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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Chi-yuan Hsu is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States and specializes in medical research, particularly in nephrology. Their body of work encompasses various aspects of kidney disease, including chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and renal disease management.

The scientist's research spans the fields of Medicine with a specific focus on several subfields, including:

  • Nephrology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Surgery

Main topics of their work include:

  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Acute Kidney Injury Research
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Renal and Vascular Pathologies
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Renin-Angiotensin System Studies

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Chi-yuan Hsu are:

  • Post-Acute Kidney Injury Proteinuria and Subsequent Kidney Disease Progression, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Association Between Early Recovery of Kidney Function After Acute Kidney Injury and Long-term Clinical Outcomes, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • A prospective cohort study of acute kidney injury and kidney outcomes, cardiovascular events, and death, 2020, Kidney International
  • CKD Awareness Among US Adults by Future Risk of Kidney Failure, 2020, American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Systematic integrated analysis of genetic and epigenetic variation in diabetic kidney disease, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Chi-yuan Hsu frequently publishes in various medical journals, with the most notable venues including:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • BMC Nephrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist collaborates with several frequent coauthors, such as:

  • Alan S. Go
  • Jiang He
  • Paul L. Kimmel
  • Kathleen D. Liu
  • Harold I. Feldman

Chi-yuan Hsu has been recognized as a Member of the Association of American Physicians, reflecting professional acknowledgment within the medical community.

Best Publications

  • Chronic kidney disease and the risks of death, cardiovascular events, and hospitalization

    A.S. Go;G.M. Chertow;D. Fan;C.E. McCulloch

  • Body Mass Index and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease

    Chi-yuan Hsu;Charles E. McCulloch;Carlos Iribarren;Jeanne Darbinian

  • Fibroblast growth factor 23 is elevated before parathyroid hormone and phosphate in chronic kidney disease.

    Tamara Isakova;Patricia Wahl;Gabriela S. Vargas;Orlando M. Gutiérrez

  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Risks of Mortality and End-Stage Renal Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

    Tamara Isakova;Huiliang Xie;Wei Yang;Dawei Xie

  • Renal Insufficiency in the Absence of Albuminuria and Retinopathy Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Holly J. Kramer;Quan Dong Nguyen;Gary Curhan;Chi Yuan Hsu

  • APOL1 Risk Variants, Race, and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease

    Afshin Parsa;W. H Linda Kao;Dawei Xie;Brad C. Astor

  • Community-based incidence of acute renal failure

    C.-y. Hsu;C.E. McCulloch;D. Fan;J.D. Ordoñez

  • Epidemiology of Anemia Associated with Chronic Renal Insufficiency among Adults in the United States: Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

    Chi-Yuan Hsu;Charles E McCulloch;Gary C Curhan

  • Risk factors for end-stage renal disease: 25-year follow-up.

    Chi-yuan Hsu;Carlos Iribarren;Charles E. McCulloch;Jeanne Darbinian

  • Dialysis-requiring acute renal failure increases the risk of progressive chronic kidney disease.

    Lowell J. Lo;Alan S. Go;Alan S. Go;Glenn M. Chertow;Charles E. McCulloch

  • The risk of acute renal failure in patients with chronic kidney disease

    C.Y. Hsu;J.D. Ordoñez;G.M. Chertow;D. Fan

  • The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study: Design and Methods

    Harold I. Feldman;Lawrence J. Appel;Glenn M. Chertow;Denise Cifelli

  • Trends in prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the United States

    Daniel Murphy;Charles E. McCulloch;Feng Lin;Tanushree Banerjee

  • Elevated Blood Pressure and Risk of End-stage Renal Disease in Subjects Without Baseline Kidney Disease

    Chi-yuan Hsu;Charles E. McCulloch;Jeanne Darbinian;Alan S. Go

  • Temporal Changes in Incidence of Dialysis-Requiring AKI

    Raymond K. Hsu;Charles E. McCulloch;R. Adams Dudley;Lowell J. Lo

  • Use of the Albumin/Creatinine Ratio to Detect Microalbuminuria: Implications of Sex and Race

    Holly J Mattix;Chi-Yuan Hsu;Shimon Shaykevich;Gary C Curhan

  • Racial Differences in the Progression from Chronic Renal Insufficiency to End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States

    Chi-yuan Hsu;Feng Lin;Eric Vittinghoff;Michael G Shlipak

  • High Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease in Persons With Renal Insufficiency Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000

    Ann M. O’Hare;David V. Glidden;Caroline S. Fox;Chi-yuan Hsu

  • Increased prevalence of subclinical and clinical hypothyroidism in persons with chronic kidney disease

    Joan C. Lo;Joan C. Lo;Glenn M. Chertow;Glenn M. Chertow;Alan S. Go;Alan S. Go;Chi-Yuan Hsu;Chi-Yuan Hsu

  • Chronic kidney disease and the risks of death, cardiovascular events, and hospitalization

    AS Go;GM Chertow;D Fan

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan S. Go
Alan S. Go Kaiser Permanente
Harold I. Feldman
Harold I. Feldman University of Pennsylvania
Charles E. McCulloch
Charles E. McCulloch University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen D. Liu
Kathleen D. Liu University of California, San Francisco
Raymond R. Townsend
Raymond R. Townsend University of Pennsylvania
John W. Kusek
John W. Kusek National Institutes of Health
Jiang He
Jiang He Tulane University
Mahboob Rahman
Mahboob Rahman Case Western Reserve University
Neil R. Powe
Neil R. Powe University of California, San Francisco
Glenn M. Chertow
Glenn M. Chertow Stanford University

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