List of works by Alfonso Siani

-344C/T Variant in the promoter of the aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2) is associated with metabolic syndrome in men.

scientific article published in February 2007

A Common Variant and the Transcript Levels of MC4R Gene Are Associated With Adiposity in Children: The IDEFICS Study

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Alcohol consumption and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in healthy men and women from 3 European populations

scientific article published on 3 December 2008

Association between bone stiffness and nutritional biomarkers combined with weight-bearing exercise, physical activity, and sedentary time in preadolescent children. A case-control study

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Associations between exclusive breastfeeding and physical fitness during childhood

scientific article published on 22 October 2016

Being macrosomic at birth is an independent predictor of overweight in children: results from the IDEFICS study

scientific article published in October 2013

Blood cells as a source of transcriptional biomarkers of childhood obesity and its related metabolic alterations: results of the IDEFICS study

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

Cardiovascular risk factors and global risk of fatal cardiovascular disease are positively correlated between partners of 802 married couples from different European countries. Report from the IMMIDIET project.

scientific article published in September 2007

Circulating microRNAs are associated with early childhood obesity: results of the I.Family Study

Desaturase Activity Is Associated With Weight Status and Metabolic Risk Markers in Young Children

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Diet-obesity associations in children: approaches to counteract attenuation caused by misreporting

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

Dietary Carbohydrate and Nocturnal Sleep Duration in Relation to Children's BMI: Findings from the IDEFICS Study in Eight European Countries

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Dietary Patterns of European Children and Their  Parents in Association with Family Food  Environment: Results from the I.Family Study

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Does Providing Assistance to Children and Adolescents Increase Repeatability and Plausibility of Self-Reporting Using a Web-Based Dietary Recall Instrument?

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Early life course risk factors for childhood obesity: the IDEFICS case-control study

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FTO Genotype And Body Mass Index In Young Children: Physical Activity Levels Influence The Effect Of The Risk Genotype

Familial aggregation and socio-demographic correlates of taste preferences in European children

scientific article published on 06 December 2017

Family structure and childhood obesity: results of the IDEFICS Project

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

Folate intake and folate serum levels in men and women from two European populations: The IMMIDIET project

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Food intake and inflammation in European children: the IDEFICS study

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Genetic variation of alcohol dehydrogenase type 1C (ADH1C), alcohol consumption, and metabolic cardiovascular risk factors: results from the IMMIDIET study.

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

High-sensitivity C-reactive protein is a predictive factor of adiposity in children: results of the identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants (IDEFICS) study

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

Incidence of high blood pressure in children - effects of physical activity and sedentary behaviors: the IDEFICS study: High blood pressure, lifestyle and children

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Inflammation and insulin resistance according to body composition in European adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular disease risk factors in young children: a cross-sectional study (the IDEFICS study).

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Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in European children: the IDEFICS study

scientific article published on 8 October 2013

Polygenic risk for obesity and its interaction with lifestyle and sociodemographic factors in European children and adolescents

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Potential selection effects when estimating associations between the infancy peak or adiposity rebound and later body mass index in children.

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Prevalence of negative life events and chronic adversities in European pre- and primary-school children: results from the IDEFICS study

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

Prevalence of psychosomatic and emotional symptoms in European school-aged children and its relationship with childhood adversities: results from the IDEFICS study

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Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in healthy unrelated male-female pairs of European regions: the dietary habit profile in European communities with different risk of myocardial infarction--the impact of migration as a mod

scientific article published in December 2008

Prospective analysis of the association of a common variant of FTO (rs9939609) with adiposity in children: results of the IDEFICS study

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Prospective associations between dietary patterns and high sensitivity C-reactive protein in European children: the IDEFICS study

scientific article published on 18 March 2017

Relationship between markers of body fat and calcaneal bone stiffness differs between preschool and primary school children: results from the IDEFICS baseline survey

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Relative validity of the Children's Eating Habits Questionnaire-food frequency section among young European children: the IDEFICS Study

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

SIMEX for correction of dietary exposure effects with Box-Cox transformed data

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Sleep duration and blood pressure in children: Analysis of the pan-European IDEFICS cohort

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

The Impact of Adding Sugars to Milk and Fruit on Adiposity and Diet Quality in Children: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis of the Identification and Prevention of Dietary- and Lifestyle-Induced Health Effects in Children and Infants (IDEFIC

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The role of a FADS1 polymorphism in the association of fatty acid blood levels, BMI and blood pressure in young children-Analyses based on path models

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The role of neuromedin U in adiposity regulation. Haplotype analysis in European children from the IDEFICS Cohort

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Timing of solid food introduction and association with later childhood overweight and obesity: The IDEFICS study

scientific article published on 08 June 2017

Transcriptome analysis in blood cells from children reveals potential early biomarkers of metabolic alterations

scientific article published on 6 June 2017

Understanding the links among neuromedin U gene, beta2-adrenoceptor gene and bone health: an observational study in European children

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Urinary sucrose and fructose to validate self-reported sugar intake in children and adolescents: results from the I.Family study

scientific article published on 06 March 2018

Urinary volatile organic compounds in overweight compared to normal-weight children: results from the Italian I.Family cohort.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

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

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