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Greet Van den Berghe

Greet Van den Berghe

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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128
Citations
115273
World Ranking
373
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127
Citations
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World Ranking
2753
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Greet Van den Berghe is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has published extensively in the field of medicine, with a specific focus on critical care, nutrition, and metabolism. Their research spans multiple subfields, including nutrition and dietetics, physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several main topics of study:

  • Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Electrolyte and hormonal disorders
  • Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Hyperglycemia and glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patients

Van den Berghe's recent notable papers include:

  • ICU-acquired weakness, 2020, Intensive Care Medicine
  • Five-year impact of ICU-acquired neuromuscular complications: a prospective, observational study, 2020, Intensive Care Medicine
  • Intensive care unit acquired muscle weakness in COVID-19 patients, 2020, Intensive Care Medicine
  • A guide to enteral nutrition in intensive care units: 10 expert tips for the daily practice, 2021, Critical Care
  • Tight Blood-Glucose Control without Early Parenteral Nutrition in the ICU, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Ilse Vanhorebeek
  • Jan Gunst
  • Pieter Wouters
  • Lies Langouche
  • Michaël P. Casaer

The scientist publishes regularly in several key venues, such as:

  • Critical Care
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • Intensive Care Medicine
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Clinical Epigenetics

Van den Berghe has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients

    Greet Van den Berghe;Pieter Wouters;Frank Weekers;Charles Verwaest

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU.

    Greet Van den Berghe;Alexander Wilmer;Greet Hermans;Wouter Meersseman

  • Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

    Lars Rydén;Eberhard Standl;Małgorzata Bartnik;Greet Van den Berghe

  • ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: intensive care.

    Pierre Singer;Mette M. Berger;Greet Van den Berghe;Gianni Biolo

  • Early Versus Late Parenteral Nutrition in Critically Ill Adults

    Michael P. Casaer;Dieter Mesotten;Greet Hermans;Pieter J. Wouters

  • Outcome benefit of intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill: Insulin dose versus glycemic control.

    Greet Van den Berghe;Pieter J. Wouters;Roger Bouillon;Frank Weekers

  • The State of the Art of Nurse Rostering

    Edmund K. Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker;Greet Vanden Berghe;Hendrik Van Landeghem

  • Management of Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Patients in Non-Critical Care Setting: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

    Guillermo E. Umpierrez;Richard Hellman;Mary T. Korytkowski;Mikhail Kosiborod

  • GUIDELINES FOR PRE-OPERATIVE CARDIAC RISK ASSESSMENT AND PERIOPERATIVE CARDIAC MANAGEMENT IN NON-CARDIAC SURGERY

    Don Poldermans;Jeroen J. Bax;Eric Boersma;Stefan De Hert

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Insulin therapy protects the central and peripheral nervous system of intensive care patients

    G. Van den Berghe;K. Schoonheydt;P. Becx;F. Bruyninckx

  • Intensive Insulin Therapy in Mixed Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Units Benefit Versus Harm

    Greet Van den Berghe;Alexander Wilmer;Ilse Milants;Pieter J. Wouters

  • How does blood glucose control with insulin save lives in intensive care

    Greet Van den Berghe

  • Intensive Insulin Therapy Exerts Antiinflammatory Effects in Critically Ill Patients and Counteracts the Adverse Effect of Low Mannose-Binding Lectin Levels

    Troels Krarup Hansen;Steffen Thiel;Pieter Jozef Wouters;Jens Sandahl Christiansen

  • Guidelines for pre-operative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery: the Task Force for Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Perioperative Cardiac Management in Non-cardiac Surgery of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and endorsed by the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA)

    Don Poldermans;Jeroen J. Bax;Eric Boersma;Stefan De Hert

  • Clinical review: intensive care unit acquired weakness

    Greet Hermans;Greet Van den Berghe

  • ESPEN Guidelines on enteral nutrition: intensive care

    KG Kreymann;MM Berger;NE Deutz;M Hiesmayr

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart De Moor
Bart De Moor KU Leuven
Cyril Y. Bowers
Cyril Y. Bowers Tulane University
Frits C. R. Spieksma
Frits C. R. Spieksma Eindhoven University of Technology
Edmund K. Burke
Edmund K. Burke Bangor University
Rik Gosselink
Rik Gosselink KU Leuven

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