Associate Professor Costan Magnussen

Adjunct Associate Professor UniSA Allied Health & Human Performance

email Costan.Magnussen@unisa.edu.au

Research

Research focus

Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology
Human Movement and Sports Science
Medical and Health Sciences
Public Health and Health Services

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included.

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Fraser, BJ, Blizzard, L, Tomkinson, GR, Dwyer, T, Venn, AJ & Magnussen, CG 2025, 'Added predictive value of childhood physical fitness to traditional risk factors for adult cardiovascular disease', European Journal of Preventative Cardiology, online, pp. 1-13. Open access
2025	Ma, S, Liu, X, Lin, R, Yao, Y, Zhao, M, Yu, Y, Magnussen, CG & Xi, B 2025, 'Childhood body size, adulthood adiposity, underlying mechanisms, and risk of incident hypertension: a prospective cohort study of 180,527 participants', BMC Medicine, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-12. Open access
2025	Tomkinson, GR, Lang, JJ, Rubin, L, McGrath, R, Gower, B, Boyle, T, Klug, MG, Mayhew, AJ, Blake, HT, Ortega, FB, Cadenas-Sanchez, C, Magnussen, CG, Fraser, BJ, Kidokoro, T, Liu, Y, Christensen, K & Leong, DP 17 explicit authors and 1 consortia 2025, 'International norms for adult handgrip strength: a systematic review of data on 2.4 million adults aged 20 to 100+years from 69 countries and regions', Journal of Sport and Health Science, vol. 14, article no. 101014, pp. 1-17. Open access
2024	Evans, JT, Buscot, MJ, Fraser, BJ, Juonala, M, Guo, Y, Fernandez, C, Kähönen, M, Sabin, MA, Armstrong, MK, Viikari, JS, Bazzano, LA, Raitakari, OT & Magnussen, CG 2024, 'Life-period associations of body mass index with adult carotid intima-media thickness: the Bogalusa Heart study and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study', Preventive Medicine, vol. 189, pp. 1-7. Open access
2024	Guo, J, Brooklyn, J, Blizzard, L, Schmidt, MD, Dwyer, T, Venn, AJ & Magnussen, CG 2024, 'Tracking of cardiorespiratory fitness from childhood to mid-adulthood', Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 264, article no. 113778, pp. 1-5. Open access
2024	Kartiosuo, N, Raitakari, OT, Juonala, M, Viikari, JS, Sinaiko, AR, Venn, AJ, Jacobs, DR, Urbina, EM, Woo, JG, Steinberger, J, Bazzano, LA, Daniels, SR, Magnussen, CG, Rahimi, K & Dwyer, T 2024, 'Cardiovascular risk factors in childhood and adulthood and cardiovascular disease in middle age', JAMA network open, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1-12. Open access
2024	Kidokoro, T, Kitano, N, Imai, N, Lang, JJ, Tomkinson, GR & Magnussen, CG 2024, 'Optimal domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviors for blood lipids among Japanese children: a compositional data analysis', Journal of Activity, Sedentary and Sleep Behaviors, vol. 2, article no. 20, pp. 1-12. Open access 9
2024	Stanesby, O, Armstrong, MK, Otahal, P, Goode, JP, Fraser, BJ, Negishi, K, Kidokoro, T, Winzenberg, T, Juonala, M, Wu, F, Kelly, RK, Xi, B, Viikari, JS, Raitakari, OT, Daniels, SR, Tomkinson, GR & Magnussen, CG 2024, 'Tracking of serum lipid levels from childhood to adulthood: systematic review and meta-analysis', Atherosclerosis, vol. 391, article no. 117482, pp. 1-12. Open access 5
2024	Stanesby, O, Zhou, Z, Fonseca, R, Kidokoro, T, Otahal, P, Fraser, BJ, Wu, F, Juonala, M, Viikari, JS, Raitakari, OT, Tomkinson, GR & Magnussen, CG 2024, 'Tracking of apolipoprotein B levels measured in childhood and adolescence: systematic review and meta-analysis', European Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 183, no. 2, pp. 569-580. Open access 1
2023	Fraser, BJ, Blizzard, L, Tomkinson, GR, McGrath, R, Dwyer, T, Venn, AJ & Magnussen, CG 2023, 'Tracking handgrip strength asymmetry from childhood to mid-life', Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child, vol. 112, no. 11, pp. 2408-2417. Open access 1
2020	Lycett, K, Juonala, M, Magnussen, CG, Norrish, D, Mensah, FK, Liu, R, Clifford, SA, Carlin, JB, Olds, T, Saffery, R, Kerr, JA, Ranganathan, S, Baur, LA, Sabin, MA, Cheung, M, Dwyer, T, Liu, M, Burgner, D & Wake, M 2020, 'Body mass index from early to late childhood and cardiometabolic measurements at 11 to 12 years', Pediatrics, vol. 146, no.2, article no. e20193666, pp. 1-10. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute	AUSTRALIA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Fudan University	CHINA
McMaster University	CANADA
Meiji Yasuda Life Foundation of Health and Welfare	JAPAN
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
Nippon Sport Science University	JAPAN
Primary Health Tasmania Limited	AUSTRALIA
Qingdao University	CHINA
Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria	AUSTRALIA
Shandong University	CHINA
Shanghai University of Sport	CHINA
Tampere University	FINLAND
Technical University of Liberec	CZECH REPUBLIC
Tokyo Kasei University	JAPAN
Tulane University	UNITED STATES
Turku University Hospital	FINLAND
University of Cincinnati	UNITED STATES
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	UNITED STATES
University of Colorado Denver	UNITED STATES
University of Georgia	UNITED STATES
University of Granada	SPAIN
University of Iowa	UNITED STATES
University of Melbourne	AUSTRALIA
University of Minnesota Medical School	UNITED STATES
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	UNITED STATES
University of North Dakota	UNITED STATES
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Southern Denmark	DENMARK
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania	AUSTRALIA
University of Turku	FINLAND

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Associate Professor Costan Magnussen

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