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  • 2015 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Bruce Neal is affiliated with the George Institute for Global Health in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a wide range of topics within medicine, focusing primarily on endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, public health, and cardiology.

Their published work includes numerous papers on subjects related to diabetes treatment, sodium intake, nutritional studies, and blood pressure management. Key recurring themes in their research include:

  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Sodium Intake and Health
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Diabetes Management and Research

Bruce Neal has published extensively in major journals, including:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
  • UNC Libraries
  • Circulation

Among their significant papers are:

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019 (2020), Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis (2021), The Lancet
  • Impact of diabetes on the effects of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors on kidney outcomes: collaborative meta-analysis of large placebo-controlled trials (2022), The Lancet
  • Effect of Salt Substitution on Cardiovascular Events and Death (2021), New England Journal of Medicine
  • Effect of dose and duration of reduction in dietary sodium on blood pressure levels: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials (2020), BMJ

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bruce Neal include:

  • Kenneth W. Mahaffey
  • Vlado Perkovic
  • Hiddo J.L. Heerspink
  • Meg Jardine
  • Clare Arnott

The main field of study for Bruce Neal is medicine, with a publication count of 537 works. Their subfields feature concentrations in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism (137 publications), public health (132), cardiology and cardiovascular medicine (78), nutrition and dietetics (76), and surgery (55).

Bruce Neal was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study

    Gregory A. Roth;George A. Mensah;Catherine O. Johnson;Giovanni Addolorato

  • Intensive blood glucose control and vascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.

    Anushka Patel;Stephen MacMahon;John Chalmers

  • Canagliflozin and cardiovascular and renal events in type 2 diabetes

    Bruce Neal;Vlado Perkovic;Vlado Perkovic;Kenneth W. Mahaffey;Dick de Zeeuw

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Boris Bikbov;Caroline A. Purcell;Andrew S. Levey;Mari Smith

  • 1999 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION-INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HYPERTENSION GUIDELINES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HYPERTENSION

    M. Alderman;K. Arakawa;L. Beilin;J. Chalmers

  • 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

  • Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy

    Vlado Perkovic;Vlado Perkovic;Meg J. Jardine;Meg J. Jardine;Bruce Neal;Bruce Neal;Bruce Neal;Severine Bompoint

  • Randomised trial of a perindopril-based blood-pressure-lowering regimen among 6105 individuals with previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack

    S. MacMahon;B. Neal;C. Tzourio;A. Rodgers

  • Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015

    Gregory A. Roth;Catherine Johnson;Amanuel Abajobir;Foad Abd-Allah

  • The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin plus ezetimibe in patients with chronic kidney disease (Study of Heart and Renal Protection): a randomised placebo-controlled trial

    Colin Baigent;Martin J Landray;Christina Reith;Jonathan Emberson

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Patrick Liu;Gregory A. Roth;Marie Ng

  • Effects of ACE inhibitors, calcium antagonists, and other blood-pressure-lowering drugs: results of prospectively designed overviews of randomised trials. Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration

    B Neal;S MacMahon;N Chapman

  • CPAP for Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

    R. D. McEvoy;N. A. Antic;E. Heeley;Y. Luo

  • Worldwide access to treatment for end-stage kidney disease: a systematic review.

    Thaminda Liyanage;Thaminda Liyanage;Toshiharu Ninomiya;Vivekanand Jha;Vivekanand Jha;Vivekanand Jha;Bruce Neal

  • Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries

    Rob Moodie;David Stuckler;Carlos Monteiro;Nick Sheron

  • Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy.

    Rory Collins;Christina Reith;Jonathan Emberson;Jane Armitage

  • Severe Hypoglycemia and Risks of Vascular Events and Death

    Sophia Zoungas;Sophia Zoungas;Anushka Patel;John Chalmers;Bastiaan E. de Galan;Bastiaan E. de Galan

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic George Institute for Global Health
John Chalmers
John Chalmers University of New South Wales
Stephen MacMahon
Stephen MacMahon University of Oxford
Anushka Patel
Anushka Patel University of New South Wales
Kenneth W. Mahaffey
Kenneth W. Mahaffey Stanford University
Sophia Zoungas
Sophia Zoungas Monash University
Hiddo J.L. Heerspink
Hiddo J.L. Heerspink University of Groningen
Anthony Rodgers
Anthony Rodgers University of New South Wales
Dick de Zeeuw
Dick de Zeeuw University of Groningen

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