Rodrigues, Maurício L. Barreto, Maria Fernanda Lima‐Costa, Alexandre C. Pereira, Maíra R. Rodrigues, Eduardo Tarazona‐Santos, Neuza Maria Alcântara‐Neves, Nathalia Matta Araujo, Márcio L.B. Carvalho, Jackson Santos Conceição, Josélia Oliveira Araújo Firmo, Denise P. Gigante, Lindolfo Meira, Thais Muniz-Queiroz, Guilherme Oliveira, Isabel O. Oliveira, Sérgio Viana Peixoto, Fernando Augusto Proietti, D. C. Rodrigues, Meddly L. Santolalla, Agostino Strina, Camila Zolini - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015 cited by 278

  20. Breastfeeding and neurodevelopmental outcomes

    Authors: , , - Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care 2018 cited by 122

  21. Prevalence of tooth wear and associated factors: A birth cohort study

    Authors: , , , , , , - Journal of Dentistry 2022 cited by 23

  22. What are the causal effects of breastfeeding on IQ, obesity and blood pressure? Evidence from comparing high-income with middle-income cohorts

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - International Journal of Epidemiology 2011 cited by 387

  23. Trends in cardiometabolic risk factors in the Americas between 1980 and 2014: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Imperia Brajkovich, Lizzy M. Brewster, Christine Cameron, Ana Paula Carlos Cândido, Felicia Cañete, Viviane C Cardoso, Estéban Carmuega, Juraci Almeida César, Queenie Chan, Diego Giulliano Destro Christófaro, Janine Clarke, Susana Cararo Confortin, Cora L. Craig, Felipe Vogt Cureau, Juvenal Soares Dias da Costa, Alejandro Díaz, Silvana C Donoso, Eleonora d’Orsi, Paula Duarte de Oliveira, Samuel Carvalho Dumith, Denise Eldemire‐Shearer, Paul Elliott, Jorge Escobedo-de la Peña, Trevor S. Ferguson, Romulo A Fernandes, Daniel Ferrante, Catterina Ferreccio, Damian Francis, Flávio Danni Fuchs, Sandra Cristina Pereira Costa Fuchs, Andréa Gazzinelli, David Goltzman, Helen Gonçalves, Bruna Gonçalves Cordeiro da Silva, Ángel González, David Alejandro González‐Chica, Margot González-León, Juan P. González‐Rivas, Clicerio González‐Villalpando, María-Elena González-Villalpando, Mariano Bonet, Ronald D. Gregor, Ramiro Guerrero, André Luiz Sena Guimarães, Martin Gulliford, Laura Gutiérrez, Ian Hambleton, Leticia Hernández‐Cadena, Víctor Herrera, Wilma M. Hopman, Andréa R. V. R. Horimoto, Claudia M Hormiga, Bernardo Lessa Horta, Christina Howitt, Vilma Irazola, Kenneth James, Ramon O Jimenez, Santa Jiménez-Acosta, Michel Joffres, Patrick Kolsteren, Orlando Landrove, María Lazo-Porras, Christa L. Lilly, Maria Fernanda Lima‐Costa, Tania López, Paulo A. Lotufo, George LL Machado‐Coelho, Aristides M. Machado‐Rodrigues, Márcia Makdisse, Paula Margozzini and 85 more - The Lancet Global Health 2019 cited by 114

  24. Origins, Admixture Dynamics, and Homogenization of the African Gene Pool in the Americas

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Bernardo Lessa Horta, Maria Fernanda Lima‐Costa, Sam M. Mbulaiteye, Stephen J. Chanock, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Meredith Yeager, Eduardo Tarazona‐Santos - Molecular Biology and Evolution 2020 cited by 72