Dr Agbaje is a physician, a clinical and pediatric epidemiologist, and currently, an international project researcher investigating causal relationships between aerobic fitness, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, body composition, dysglycaemia, dyslipidaemia, metabolic syndrome, and arterial/cardiac structure and function from childhood through young adulthood.
He is the principal investigator of the urFIT-child research group and has very strong collaborative network with world-renowned experts, pediatricians, exercise physiologists, epidemiologists, and adult clinicians in Canada, US, UK, Germany, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria etc.
He is a Paul Dudley White International Scholar and Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award Finalist- Awards of the American Heart Association.
He is a member of the scientific writing group of the Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in Youth subcommittee of the American Heart Association.
He was an invited guest speaker to the largest mother and child center in Canada – CHU Sainte-Justine Mother and Child University Hospital Center, Canada in March 2023 to speak on the determinants of carotid intima-media thickness and arterial stiffness in pediatrics.
He has been appointed an Honorary Research Fellow at the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre (CHERC), Department of Public Health and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
He was recently appointed to serve on the editorial board of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB), a prestigious American Heart Association Journal.
His secondary affiliate email is a.agbaje@exeter.ac.uk
Research groups
Projects
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- Communicator of the Year Award 2022 of the University of Eastern Finland
- Reviewer of the Year Award 2021/2022 of the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
- Young Investigator Fellowship Award 2022 of the European Atherosclerosis Society
- Paul Dudley White International Scholar 2022 Award of the American Heart Association
- Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research 2022 Award Finalist for New Investigators at the Epi Lifestyle Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association
- Paul Dudley White International Scholar 2021 Award of the American Heart Association
- Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research 2021 Award Finalist for New Investigators at the Epi Lifestyle Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association
- Distinction (1000/1000 points) in Clinical Research 2020, Harvard University, Boston, US
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- European Heart Journal (EHJ)
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)
- Diabetes Care
- Circulation Research
- Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (ATVB)
- Hypertension
- Pediatrics
- European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (EJPC)
- Atherosclerosis
- International Journal of Obesity
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM)
- Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine
- Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental
- Journal of Cachexia, Sacropenia, and Muscle (JCSM)
- Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA)
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE)
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
- Journal of Hypertension
- Journal of the Endocrine Society
- Pediatric Exercise Science
- Annals of Epidemiology
- Acta Pediatrica
- Pediatric Cardiology
- European Journal of Sports Science
- Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging
- Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
- High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention
- BMJ Open
- Plos One
- BMC Pediatrics
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Clinical Epidemiology: TL00BN63-3001 (3 ECTS) (Advanced course for Masters and PhD candidates)
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: (3 ECTS) (Advanced course for Masters and PhD candidates)
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Agbaje AO, Zachariah JP, Tuomainen TP. Arterial Stiffness but not Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression Precede Premature Structural and Functional Cardiac Damage in Youth: A 7-Year Temporal and Mediation Longitudinal Study. Atherosclerosis 2023 August 3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2023.117197
Agbaje AO. Adolescents Cholesterol Passport: A Universal Pediatric Lipid Screening Tool to Combat Atherosclerosis – the World’s Deadliest Scourge. Front Pediatr. 2023 June 19;11. doi: 10.3389/fped.2023.1228483
Agbaje AO. Longitudinal Mediating effect of Fatmass and Lipids on Sedentary Time, Light PA, and MVPA with Inflammation in Youth. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2023 Jun 13:dgad354. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgad354. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37310686.
Agbaje AO. Arterial stiffness preceding metabolic syndrome in 3,862 adolescents: a mediation and temporal causal longitudinal birth cohort study. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Jun 1;324(6):H905-H911. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00126.2023.
Agbaje AO. Does arterial stiffness mediate or suppress the associations of blood pressure with cardiac structure and function in adolescents?. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. June 1 2023;324(6):H776-H781. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00094.2023.
Agbaje AO. Associations of accelerometer-based sedentary time, light physical activity and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with resting cardiac structure and function in adolescents according to sex, fat mass, lean mass, BMI, and hypertensive status. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2023 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/sms.14365. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37035905.
Agbaje AO. Longitudinal Left Ventricular Mass Indexing for DEXA-Measured Lean Mass and Fat Mass: Novel Normative Reference Centiles in Post-Pubertal Adolescents and Young Adults. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 2023, Apr 1;324(4):H571-H577. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00045.2023
Agbaje AO, Barker AR, Tuomainen TP. Cumulative muscle mass and blood pressure but not fat mass drives arterial stiffness and carotid intima-media thickness progression in the young population and is unrelated to vascular organ damage. Hypertension Research April 1 2023;46:984–999. doi: 10.1038/s41440-022-01065-1.
Agbaje AO. Elevated Blood Pressure and Worsening Cardiac Damage During Adolescence. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2023 Mar 3:S0022-3476(23)00132-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.02.018.
Agbaje AO, Zachariah JP, Bamsa O, Odili AN, and Tuomainen T-P. Cumulative insulin resistance and hyperglycaemia with arterial stiffness and carotid IMT progression in 1779 adolescents: A 9-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism 2023 Mar 1;324(3):E268-E278. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00008.2023
Agbaje AO, Barmi S, Sansum KM, Baynard T, Barker AR, and Tuomainen T-P. Temporal longitudinal associations of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and carotid intima-media thickness with resting heart rate and inflammation in youth. Journal of Applied Physiology 2023 Mar 1;134(3):657-666. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00701.2022
Agbaje AO, Lloyd-Jones DM, Magnussen CG, Tuomainen T-P. Cumulative Dyslipidemia with Arterial Stiffness and Carotid IMT Progression in Asymptomatic Adolescents: A Simulated Intervention Longitudinal Study Using Temporal Inverse Allocation Model. Atherosclerosis Jan 1 2023;364:39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.11.011
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Agbaje AO. Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adolescence: A Telescope into Future Cardiovascular Health. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2022 Dec 13:zwac298. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwac298.
Andrew O Agbaje, Justin P Zachariah, and Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen. Arterial Stiffness and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression Preceding Worsening Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Diastolic Dysfunction in Youth: A Temporal Causal Longitudinal Study. Circulation 2022, Oct 30. doi/10.1161/circ.146.suppl_1.13679
Agbaje AO. To prevent hypertension in Africans: do we need to eat more vegetables? Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2022 Oct 10:zwac233. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwac233.
A O Agbaje, D M Lloyd-Jones, C G Magnussen, T P Tuomainen. Cumulative dyslipidaemia from mid-adolescence through young adulthood with carotid intima-media thickness progression: a 9-year longitudinal study. European Heart Journal, 2022 Oct 2:43(Supplement_2,); ehac544.2350, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2350
A O Agbaje, S Barmi, K M Sansum, T Baynard, A R Barker, T P Tuomainen. Does arterial stiffness progression temporally precede higher low-grade inflammation in adolescents? Causal longitudinal evidence using auto-regressive cross-lagged structural equation models. European Heart Journal, 2022 Oct 2:43(Supplement_2,);ehac544.2247. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2247
A O Agbaje, D M Lloyd-Jones, C G Magnussen, T P Tuomainen. Simulated intervention and optimal timing for attenuating dyslipidaemia-related atherosclerotic progression in the young: a temporal inverse allocation analysis of the ALSPAC cohort. European Heart Journal, 2022 Oct 2:43(Supplement_2,); ehac544.2352, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2352
A O Agbaje, S Barmi, K M Sansum, T Baynard, A R Barker, T P Tuomainen. Temporal causal longitudinal associations of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein with carotid intima-media thickness progression in adolescents: the ALSPAC birth cohort study. European Heart Journal, 2022 Oct 2:43(Supplement_2,); ehac544.2246, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2246
A O Agbaje, J P Zachariah, O Bamsa, A N Odili, T P Tuomainen. Cumulative hyperinsulinemia, hyperglycaemia, and insulin resistance from mid-adolescence through young adulthood with carotid intima-media thickness progression: a 9-year longitudinal study. European Heart Journal, 2022 Oct 2:43(Supplement_2,);ehac544.2414, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2414
A O Agbaje, D M Lloyd-Jones, C G Magnussen, T P Tuomainen. Longitudinal associations of cumulative dyslipidaemia from mid-adolescence through young adulthood with arterial stiffness progression: the ALSPAC study. European Heart Journal, 2022 Oct 2:43(Supplement_2,);ehac544.2351, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac544.2351
Agbaje AO. Mediating role of body composition and insulin resistance on the association of arterial stiffness with blood pressure among adolescents: The ALSPAC study. Front. Cardiovasc. Med. 2022: 9:939125. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.939125
Agbaje AO. Arterial stiffness precedes hypertension and metabolic risks in youth: a review. J Hypertens. 2022 Oct 1;40(10):1887-1896. . doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000003239.
Agbaje AO, Barker AR, Mitchell GF, Tuomainen TP. Effect of Arterial Stiffness and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression on the Risk of Dysglycemia, Insulin Resistance, and Dyslipidemia: a Temporal Causal Longitudinal Study. Hypertension. 2022 Mar;79(3):667-678. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18754.
Agbaje AO, Barker AR, Tuomainen TP. Effects of Arterial Stiffness and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression on the Risk of Overweight/Obesity and Elevated Blood Pressure/Hypertension: a Cross-Lagged Cohort Study. Hypertension. 2022 Jan;79(1):159-169. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18449.
Agbaje AO, Barker AR, Tuomainen TP. Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Fat Mass, and Cardiometabolic Health with Endothelial Function, Arterial Elasticity, and Stiffness. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2022 Jan 1;54(1):141-152. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002757.
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- European Society of Cardiology, France
- American Heart Association, Dallas, US
- European Atherosclerosis Society, Sweden
- Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology (Artery Society), UK
- American Physiology Society, US
- American College of Sports Medicine, Indianapolis, US
- North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine, Canada/US
- International Epidemiology Association, US
- International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Sweden
- Finnish Epidemiology Society, Finland
Keywords
Publications
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Adolescents cholesterol passport: a universal pediatric lipid screening tool to combat atherosclerosis—the world's deadliest scourge
Agbaje, Andrew O. 2023. Frontiers in pediatrics. 11: . 1228483 -
Arterial Stiffness Preceding Metabolic Syndrome in 3862 Adolescents: A Mediation and Temporal Causal Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study
Agbaje, Andrew O. 2023. American journal of physiology : heart and circulatory physiology. 324: H905-H911 -
Arterial stiffness but not carotid intima-media thickness progression precedes premature structural and functional cardiac damage in youth: A 7-year temporal and mediation longitudinal study
Agbaje, Andrew O; Zachariah, Justin P; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka. 2023. Atherosclerosis. 380: -
Associations of accelerometer‐based sedentary time, light physical activity and moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity with resting cardiac structure and function in adolescents according to sex, fat mass, lean mass, BMI, and hypertensive status
Agbaje, Andrew O. 2023. Scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports. 33: 1399-1411 -
Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adolescence: A Telescope into Future Cardiovascular Health
Agbaje, Andrew O. 2023. European journal of preventive cardiology. 30: 404-406 -
Cumulative dyslipidemia with arterial stiffness and carotid IMT progression in asymptomatic adolescents: A simulated intervention longitudinal study using temporal inverse allocation model
Agbaje, Andrew O.; Lloyd-Jones, Donald M.; Magnussen, Costan G.; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka. 2023. Atherosclerosis. 364: 39-48 -
Cumulative effect of accelerometer-based moderate-to-vigorous physical activity from childhood through young adulthood on carotid intima-media thickness progression: The ALSPAC birth cohort study
Agbaje, A. 2023. Atherosclerosis -
Cumulative insulin resistance and hyperglycaemia with arterial stiffness and carotid IMT progression in 1779 adolescents: A 9-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study
Agbaje, Andrew O; Zachariah, Justin P; Bamsa, Olutola; Odili, Augustine N; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka. 2023. American journal of physiology : endocrinology and metabolism. 324: E268-E278 -
Does arterial stiffness mediate or suppress the associations of blood pressure with cardiac structure and function in adolescents?
Agbaje, Andrew O. 2023. American journal of physiology : heart and circulatory physiology. 324: H776-H781 -
Elevated Blood Pressure and Worsening Cardiac Damage During Adolescence
Agbaje, Andrew O. 2023. Journal of pediatrics. 257: