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Allan Flyvbjerg

Allan Flyvbjerg

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
41170
World Ranking
6764
National Ranking
70

Overview

Allan Flyvbjerg is affiliated with the Steno Diabetes Center in Denmark and focuses research efforts primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases; Regulation of Appetite and Obesity; Heart Failure Treatment and Management; Diabetes Treatment and Management; Lipid metabolism and disorders; Electrolyte and hormonal disorders; and Diet and metabolism studies.

Recent publications by Allan Flyvbjerg include the following papers:

  • The impact of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist liraglutide on natriuretic peptides in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction with and without type 2 diabetes, 2020, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
  • Adiponectin, IGFBP-1 and -2 are independent predictors in forecasting prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, 2023, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Heart rate increases in liraglutide treated chronic heart failure patients: association with clinical parameters and adverse events, 2020, Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
  • Circulating 3-hydroxy butyrate predicts mortality in patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, 2024, ESC Heart Failure
  • The pattern-recognition molecule H-ficolin in relation to diabetic kidney disease, mortality, and cardiovascular events in type 1 diabetes, 2021, Scientific Reports

Flyvbjerg frequently collaborates with other researchers including Roni Nielsen, Anders Jorsal, Finn Gustafsson, Henrik Wiggers, and Lise Tarnow.

Their research appears consistently in venues like Frontiers in Endocrinology, Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, ESC Heart Failure, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, and Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

    Lars Rydén;Eberhard Standl;Małgorzata Bartnik;Greet Van den Berghe

  • The Effects of Insulin-Like Growth Factors on Tumorigenesis and Neoplastic Growth

    Hasnain M. Khandwala;Ian E. Mccutcheon;Allan Flyvbjerg;Keith E. Friend

  • The effects of intermittent or continuous energy restriction on weight loss and metabolic disease risk markers: a randomized trial in young overweight women

    Michelle N. Harvie;Mary Pegington;Mark P. Mattson;Jan Frystyk

  • Plasma Adiponectin, Body Mass Index, and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

    Caroline Kistorp;Jens Faber;Søren Galatius;Finn Gustafsson

  • Deletion, but not antagonism, of the mouse growth hormone receptor results in severely decreased body weights, insulin, and insulin-like growth factor I levels and increased life span.

    Karen T. Coschigano;Amy N. Holland;Markus E. Riders;Edward O. List

  • Coordinated collagen and muscle protein synthesis in human patella tendon and quadriceps muscle after exercise

    Benjamin F. Miller;Jens L. Olesen;Mette Hansen;Simon Døssing

  • Obesity and cancer risk: the role of the insulin-IGF axis.

    Andrew G. Renehan;Jan Frystyk;Allan Flyvbjerg

  • Effect of liraglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue, on left ventricular function in stable chronic heart failure patients with and without diabetes (LIVE)—a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

    Anders Jorsal;Caroline Micheala Nervil Kistorp;Pernille Holmager;Rasmus Stilling Tougaard;Rasmus Stilling Tougaard

  • Fatty liver is associated with insulin resistance, risk of coronary heart disease, and early atherosclerosis in a large European population.

    Amalia Gastaldelli;Michaela Kozakova;Kurt Højlund;Allan Flyvbjerg

  • From hyperglycemia to diabetic kidney disease: the role of metabolic, hemodynamic, intracellular factors and growth factors/cytokines.

    Bieke F. Schrijvers;An S. De Vriese;Allan Flyvbjerg

  • Mesenchymal stem cell ingrowth and differentiation on coralline hydroxyapatite scaffolds.

    Tina Mygind;Maik Stiehler;Anette Baatrup;Haisheng Li

  • Amelioration of Long-Term Renal Changes in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Mice by a Neutralizing Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Antibody

    Allan Flyvbjerg;Frederik Dagnæs-Hansen;An S. De Vriese;Bieke F. Schrijvers;Bieke F. Schrijvers

  • Prevention and early detection of vascular complications of diabetes

    Sally M Marshall;Allan Flyvbjerg

  • Textbook of diabetes

    Richard I. G. Holt;Clive S. Cockram;Allan Flyvbjerg;Barry J. Goldstein

  • Correlation of the leptin:adiponectin ratio with measures of insulin resistance in non-diabetic individuals.

    F. M. Finucane;J. Luan;N. J. Wareham;S. J. Sharp

  • The role of the complement system in diabetic nephropathy

    Allan Flyvbjerg

  • The Metabolic Syndrome Is Frequent in Klinefelter’s Syndrome and Is Associated With Abdominal Obesity and Hypogonadism

    Anders Bojesen;Kurt Kristensen;Niels H. Birkebaek;Jens Fedder

  • Long-Term AICAR Administration Reduces Metabolic Disturbances and Lowers Blood Pressure in Rats Displaying Features of the Insulin Resistance Syndrome

    Esben S. Buhl;Niels Jessen;Rasmus Pold;Thomas Ledet

  • Serum Adiponectin Is a Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease: A Population-Based 10-Year Follow-Up Study in Elderly Men

    Jan Frystyk;Christian Berne;Lars Berglund;Karin Jensevik

  • Changes in muscle size and MHC composition in response to resistance exercise with heavy and light loading intensity

    Lars Holm;Søren Reitelseder;Troels Gravers Pedersen;Simon Doessing

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Frystyk
Jan Frystyk Odense University Hospital
Hans Ørskov
Hans Ørskov Aarhus University Hospital
Lise Tarnow
Lise Tarnow Steno Diabetes Center
Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen
Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen Aarhus University Hospital
Michael Kjaer
Michael Kjaer University of Copenhagen
Steffen Thiel
Steffen Thiel Aarhus University
Steen B. Pedersen
Steen B. Pedersen Aarhus University Hospital
Per-Henrik Groop
Per-Henrik Groop University of Helsinki
Torbjørn Omland
Torbjørn Omland Akershus University Hospital
Bjørn Richelsen
Bjørn Richelsen Aarhus University

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