Francisco José Mardones Restat, Chilean pediatrician (Santiago 20 August 1919 – Santiago 13 April 2009)

Son of engineer Francisco Mardones Otaiza and brother of biochemist Jorge Mardones Restat

Authored over 160 papers including books and reviews

Table of the distribution of weights of newborn infants. Rev. Chil. Pediat. 57(1):97, 1986

Developed an instrument for predicting deterioration of infant growth using 2 sets of indicators

With G. Jones. Prediction of poor infant growth. Bull. Pan Am. Health Org. 21(4):341-57, 1987

Showed that classification and regression tree are the best methodologies of screening instrument for the prediction for infants growth failure

With Gloria Jones, F. Mardones Santander, N. Dachs, J. Habicht & M. Díaz. Growth failure prediction in Chile. Intern. J. Epidemiol. 18 (4 Suppl 2):44-9, 1989

Developed instruments to predict the unsatisfactory growth of children (weight by age)

With G. Jones & M. Díaz. From anthropometric evaluation to the prediction of nutritional facts at infancy. Enfoques Aten. Prim. 5(1):3-10, 1990

Prenatal and perinatal healthcare: a diagnostic instrument (1991)

Developed a logistic regression model that permit estimates the probability of neonatal death

With F. Mardones Santander, N. Dachs, G. Icaza, M. Díaz & B.R. Burkhalter, Un instrumento de diagnostico que relaciona el peso al nacer y la edad gestacional de parto con la mortalidade neonatal. Medicina 16(4):5-14, 1994

HONOURS

Honorary Member, Polish Academy of Medicine

International Prize of Pediatrics, Argentina (1974)

Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal, Internantional Humanitarian Medical Society (1998)

His son, Francisco José Mardones Santander, Chilean epidemiologist and neonatalogist (Santiago 23 March 1946 –

Contributions

With C. Albala, A. Infante, J. Salinas & F. Vio. Nutritional impact of a new infant food (soup-purée). Rev. Med. Chile 112(3):277-82, 1984

Showed that classification and regression tree are the best methodologies of screening instrument for the prediction for infants growth failure

With Gloria Jones, F. Mardones Santander, N. Dachs, J. Habicht & M. Díaz. Growth failure prediction in Chile. Intern. J. Epidemiol. 18 (4 Suppl 2):44-9, 1989

Developed a logistic regression model that permit estimates the probability of neonatal death

With F. Mardones Santander, N. Dachs, G. Icaza, M. Díaz & B.R. Burkhalter, Un instrumento de diagnostico que relaciona el peso al nacer y la edad gestacional de parto con la mortalidade neonatal. Medicina 16(4):5-14, 1994

With P. Rosso. Design of a weight gain chart for pregnant Woman. Rev. Med. Chile 125:1437-48, 1997

With P. Rosso. A weight gain chart for pregnant women designed in Chile. Matern. Child Nutr. 1(2):77-90, 2005

Papers with more than 100 citations (about 5,000 citations by Google Scholar in mid 2026)

With B. Zhou, A.W. Rayner, E.W. Gregg, K.E. Sheffer, R.M. Carrillo Larco, J.E. Bennett et al. Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment of 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1,108 population representative studies with 141 million participants. The Lancet 404(10467):2077-93, 2024

With J.E. Lawn, E.O.Ohuma, E. Bradley, L. Suarez Idueta, E. Hazel, Y.B. Okwaraji et al. Small babies, big risks: global estimates of prevalence and mortality for vulnerable newborns to scale rate change and improve counting. The Lancet 401(10389):1707-19, 2023

With A. Estrada-Restrepo, S.L. Restrepo-Mesa & N. del C. Ceballos Fería. Factores maternos relacionados con el peso al nacer del recién-nacidos a término, Colombia, 2002-2011. Cad. Saude Publ. 32 (2016)

With C. Scott, C.T. Andersen, N. Valdez, E.A. Nohr, L. Poston, K.C. Quack-Loetscher & b. Adams. No global consensus: a cross-sectional survey of maternal weight policies. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 14(1):167, 2014

With X. Wortsman, J. Wortsman, L. Matsuoka, T. Saavedra, S. Saavedra, R. Guerrero & Y. Corredoira. Sonography in pathologies of scalp and hair. Brit. J. Radiol. 85(1013):647-55, 2012

With P. Ravasco & H. Anderson. Métodos de valoración del estado nutricional. Nutr. Hosp. 25:57-66, 2010

With G. Salazar, P. Rosso & L. Villarroel. Maternal body composition near term and birth weight. Obst. Gynec. 91(6):873-7, 1998

With P. Rosso, A. Stekel, E. Ahumada, S. Llaguno, F.Pizarro, J. Salinas, I. Vial & T. Walter. Effect of a milk-based food supplement on maternal nutritional status and fetal growth in underwight Chilean women. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 47(3):413-9, 1988

Papers in top journals

With B. Zhou, A.W. Rayner, E.W. Gregg, K.E. Sheffer, R.M. Carrillo Larco, J.E. Bennett et al. Worldwide trends in diabetes prevalence and treatment of 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 1,108 population representative studies with 141 million participants. The Lancet 404(10467):2077-93, 2024

With J.E. Lawn, E.O.Ohuma, E. Bradley, L. Suarez Idueta, E. Hazel, Y.B. Okwaraji et al. Small babies, big risks: global estimates of prevalence and mortality for vulnerable newborns to scale rate change and improve counting. The Lancet 401(10389):1707-19, 2023

With B.J. Krause, I. Carrasco-Wong, A. Domínguez, P. Arnaiz, M. Farías, S. Barja & P. Casanello. Micro-RNAs Let7 and 126 in plasma as markers of metabolic dysfunction in 10 to 12 years old children. PLoS One 10(6), 2015

With P. Rosso, A. Stekel, E. Ahumada, S. Llaguno, F.Pizarro, J. Salinas, I. Vial & T. Walter. Effect of a milk-based food supplement on maternal nutritional status and fetal growth in underwight Chilean women. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 47(3):413-9, 1988