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Gordon H. Williams is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with a specialization in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. They have contributed to subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, nutrition and dietetics, and surgery.

The scientist's main topics of study involve hormonal regulation and hypertension, blood pressure and hypertension studies, sodium intake and health, and renin-angiotensin system studies. Further areas of interest include cardiovascular, neuropeptides, and oxidative stress research, as well as apelin-related biomedical research and birth, development, and health.

Gordon H. Williams has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals such as Hypertension, the Journal of the Endocrine Society, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of Endocrinology.

  • Frequent co-authors include Gail K. Adler, Luminita H. Pojoga, Jonathan S. Williams, Mahyar Heydarpour, and José R. Romero.

Their recent papers illustrate a sustained interest in cardiovascular and endocrine disorders. Selected publications include:

  • The Unrecognized Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Aldosterone and cardiovascular diseases, 2022, Cardiovascular Research
  • The Unrecognized Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Dietary sodium intake and cortisol measurements, 2020, Clinical Endocrinology
  • Lysine-Specific Demethylase-1 Deficiency Increases Agonist Signaling Via the Mineralocorticoid Receptor, 2020, Hypertension

Best Publications

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • The Effects of Antihypertensive Therapy on the Quality of Life

    Croog Sh;Levine S;Testa Ma;Brown B

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Concurrent morning increase in platelet aggregability and the risk of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death.

    Geoffrey H. Tofler;Damian Brezinski;Andrew I. Schafer;Charles A. Czeisler

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Effects of eplerenone, enalapril, and eplerenone/enalapril in patients with essential hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy: the 4E-left ventricular hypertrophy study.

    Bertram Pitt;Nathaniel Reichek;Roland Willenbrock;Faiez Zannad

  • Principal results of the Controlled Onset Verapamil Investigation of Cardiovascular End Points (CONVINCE) trial.

    Henry R. Black;William J. Elliott;Gregory Grandits;Patricia Grambsch

  • Effect of captopril on progression to clinical proteinuria in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria

    G Viberti;C E Mogensen;L C Groop;J F Pauls

  • Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Claudia Langenberg;Toshiko Tanaka;Toshiko Tanaka

  • Relation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system to clinical state in congestive heart failure.

    V J Dzau;W S Colucci;N K Hollenberg;G H Williams

  • HPA axis in major depression: cortisol, clinical symptomatology and genetic variation predict cognition

    Jennifer Keller;Rowena Gomez;Rowena Gomez;Gordon Williams;Anna Lembke

  • Aldosterone: A Mediator of Myocardial Necrosis and Renal Arteriopathy

    Ricardo Rocha;Charles T. Stier;Imre Kifor;Margarita R. Ochoa-Maya

  • Prostaglandins in severe congestive heart failure. Relation to activation of the renin--angiotensin system and hyponatremia.

    Victor J. Dzau;Milton Packer;Leonard S. Lilly;Stephen L. Swartz

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Stimulation of plasminogen activator inhibitor in vivo by infusion of angiotensin II. Evidence of a potential interaction between the renin-angiotensin system and fibrinolytic function.

    Paul M. Ridker;Cynthia L. Gaboury;Paul R. Conlin;Ellen W. Seely

  • Selective Aldosterone Blockade with Eplerenone Reduces Albuminuria in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

    Murray Epstein;Gordon H. Williams;Myron Weinberger;Andrew Lewin

  • Sustained Effectiveness of Converting-Enzyme Inhibition in Patients with Severe Congestive Heart Failure

    Victor J. Dzau;Wilson S. Colucci;Gordon H. Williams;Gregory Curfman

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Principal results of the controlled onset verapamil investigation of cardiovascular end points (CONVINCE) trial

    H.R. Black;W.J. Elliott;G. Granditis;P. Grambsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman K. Hollenberg
Norman K. Hollenberg Brigham and Women's Hospital
Gail K. Adler
Gail K. Adler Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paul N. Hopkins
Paul N. Hopkins University of Utah
Xavier Jeunemaitre
Xavier Jeunemaitre Université Paris Cité
Nancy J. Brown
Nancy J. Brown Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Steven C. Hunt
Steven C. Hunt Cornell University
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Benjamin F. Voight
Benjamin F. Voight University of Pennsylvania
Jose C. Florez
Jose C. Florez Harvard University

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