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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Christodoulos Stefanadis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant concentration in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work covers several subfields, including:

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases

Stefanadis's research topics are diverse, with substantial contributions to:

  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Stefanadis include:

  • Effect of Colchicine vs Standard Care on Cardiac and Inflammatory Biomarkers and Clinical Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • The Greek study in the effects of colchicine in COVID-19 complications prevention (GRECCO-19 study): Rationale and study design, 2020, Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
  • MicroRNAs in cardiovascular disease, 2020, Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Aging and Longevity, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Colchicine as a potent anti-inflammatory treatment in COVID-19: can we teach an old dog new tricks?, 2020, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

Frequent co-authors in Stefanadis's publications include:

  • Dimitris Tsiachris
  • Konstantinos Tsioufis
  • Ioannis Doundoulakis
  • C. Antoniou
  • Dimitrios A. Vrachatis

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, with a number of publications in:

  • Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
  • Nutrients
  • Blood Pressure Monitoring

Best Publications

  • From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II.

    Morteza Naghavi;Peter Libby;Erling Falk;S. Ward Casscells;S. Ward Casscells

  • Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with arterial stiffness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Charalambos Vlachopoulos;Konstantinos Aznaouridis;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Determinants of pulse wave velocity in healthy people and in the presence of cardiovascular risk factors: 'establishing normal and reference values'.

    Francesco U. S. Mattace-Raso;Albert Hofman;Germaine C. Verwoert;Jacqueline C. M. Witteman

  • Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with central haemodynamics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Charalambos Vlachopoulos;Konstantinos Aznaouridis;Michael F O'Rourke;Michel E Safar

  • The Role of Nitric Oxide on Endothelial Function

    Dimitris Tousoulis;Anna-Maria Kampoli;Costas Tentolouris;Nikolaos Papageorgiou

  • Dietary patterns: A Mediterranean diet score and its relation to clinical and biological markers of cardiovascular disease risk

    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Adherence to the Mediterranean diet attenuates inflammation and coagulation process in healthy adults: The ATTICA Study.

    Christina Chrysohoou;Demosthenes B Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Undurti N Das

  • Increased Proinflammatory Cytokines in Patients With Chronic Stable Angina and Their Reduction By Aspirin

    Ignatios Ikonomidis;Felicita Andreotti;Emanouel Economou;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Vascular wall shear stress: basic principles and methods.

    Theodoros G. Papaioannou;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Adherence to the Mediterranean food pattern predicts the prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes and obesity, among healthy adults; the accuracy of the MedDietScore

    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Fotini Arvaniti;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • Terminology for high-risk and vulnerable coronary artery plaques

    Johannes A Schaar;James E Muller;Erling Falk;Renu Virmani

  • Vascular Factors and Risk of Dementia: Design of the Three-City Study and Baseline Characteristics of the Study Population

    Marilyn Antoniak;Maura Pugliatti;Richard Hubbard;John Britton

  • Distensibility of the ascending aorta: comparison of invasive and non-invasive techniques in healthy men and in men with coronary artery disease

    C. Stefanadis;C. Stratos;H. Boudoulas;C. Kourouklis

  • Acute Systemic Inflammation Increases Arterial Stiffness and Decreases Wave Reflections in Healthy Individuals

    Charalambos Vlachopoulos;Ioanna Dima;Konstantinos Aznaouridis;Carmen Vasiliadou

  • Thermal Heterogeneity Within Human Atherosclerotic Coronary Arteries Detected In Vivo A New Method of Detection by Application of a Special Thermography Catheter

    Christodoulos Stefanadis;Leonidas Diamantopoulos;Charalambos Vlachopoulos;Eleftherios Tsiamis

  • The CD40/CD40 Ligand System: Linking Inflammation With Atherothrombosis

    Charalambos Antoniades;Constantinos Bakogiannis;Dimitris Tousoulis;Alexios S. Antonopoulos

  • Effect of Colchicine vs Standard Care on Cardiac and Inflammatory Biomarkers and Clinical Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019: The GRECCO-19 Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Spyridon G. Deftereos;Georgios Giannopoulos;Dimitrios A. Vrachatis;Gerasimos D. Siasos

  • Detection of Luminal-Intimal Border and Coronary Wall Enhancement in Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging After Injection of Microbubbles and Simultaneous Sonication With Transthoracic Echocardiography

    Manolis Vavuranakis;Ioannis A. Kakadiaris;Sean M. O’Malley;Christodoulos Stefanadis

  • The implication of obesity and central fat on markers of chronic inflammation: The ATTICA study.

    Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos;Christos Pitsavos;Mary Yannakoulia;Christina Chrysohoou

  • The role of oxidative stress in atherosclerosis.

    Georgia Vogiatzi;Dimitris Tousoulis;Christodoulos Stefanadis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christos Pitsavos
Christos Pitsavos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos Harokopio University
Charalambos Vlachopoulos
Charalambos Vlachopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Pavlos Toutouzas
Pavlos Toutouzas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Charalambos Antoniades
Charalambos Antoniades University of Oxford
Athanasios G. Papavassiliou
Athanasios G. Papavassiliou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Keith M. Channon
Keith M. Channon University of Oxford
Panos E. Vardas
Panos E. Vardas University of Crete
Thomas F. Lüscher
Thomas F. Lüscher University of Zurich
Fernando Alfonso
Fernando Alfonso Hospital Universitario de La Princesa

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