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Alexandre C. Pereira

Alexandre C. Pereira

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Medicine

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76
Citations
21417
World Ranking
18772
National Ranking
54

Overview

Alexandre C. Pereira is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields, including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Genetics, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, featuring prominently:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alexandre C. Pereira include:

  • Myosin Sequestration Regulates Sarcomere Function, Cardiomyocyte Energetics, and Metabolism, Informing the Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2020, Circulation)
  • European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)/Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)/Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)/Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS) Expert Consensus Statement on the State of Genetic Testing for Cardiac Diseases (2022, Heart Rhythm)
  • Actionable druggable genome-wide Mendelian randomization identifies repurposing opportunities for COVID-19 (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • A Validated Model for Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Prediction in Pediatric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2020, Circulation)
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy With Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (2020, Circulation)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pereira include:

  • José Eduardo Krieger
  • Paulo A. Lotufo
  • Carolyn Y. Ho
  • Márcio Sommer Bittencourt
  • Sharlene M. Day

Pereira has published extensively in several venues, with the greatest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine
  • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
  • Scientific Reports

In addition to journal articles, Pereira has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Editora IFRN eBooks titled Ensaios dilatométricos em um depósito de argila mole no bairro do Ibura (Recife - PE) in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    G. Aad;E. Abat;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • 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

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Haidong Wang;Kaja M. Abbas;Mitra Abbasifard;Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

  • Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19.

    E. Pairo-Castineira;E. Pairo-Castineira;S. Clohisey;L. Klaric;A. D. Bretherick

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Nancy Fullman;Jamal Yearwood;Solomon M Abay;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Atualização da Diretriz Brasileira de Dislipidemias e Prevenção da Aterosclerose – 2017.

    André Arpad Faludi;Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar;José Francisco Kerr Saraiva;Ana Paula Marte Chacra

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Mohammad Abbasi

  • Genotype and lifetime burden of disease in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy insights from the sarcomeric human cardiomyopathy registry (SHaRe)

    Carolyn Y. Ho;Sharlene M. Day;Euan A. Ashley;Michelle Michels

  • De Novo Copy Number Variants Identify New Genes and Loci in Isolated, Sporadic Tetralogy of Fallot

    Steven C Greenway;Alexandre C Pereira;Jennifer C Lin;Steven R DePalma

Frequent Co-Authors

José Eduardo Krieger
José Eduardo Krieger Universidade de São Paulo
Paulo A. Lotufo
Paulo A. Lotufo Universidade de São Paulo
Isabela M. Benseñor
Isabela M. Benseñor Universidade de São Paulo
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University
Bernardo L. Horta
Bernardo L. Horta Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Christine E. Seidman
Christine E. Seidman Harvard University
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland

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