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  • 2017 - Kelly West Award, American Diabetes Association

Overview

Dana Dabelea is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of medicine, with a focus on endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. The work also covers pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics are centered around birth, development, and health, diabetes management and research, as well as diabetes and associated disorders. Additional areas include obesity, physical activity and diet, gestational diabetes research and management, diabetes treatment and management, and pancreatic function related to diabetes.

Significant recent publications by Dana Dabelea include:

  • The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans, 2020, Nature
  • A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics, 2020, Nature
  • A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes, 2023, Nature
  • Trends in Prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents in the US, 2001-2017, 2021, JAMA
  • Trends in Incidence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Among Youths - Selected Counties and Indian Reservations, United States, 2002-2015, 2020, MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Dabelea collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Catherine Pihoker
  • Katherine A. Sauder
  • Anne P. Starling
  • Anne L. Dunlop
  • Wei Perng

The main journals and venues where Dana Dabelea's work has been published include:

  • Diabetes
  • UNC Libraries
  • Diabetes Care
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Communications Medicine

Dabelea's contributions have been recognized with the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The Metabolic Syndrome

    Marc-Andre Cornier;Dana Dabelea;Teri L. Hernandez;Rachel C. Lindstrom

  • Prevalence of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Among Children and Adolescents From 2001 to 2009

    Dana Dabelea;Elizabeth Jane Mayer-Davis;Sharon Saydah;Giuseppina Imperatore

  • Incidence Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes among Youths, 2002–2012

    Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis;Jean M. Lawrence;Dana Dabelea;Jasmin Divers

  • Intrauterine exposure to diabetes conveys risks for type 2 diabetes and obesity: a study of discordant sibships.

    Dana Dabelea;Robert L. Hanson;Robert S. Lindsay;David J. Pettitt

  • Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

    Anastasia Katsarou;Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir;Araz Rawshani;Dana Dabelea

  • Staging Presymptomatic Type 1 Diabetes: A Scientific Statement of JDRF, the Endocrine Society, and the American Diabetes Association.

    Richard A. Insel;Jessica L. Dunne;Mark A. Atkinson;Jane L. Chiang

  • Prevention of Diabetes in Women with a History of Gestational Diabetes: Effects of Metformin and Lifestyle Interventions

    Robert E. Ratner;Costas A. Christophi;Boyd E. Metzger;Dana Dabelea

  • Incidence of diabetes in youth in the United States.

    Dana Dabelea;Ronny A Bell;Ralph B D'Agostino

  • Increasing Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Over Time and by Birth Cohort: Kaiser Permanente of Colorado GDM Screening Program

    Dana Dabelea;Janet K. Snell-Bergeon;Cynthia L. Hartsfield;Kimberly J. Bischoff

  • Cardiovascular disease competes with breast cancer as the leading cause of death for older females diagnosed with breast cancer: a retrospective cohort study

    Jennifer L Patnaik;Tim Byers;Carolyn DiGuiseppi;Dana Dabelea

  • The 1997 American Diabetes Association and 1999 World Health Organization criteria for hyperglycemia in the diagnosis and prediction of diabetes.

    M M Gabir;R L Hanson;D Dabelea;G Imperatore

  • ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2018: Definition, epidemiology, and classification of diabetes in children and adolescents

    Elizabeth J. Mayer‐Davis;Anna R. Kahkoska;Craig Jefferies;Dana Dabelea

  • Association of Type 1 Diabetes vs Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosed During Childhood and Adolescence With Complications During Teenage Years and Young Adulthood.

    Dana Dabelea;Jeanette M. Stafford;Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis;Ralph D’Agostino

  • Increasing prevalence of Type II diabetes in American Indian children

    D. Dabelea;R. L. Hanson;P. H. Bennett;J. Roumain

  • Projections of type 1 and type 2 diabetes burden in the U.S. population aged <20 years through 2050: dynamic modeling of incidence, mortality, and population growth.

    Giuseppina Imperatore;James P. Boyle;Theodore J. Thompson;Doug Case

  • The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study: rationale, findings, and future directions.

    Richard F. Hamman;Ronny A. Bell;Dana Dabelea;Ralph B. D’Agostino

  • The Predisposition to Obesity and Diabetes in Offspring of Diabetic Mothers

    Dana Dabelea

  • Association of Intrauterine Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and Obesity With Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: The SEARCH Case-Control Study

    Dana Dabelea;Elizabeth Jane Mayer-Davis;Archana P Lamichhane;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Prevalence of Diabetes in U.S. Youth in 2009: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study

    David J. Pettitt;Jennifer Talton;Dana Dabelea;Jasmin Divers

  • ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2014. Definition, epidemiology, and classification of diabetes in children and adolescents.

    Maria E Craig;Craig Jefferies;Dana Dabelea;Naby Balde

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis
Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jean M. Lawrence
Jean M. Lawrence National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Richard F. Hamman
Richard F. Hamman University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University
Santica M. Marcovina
Santica M. Marcovina University of Washington
Giuseppina Imperatore
Giuseppina Imperatore Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David J. Pettitt
David J. Pettitt Kaiser Permanente
David M. Maahs
David M. Maahs Stanford University
Stephen R. Daniels
Stephen R. Daniels University of Colorado Denver
Beatriz L. Rodriguez
Beatriz L. Rodriguez University of Hawaii at Manoa

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