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Carolyn S.P. Lam is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Other notable subfields of study include Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Epidemiology.

Their work concentrates on several main topics, which include:

  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension

Carolyn S.P. Lam's recent significant publications include:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Dapagliflozin in Heart Failure with Mildly Reduced or Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2022, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • 2023 Focused Update of the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2023, European Heart Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • John J.V. McMurray
  • Scott D. Solomon
  • Pardeep S. Jhund
  • Muthiah Vaduganathan
  • Brian Claggett

Carolyn S.P. Lam has published extensively in several key journals within cardiovascular research and related fields. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • European Heart Journal
  • JACC Heart Failure

Best Publications

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure.

    Theresa A McDonagh;Marco Metra;Marianna Adamo;Roy S Gardner

  • The global health and economic burden of hospitalizations for heart failure: lessons learned from hospitalized heart failure registries.

    Andrew P. Ambrosy;Gregg C. Fonarow;Javed Butler;Ovidiu Chioncel

  • Angiotensin-Neprilysin inhibition in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

    Scott D. Solomon;John J.V. McMurray;Inder S. Anand;Junbo Ge

  • How to diagnose heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: the HFA-PEFF diagnostic algorithm: a consensus recommendation from the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    Burkert Pieske;Carsten Tschöpe;Rudolf A de Boer;Alan G Fraser

  • Pulmonary Hypertension in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Community-Based Study

    Carolyn S.P. Lam;Véronique L. Roger;Richard J. Rodeheffer;Barry A. Borlaug

  • Exercise Hemodynamics Enhance Diagnosis of Early Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Barry A. Borlaug;Rick A. Nishimura;Paul Sorajja;Carolyn S.P. Lam

  • Vericiguat in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction

    Paul W Armstrong;Burkert Pieske;Kevin J Anstrom;Justin Ezekowitz

  • Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure: Endorsed by the Canadian Heart Failure Society, Heart Failure Association of India, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and Chinese Heart Failure Association.

    Biykem Bozkurt;Andrew J.S. Coats;Hiroyuki Tsutsui;Ca Magdy Abdelhamid

  • Epidemiology and clinical course of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

    Carolyn S.P. Lam;Erwan Donal;Elisabeth Kraigher-Krainer;Ramachandran S. Vasan

  • Cardiovascular, mortality, and kidney outcomes with GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials

    Naveed Sattar;Matthew M Y Lee;Søren L Kristensen;Kelley R H Branch

  • The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission: reducing the global burden by 2030.

    Birgit Vogel;Monica Acevedo;Yolande Appelman;C Noel Bairey Merz

  • Global cardiovascular reserve dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

    Barry A. Borlaug;Thomas P. Olson;Carolyn S.P. Lam;Kelly S. Flood

  • Cardiac Structure and Ventricular–Vascular Function in Persons With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction From Olmsted County, Minnesota

    Carolyn S.P. Lam;Véronique L. Roger;Richard J. Rodeheffer;Francesca Bursi

  • Noncardiac Comorbidities in Heart Failure With Reduced Versus Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Robert J. Mentz;Jacob P. Kelly;Thomas G. von Lueder;Adriaan A. Voors

  • Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure: A Report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure

    Biykem Bozkurt;Andrew Js Coats;Hiroyuki Tsutsui;Magdy Abdelhamid

  • Sex Differences in Heart Failure

    Carolyn S P Lam;Clare Arnott;Anna L Beale;Chanchal Chandramouli

  • Contractility and ventricular systolic stiffening in hypertensive heart disease insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

    Barry A. Borlaug;Carolyn S.P. Lam;Véronique L. Roger;Richard J. Rodeheffer

  • Age-Associated Increases in Pulmonary Artery Systolic Pressure in the General Population

    Carolyn S.P. Lam;Barry A. Borlaug;Garvan C. Kane;Felicity T. Enders

  • Prevalence and correlates of coronary microvascular dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: PROMIS-HFpEF.

    Sanjiv J. Shah;Carolyn S.P. Lam;Sara Svedlund;Antti Saraste

  • Iron deficiency across chronic inflammatory conditions: International expert opinion on definition, diagnosis, and management

    Maria Domenica Cappellini;Josep Comin-Colet;Angel de Francisco;Axel Dignass

Frequent Co-Authors

Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
A. Mark Richards
A. Mark Richards National University of Singapore
Inder S. Anand
Inder S. Anand University of Minnesota
Scott D. Solomon
Scott D. Solomon Brigham and Women's Hospital
Faiez Zannad
Faiez Zannad University of Lorraine
Burkert Pieske
Burkert Pieske Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen University Medical Center Groningen
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland University of Glasgow
Sanjiv J. Shah
Sanjiv J. Shah Northwestern University

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