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Overview

Alain G. Bertoni is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on cardiology, endocrinology, physiology, pulmonary medicine, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, physiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and molecular biology.

Within these areas, their work addresses key topics such as cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiovascular health and risk factors, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, heart failure treatment and management, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, diet and metabolism studies, and diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins.

Alain G. Bertoni has published in prominent venues, including:

  • Circulation
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Recent significant publications include:

  • "Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation" (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • "Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology" (2024, Nature)
  • "Association of Dysanapsis With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Older Adults" (2020, JAMA)
  • "Exercise Intolerance in Older Adults With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction" (2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • "Racial and Ethnic Differences in All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: The MESA Study" (2022, Circulation)

Their collaborative efforts include frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Erin D. Michos, Sanjiv J. Shah, Wendy S. Post, Jerome I. Rotter, and Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui.

Best Publications

  • Benefits of Modest Weight Loss in Improving Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

    Rena R. Wing;Wei Lang;Thomas A. Wadden;Monika Safford

  • Examining a bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and diabetes.

    Sherita Hill Golden;Mariana Lazo;Mercedes Carnethon;Alain G. Bertoni

  • Cardiovascular Health in African Americans: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Mercedes R. Carnethon;Jia Pu;George Howard;Michelle A. Albert

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Association of an intensive lifestyle intervention with remission of type 2 diabetes.

    Edward W. Gregg;Haiying Chen;Lynne E. Wagenknecht;Jeanne M. Clark

  • Heart Failure Prevalence, Incidence, and Mortality in the Elderly With Diabetes

    Alain G. Bertoni;W. Gregory Hundley;Mark W. Massing;Denise E. Bonds

  • Association of weight status with mortality in adults with incident diabetes.

    Mercedes R. Carnethon;Peter John D De Chavez;Mary L. Biggs;Cora E. Lewis

  • Exercise Training for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Impact on Cardiovascular Risk: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Thomas H. Marwick;Matthew D. Hordern;Todd Miller;Deborah A. Chyun

  • Novel Metabolic Risk Factors for Incident Heart Failure and Their Relationship With Obesity. The MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) Study

    Hossein Bahrami;David A. Bluemke;Richard Kronmal;Alain G. Bertoni

  • Dietary intake of saturated fat by food source and incident cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Marcia C de Oliveira Otto;Marcia C de Oliveira Otto;Dariush Mozaffarian;Daan Kromhout;Alain G Bertoni

  • Progression of Coronary Calcium and Incident Coronary Heart Disease Events: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)

    Matthew J. Budoff;Rebekah Young;Victor A. Lopez;Richard A. Kronmal

  • Dyslipidemia Prevalence, Treatment, and Control in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Gender, Ethnicity, and Coronary Artery Calcium

    David C. Goff;Alain G. Bertoni;Holly Kramer;Denise Bonds

  • Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis

    Eleanor Wheeler;Aaron Leong;Ching-Ti Liu;Marie-France Hivert

  • Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

    Anubha Mahajan;Jennifer Wessel;Sara M. Willems;Wei Zhao

  • Effect of a 12-Month Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Hepatic Steatosis in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

    Mariana Lazo;Steven F. Solga;Alena Horska;Susanne Bonekamp

  • Lifestyle Change and Mobility in Obese Adults with Type 2 Diabetes

    W. Jack Rejeski;Edward H. Ip;Alain G. Bertoni;George A. Bray

  • Features of the Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Mellitus as Predictors of Aortic Valve Calcification in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Ronit Katz;Nathan D. Wong;Richard Kronmal;Junichiro Takasu

  • Diabetes and the risk of infection-related mortality in the U.S

    Alain G. Bertoni;Sharon Saydah;Frederick L. Brancati

  • Endogenous Sex Hormones and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Post-Menopausal Women.

    Di Zhao;Eliseo Guallar;Pamela Ouyang;Vinita Subramanya

  • Trans-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

    Mahajan A;Spracklen Cn;Zhang W;Ng Mc

Frequent Co-Authors

Joao A.C. Lima
Joao A.C. Lima Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mercedes R. Carnethon
Mercedes R. Carnethon Northwestern University
David A. Bluemke
David A. Bluemke University of Wisconsin–Madison
Moyses Szklo
Moyses Szklo Johns Hopkins University
David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Matthew J. Budoff
Matthew J. Budoff UCLA Medical Center
Nathan D. Wong
Nathan D. Wong University of California, Irvine
David C. Goff
David C. Goff National Institutes of Health
Sherita Hill Golden
Sherita Hill Golden Johns Hopkins University
Elsayed Z. Soliman
Elsayed Z. Soliman Wake Forest University

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