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Carol Forsblom is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular focus on endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, genetics, and nephrology.

The main areas of study for Forsblom include diabetes management and research, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, diabetes and associated disorders, diabetes treatment and management, cardiovascular function and risk factors, and retinal diseases and treatments.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Peripheral Artery Disease, 2021, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine
  • Remnant cholesterol predicts progression of diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy in type 1 diabetes, 2021, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Comparison of urinary extracellular vesicle isolation methods for transcriptomic biomarker research in diabetic kidney disease, 2020, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • Genome-wide meta-analysis and omics integration identifies novel genes associated with diabetic kidney disease, 2022, Diabetologia
  • Every Fifth Individual With Type 1 Diabetes Suffers From an Additional Autoimmune Disease: A Finnish Nationwide Study, 2020, Diabetes Care

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Forsblom include:

  • Per-Henrik Groop
  • Valma Harjutsalo
  • Niina Sandholm
  • Erkka Valo
  • Emma H. Dahlström

Forsblom frequently publishes in several venues, with the highest number of publications in:

  • Diabetes Care
  • Scientific Reports
  • Diabetes
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diabetologia

Best Publications

  • Clinical and genetic characteristics of type 2 diabetes with and without GAD antibodies.

    T. Tuomi;A. Carlsson;Haiyan Li;Bo Isomaa

  • The Presence and Severity of Chronic Kidney Disease Predicts All-Cause Mortality in Type 1 Diabetes

    Per Henrik Groop;Per Henrik Groop;Merlin C. Thomas;John L. Moran;Johan Wadèn;Johan Wadèn

  • Metabolomics Reveals Signature of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Diabetic Kidney Disease

    Kumar Sharma;Bethany Karl;Anna V. Mathew;Jon A. Gangoiti

  • Metabolic Consequences of a Family History of NIDDM (The Botnia Study): Evidence for Sex-Specific Parental Effects

    Leif Groop;Carol Forsblom;Mikko Lehtovirta;Tlinamaija Tuomi

  • Metabolic Syndrome in Type 1 Diabetes: Association with diabetic nephropathy and glycemic control (the FinnDiane study)

    Lena M. Thorn;Lena M. Thorn;Carol Forsblom;Carol Forsblom;Johan Fagerudd;Johan Fagerudd;Merlin C. Thomas

  • Bacterial Endotoxin Activity in Human Serum Is Associated With Dyslipidemia, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, and Chronic Inflammation

    Mariann I. Lassenius;Kirsi H. Pietiläinen;Kati Kaartinen;Pirkko J. Pussinen

  • Mapping of a gene for type 2 diabetes associated with an insulin secretion defect by a genome scan in Finnish families.

    Melanie M. Mahtani;Elisabeth Widén;Elisabeth Widén;Markku Lehto;Jeffrey Thomas

  • The Association Between Dietary Sodium Intake, ESRD, and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

    Merlin C. Thomas;John Moran;Carol Forsblom;Carol Forsblom;Valma Harjutsalo

  • Insulin resistance, hypertension and microalbuminuria in patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus

    L. Groop;A. Ekstrand;C. Forsblom;E. Widén

  • Diabetic nephropathy is associated with low-grade inflammation in Type 1 diabetic patients

    M. Saraheimo;A.-M. Teppo;C. Forsblom;C. Forsblom;J. Fagerudd;J. Fagerudd

  • Temporal changes in the frequencies of HLA genotypes in patients with Type 1 diabetes--indication of an increased environmental pressure?

    R. Hermann;R. Hermann;M. Knip;M. Knip;R. Veijola;O. Simell;O. Simell

  • A1C Variability Predicts Incident Cardiovascular Events, Microalbuminuria, and Overt Diabetic Nephropathy in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

    Johan Wadén;Carol Forsblom;Lena M. Thorn;Daniel Gordin

  • Characterization of the MODY3 phenotype. Early-onset diabetes caused by an insulin secretion defect.

    M Lehto;T Tuomi;M M Mahtani;E Widén

  • New susceptibility loci associated with kidney disease in type 1 diabetes.

    Niina Sandholm;Niina Sandholm;Rany M. Salem;Rany M. Salem;Amy Jayne McKnight;Eoin P. Brennan

  • Circulating ACE2 activity is increased in patients with type 1 diabetes and vascular complications

    Aino Soro-Paavonen;Daniel Gordin;Carol Forsblom;Milla Rosengard-Barlund

  • Chronic diabetic complications in patients with MODY3 diabetes

    B. Isomaa;M. Henricsson;M. Lehto;C. Forsblom

  • Mechanisms of disease: Pathway-selective insulin resistance and microvascular complications of diabetes.

    Per-Henrik Groop;Carol Forsblom;Merlin C Thomas

  • Predictive value of microalbuminuria in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes of long duration.

    C. M. Forsblom;P. H. Groop;A. Ekstrand;L. C. Groop

  • Heritability of proliferative diabetic retinopathy

    Kustaa Hietala;Carol Forsblom;Paula Summanen;Per-Henrik Groop

  • Association Testing of Previously Reported Variants in a Large Case-Control Meta-analysis of Diabetic Nephropathy

    Winfred W. Williams;Rany M. Salem;Rany M. Salem;Amy Jayne McKnight;Niina Sandholm;Niina Sandholm

Frequent Co-Authors

Per-Henrik Groop
Per-Henrik Groop University of Helsinki
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Maija Wessman
Maija Wessman University of Helsinki
Lise Tarnow
Lise Tarnow Steno Diabetes Center
Peter Rossing
Peter Rossing University of Copenhagen
Michel Marre
Michel Marre Université Paris Cité
Jose C. Florez
Jose C. Florez Harvard University
Mika Ala-Korpela
Mika Ala-Korpela University of Oulu
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Merlin C. Thomas
Merlin C. Thomas Monash University

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