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Overview

Annamaria Colao is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. The primary field of research for this scientist is Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields including Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Surgery.

The research topics covered by Annamaria Colao encompass a range of areas, with notable concentration in Diet and metabolism studies, Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments, Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors, Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments, and Lung Cancer Research Studies.

Frequent publication venues where the scientist's work has appeared include Endocrine Abstracts, Nutrients, L Endocrinologo, Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, and Journal of Translational Medicine.

Colao has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Giovanna Muscogiuri, Luigi Barrea, Silvia Savastano, Rosario Pivonello, and Ludovica Verde.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist are:

  • Nutritional recommendations for CoVID-19 quarantine, 2020, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • European Guidelines for Obesity Management in Adults with a Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2021, Obesity Facts
  • Commentary: Obesity: The "Achilles heel" for COVID-19?, 2020, Metabolism
  • School as ideal setting to promote health and wellbeing among young people, 2020, Health Promotion Perspectives
  • Anti-Inflammatory Nutrients and Obesity-Associated Metabolic-Inflammation: State of the Art and Future Direction, 2022, Nutrients

Best Publications

  • Systemic complications of acromegaly: epidemiology, pathogenesis, and management.

    Annamaria Colao;Diego Ferone;Paolo Marzullo;Gaetano Lombardi

  • Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Katherine Esposito;Paolo Chiodini;Annamaria Colao;Andrea Lenzi

  • Guidelines of the Pituitary Society for the diagnosis and management of prolactinomas

    Felipe F. Casanueva;Mark E. Molitch;Janet A. Schlechte;Roger Abs

  • Treatment of Adrenocorticotropin-Dependent Cushing’s Syndrome: A Consensus Statement

    B.M.K. Biller;Ashley Barry Grossman;P.M. Stewart;Shlomo Melmed

  • Advances in the treatment of prolactinomas.

    Mary P. Gillam;Mark E. Molitch;Gaetano Lombardi;Annamaria Colao

  • Guidelines for Acromegaly Management: An Update

    S. Melmed;A. Colao;A. Barkan;Mark E Molitch

  • Surgical complications associated with the endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach for pituitary adenomas

    Paolo Cappabianca;Luigi Maria Cavallo;AnnaMaria Colao;Enrico de Divitiis

  • A 12-Month Phase 3 Study of Pasireotide in Cushing's Disease

    Annamaria Colao;Stephan Petersenn;John Newell-Price;James W Findling

  • Nutritional recommendations for CoVID-19 quarantine.

    Giovanna Muscogiuri;Luigi Barrea;Silvia Savastano;Annamaria Colao

  • Persistence of increased cardiovascular risk in patients with Cushing's disease after five years of successful cure.

    Annamaria Colao;Rosario Pivonello;Stefano Spiezia;Antongiulio Faggiano

  • Growth hormone and the heart

    Annamaria Colao;Paolo Marzullo;Carolina Di Somma;Gaetano Lombardi

  • Complications of Cushing's syndrome: state of the art

    Rosario Pivonello;Andrea M Isidori;Maria Cristina De Martino;John Newell-Price;John Newell-Price

  • Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach: outcome analysis of 100 consecutive procedures.

    P. Cappabianca;L. M. Cavallo;A. Colao;M. Del Basso De Caro

  • The Treatment of Cushing's Disease

    Rosario Pivonello;Monica De Leo;Alessia Cozzolino;Annamaria Colao

  • Pasireotide Versus Octreotide in Acromegaly: A Head-to-Head Superiority Study

    A. Colao;M. D. Bronstein;P. Freda;F. Gu

  • Early impairment of endothelial structure and function in young normal-weight women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

    Francesco Orio;Stefano Palomba;Teresa Cascella;Biagio De Simone

  • Withdrawal of Long-Term Cabergoline Therapy for Tumoral and Nontumoral Hyperprolactinemia

    Annamaria Colao;Antonella Di Sarno;Paolo Cappabianca;Carolina Di Somma

  • Cardiovascular risk factors and common carotid artery caliber and stiffness in patients with Cushing's disease during active disease and 1 year after disease remission.

    Antongiulio Faggiano;Rosario Pivonello;Stefano Spiezia;Maria Cristina De Martino

  • Pasireotide versus continued treatment with octreotide or lanreotide in patients with inadequately controlled acromegaly (PAOLA): a randomised, phase 3 trial

    Mônica R Gadelha;Marcello D Bronstein;Thierry Brue;Mihail Coculescu

  • The cardiovascular risk of young women with polycystic ovary syndrome: an observational, analytical, prospective case-control study.

    Francesco Orio;Stefano Palomba;Letizia Spinelli;Teresa Cascella

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaetano Lombardi
Gaetano Lombardi University of Naples Federico II
Rosario Pivonello
Rosario Pivonello University of Naples Federico II
Diego Ferone
Diego Ferone University of Genoa
Stefano Palomba
Stefano Palomba Magna Graecia University
Marco Salvatore
Marco Salvatore Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Paolo Cappabianca
Paolo Cappabianca University of Naples Federico II
Leo J. Hofland
Leo J. Hofland Erasmus University Rotterdam
Steven W. J. Lamberts
Steven W. J. Lamberts Erasmus University Rotterdam
Andrea M. Isidori
Andrea M. Isidori Sapienza University of Rome
Thierry Brue
Thierry Brue Aix-Marseille University

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