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Overview

Bengt-Åke Bengtsson is affiliated with Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with notable work in the subfields of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, ophthalmology, and molecular biology.

Their research topics cover various important areas including:

  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Bengtsson has published scientific papers in several respected journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Endocrinology
  • Growth Hormone & IGF Research
  • Journal of Hypertension

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Increased number of retinal vessels in acromegaly, 2020, European Journal of Endocrinology
  • Effect of growth hormone treatment on circulating levels of NT-proBNP in patients with ischemic heart failure, 2020, Growth Hormone & IGF Research
  • DIGIT PREFERENCE OF SYSTOLIC OR DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE AND THE ASSOCIATION WITH CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS IN PATIENTS WITH TREATED HYPERTENSION IN PRIMARY CARE, 2025, Journal of Hypertension

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bengtsson include:

  • Laila Füchtbauer
  • Daniel S Olsson
  • Eva C Coopmans
  • Lise-Lott Norrman
  • Sebastian Neggers

Best Publications

  • Premature mortality due to cardiovascular disease in hypopituitarism.

    T. Rosén;B.-Å. Bengtsson

  • Consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of growth hormone (GH) deficiency in childhood and adolescence: Summary statement of the GH research society

    Kenneth M. Attie;Bengt Ake Bengtsson;Sandra L. Blethen;Werner Blum

  • Growth hormone and bone.

    Claes Ohlsson;Claes Ohlsson;Bengt-Åke Bengtsson;Olle G. P. Isaksson;Troels T. Andreassen

  • Treatment of adults with growth hormone (GH) deficiency with recombinant human GH.

    B.-Å. Bengtsson;S. Eden;L. Lönn;H. Kvist

  • Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adulthood and the Effects of Growth Hormone Replacement: A Review

    P Carroll;E R Christ;B A Bengtsson;L Carlsson

  • Consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of adults with growth hormone deficiency: Summary statement of the growth hormone research society workshop on adult growth hormone deficiency

    A. Attanasio;K. Attie;R. Baxter;B. A. Bengtsson

  • Epidemiology and long-term survival in acromegaly. A study of 166 cases diagnosed between 1955 and 1984.

    Bengt‐Åke Bengtsson;Staffan Edén;Ingrid Ernest;Anders Odén

  • Growth hormone treatment of abdominally obese men reduces abdominal fat mass, improves glucose and lipoprotein metabolism, and reduces diastolic blood pressure.

    Gudmundur Johannsson;Per Mårin;Lars Lönn;Malin Ottosson

  • Adult growth hormone (GH)-deficient patients demonstrate heterogeneity between childhood onset and adult onset before and during human GH treatment

    Andrea F. Attanasio;Steven W.J. Lamberts;Anna M.C. Matranga;Martin A. Birkett

  • Cardiovascular risk factors in adult patients with growth hormone deficiency

    Thord Rosén;Staffan Edén;Göran Larson;Lars Wilhelmsen

  • Serum insulin‐like growth factor I in a random population sample of men and women: relation to age, sex, smoking habits, coffee consumption and physical activity, blood pressure and concentrations of plasma lipids, fibrinogen, parathyroid hormone and osteocalcin

    Kerstin Landin‐Wllhelmsen;Lars Wllhelmsen;George Lappast;Thord Rosen

  • Decreased psychological well‐being in adult patients with growth hormone deficiency

    Thord Rosén;Lena Wirén;Lars Wilhelmsen;Ingela Wiklund

  • Increased fracture frequency in adult patients with hypopituitarism and GH deficiency

    T Rosen;L Wilhelmsen;K Landin-Wilhelmsen;G Lappas

  • Growth hormone-deficient adults are insulin-resistant

    Jan-Ove Johansson;Jesper Fowelin;Kerstin Landin;Ibe Lager

  • The Influence of Growth Hormone Deficiency, Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Other Aspects of Hypopituitarism on Fracture Rate and Bone Mineral Density

    Christian Wüster;Roger Abs;Bengt-Åke Bengtsson;Helge Bennmarker

  • Responses of the growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor axis to exercise, GH administration, and GH withdrawal in trained adult males: a potential test for GH abuse in sport.

    Jennifer D. Wallace;Ross C. Cuneo;Robert Baxter;Hans Ørskov

  • GH replacement in 1034 growth hormone deficient hypopituitary adults: demographic and clinical characteristics, dosing and safety

    Roger Abs;Bengt‐Åke Bengtsson;Elizabeth Hernberg‐Ståhl;John P. Monson

  • The epidemiology of giant cell arteritis including temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica

    Bengt‐Åke Bengtsson;Bo‐Eric Malmvall

  • Estrogen replacement therapy decreases hyperandrogenicity and improves glucose homeostasis and plasma lipids in postmenopausal women with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

    Björn Andersson;Lars-Åke Mattsson;Lennart Hahn;Per MÅrin

  • Two years of growth hormone (GH) treatment increases bone mineral content and density in hypopituitary patients with adult-onset GH deficiency

    G Johannsson;T Rosén;I Bosaeus;L Sjöström

Frequent Co-Authors

Gudmundur Johannsson
Gudmundur Johannsson Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Lars Sjöström
Lars Sjöström University of Gothenburg
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen
Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Björn Andersson
Björn Andersson Karolinska Institute
Lars Wilhelmsen
Lars Wilhelmsen University of Gothenburg
Per Björntorp
Per Björntorp University of Gothenburg
Lena M. S. Carlsson
Lena M. S. Carlsson University of Gothenburg
Claes Ohlsson
Claes Ohlsson University of Gothenburg
Peter H. Sönksen
Peter H. Sönksen King's College London
Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland
Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland University of Gothenburg

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