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Hirotsugu Ueshima is affiliated with Shiga University of Medical Science in Japan and has a research background primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans several subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, nutrition and dietetics, as well as endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their research topics cover a range of areas with particular emphasis on nutritional studies and diet, blood pressure and hypertension studies, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, sodium intake and health, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, and cardiac imaging and diagnostics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Katsuyuki Miura, Aya Kadota, Keiko Kondo, Akira Fujiyoshi, and Tomonori Okamura.

Ueshima's work has been published repeatedly in a number of scientific journals. The primary venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • Circulation
  • Journal of Hypertension
  • Hypertension Research
  • Journal of Epidemiology

Some of their recently published papers include:

  • "Relationship Between Step Counts and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in Japanese Men" (2020), published in Stroke
  • "Association between plant-based diets and blood pressure in the INTERMAP study" (2020), published in BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health
  • "Food Sources of Dietary Potassium in the Adult Japanese Population: The International Study of Macro-/Micronutrients and Blood Pressure (INTERMAP)" (2020), published in Nutrients
  • "A Combination of Blood Pressure and Total Cholesterol Increases the Lifetime Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality: EPOCH-JAPAN" (2020), published in Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • "Isolated systolic hypertension and 29-year cardiovascular mortality risk in Japanese adults aged 30--49 years" (2020), published in Journal of Hypertension

Best Publications

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (JSH 2009)

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

  • Human metabolic phenotype diversity and its association with diet and blood pressure

    Elaine Holmes;Ruey Leng Loo;Jeremiah Stamler;Magda Bictash

  • Cardiovascular disease and risk factors in Asia: a selected review.

    Hirotsugu Ueshima;Akira Sekikawa;Akira Sekikawa;Katsuyuki Miura;Tanvir Chowdhury Turin

  • Blood pressure and cardiovascular disease in the Asia Pacific region.

    C. M. M. Lawes;A Rodgers;D. A. Bennett

  • A simple method to estimate populational 24-h urinary sodium and potassium excretion using a casual urine specimen.

    Taichiro Tanaka;Tomonori Okamura;K. Miura;T. Kadowaki

  • Erratum: The Japanese Society of hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (Hypertension Research (2009) 32 (11-23) DOI: 10.1038/hr.2008.2)

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

  • Dietary Sources of Sodium in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Women and Men Aged 40 to 59 Years: The INTERMAP Study

    Cheryl A.M. Anderson;Lawrence J. Appel;Nagako Okuda;Ian J. Brown

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Serum triglycerides as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.

    A. Patel;F. Barzi;K. Jamrozik;T. H. Lam

  • Target Blood Pressure for Treatment of Isolated Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly: Valsartan in Elderly Isolated Systolic Hypertension Study

    Toshio Ogihara;Takao Saruta;Hiromi Rakugi;Hiroaki Matsuoka

  • Alcohol and blood pressure: the INTERSALT study

    M G Marmot;P Elliott;P Elliott;M J Shipley;M J Shipley;A R Dyer

  • Assessment of analytical reproducibility of 1H NMR spectroscopy based metabonomics for large-scale epidemiological research: The INTERMAP study

    Marc Emmanuel Dumas;Elaine C. Maibaum;Claire Teague;Hirotsugu Ueshima

  • The effects of diabetes on the risks of major cardiovascular diseases and death in the Asia-Pacific region.

    Woodward M;Zhang X;Barzi F;Pan W

  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation

    Norihiro Kato;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Fumihiko Takeuchi;Niek Verweij

  • Executive Summary of Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guideline for Diagnosis and Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases for Japanese

    Tamio Teramoto;Jun Sasaki;Hirotsugu Ueshima;Genshi Egusa

  • Explanation for the Japanese Paradox: Prevention of Increase in Coronary Heart Disease and Reduction in Stroke

    Hirotsugu Ueshima

  • INTERMAP: background, aims, design, methods, and descriptive statistics (nondietary).

    J Stamler;P Elliott;B Dennis;AR Dyer

  • Association Between Protein Intake and Blood Pressure: The INTERMAP Study

    Paul Elliott;Jeremiah Stamler;Alan R. Dyer;Lawrence Appel

Frequent Co-Authors

Katsuyuki Miura
Katsuyuki Miura Shiga University of Medical Science
Tomonori Okamura
Tomonori Okamura Keio University
Takayoshi Ohkubo
Takayoshi Ohkubo Teikyo University
Jeremiah Stamler
Jeremiah Stamler Northwestern University
Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott Imperial College London
Lewis H. Kuller
Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Robert D. Abbott
Robert D. Abbott University of Virginia
Kamal Masaki
Kamal Masaki University of Hawaii at Manoa
Martha L. Daviglus
Martha L. Daviglus University of Illinois at Chicago

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