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2023

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Medicine

D-Index
140
Citations
94045
World Ranking
1663
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Felipe F. Casanueva is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a considerable focus on subfields such as Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Genetics.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment

Frequent publication venues for Felipe F. Casanueva include:

  • Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
  • Pituitary
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • Nature Reviews Endocrinology

The scientist's recent papers are:

  • "Multidisciplinary management of acromegaly: A consensus" (2020) published in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
  • "Diagnosis and management of prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas: a Pituitary Society international Consensus Statement" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • "Consensus Statement on Vitamin D Status Assessment and Supplementation: Whys, Whens, and Hows" (2024) published in Endocrine Reviews
  • "European Society of Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline: Endocrine work-up in obesity" (2020) published in European Journal of Endocrinology
  • "Consensus on criteria for acromegaly diagnosis and remission" (2023) published in Pituitary

Casanueva frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including:

  • Ana B. Crujeiras
  • Andrea Giustina
  • Dirk Vanderschueren
  • Giulia Rastrelli
  • Ilpo Huhtaniemi

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Diagnosis and treatment of hyperprolactinemia: an Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline

    Shlomo Melmed;Felipe F. Casanueva;Andrew R. Hoffman;David L. Kleinberg

  • Identification of late-onset hypogonadism in middle-aged and elderly men.

    Frederick C.W. Wu;Abdelouahid Tajar;Jennifer M. Beynon;Stephen R. Pye

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Criteria for cure of acromegaly: a consensus statement.

    Andrea Giustina;Ariel Barkan;Felipe F. Casanueva;Franco Cavagnini

  • Guidelines of the Pituitary Society for the diagnosis and management of prolactinomas

    Felipe F. Casanueva;Mark E. Molitch;Janet A. Schlechte;Roger Abs

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis disruptions in older men are differentially linked to age and modifiable risk factors: the European Male Aging Study.

    Frederick C W Wu;Abdelouahid Tajar;Stephen R Pye;Alan J Silman

  • A Consensus on Criteria for Cure of Acromegaly

    Andrea Giustina;Philippe Chanson;M.D. Bronstein;A. Klibanski

  • Preliminary evidence that Ghrelin, the natural GH secretagogue (GHS)-receptor ligand, strongly stimulates GH secretion in humans.

    E. Arvat;L. Di Vito;F. Broglio;M. Papotti

  • Endocrine activities of ghrelin, a natural growth hormone secretagogue (GHS), in humans: comparison and interactions with hexarelin, a nonnatural peptidyl GHS, and GH-releasing hormone.

    E Arvat;M Maccario;L Di Vito;F Broglio

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • FNDC5/irisin is not only a myokine but also an adipokine.

    Arturo Roca-Rivada;Cecilia Castelao;Lucía L. Senin;María O. Landrove

  • Serum leptin levels in normal children : Relationship to age, gender, body mass index, pituitary-gonadal hormones, and pubertal stage

    R V Garcia-Mayor;M A Andrade;M Rios;M Lage

  • Changes in hypothalamic KiSS-1 system and restoration of pubertal activation of the reproductive axis by kisspeptin in undernutrition.

    J M Castellano;V M Navarro;R Fernández-Fernández;R Nogueiras

  • Ghrelin, a novel placental-derived hormone.

    O Gualillo;J Caminos;M Blanco;T Garcìa-Caballero

  • Characteristics of Secondary, Primary, and Compensated Hypogonadism in Aging Men: Evidence from the European Male Ageing Study.

    Abdelouahid Tajar;Gianni Forti;Terence W O'Neill;David M Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Dieguez
Carlos Dieguez University of Santiago de Compostela
Ilpo Huhtaniemi
Ilpo Huhtaniemi Imperial College London
Aleksander Giwercman
Aleksander Giwercman Lund University
Frederick C. W. Wu
Frederick C. W. Wu University of Manchester
Terence W. O'Neill
Terence W. O'Neill University of Manchester
Gianni Forti
Gianni Forti University of Florence
Michael E. J. Lean
Michael E. J. Lean University of Glasgow
Steven Boonen
Steven Boonen KU Leuven
Alan J. Silman
Alan J. Silman University of Oxford

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