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Spain
2023

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Medicine

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

Overview

Javier Díez is affiliated with the University of Navarra in Spain. Their research work is predominantly situated within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as the primary subfield. Additional areas of study include Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Nephrology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main research topics cover several aspects of cardiovascular and metabolic health, including:

  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies

Javier Díez has contributed to several recent scientific papers, which highlight a range of cardiovascular and clinical topics:

  • "Diffuse myocardial fibrosis: mechanisms, diagnosis and therapeutic approaches", 2021, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • "Risk for cardiovascular disease associated with metabolic syndrome and its components: a 13-year prospective study in the RIVANA cohort", 2020, Cardiovascular Diabetology
  • "SUCCOR study: an international European cohort observational study comparing minimally invasive surgery versus open abdominal radical hysterectomy in patients with stage IB1 cervical cancer", 2020, International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
  • "The effect of spironolactone on cardiovascular function and markers of fibrosis in people at increased risk of developing heart failure: the heart 'OMics' in AGEing (HOMAGE) randomized clinical trial", 2020, European Heart Journal
  • "Myocardial Interstitial Fibrosis in Nonischemic Heart Disease, Part 3/4", 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Arantxa González, Begoña López, Susana Ravassa, Borja Quiroga, and Alberto Ortíz.

Their body of work has been published in multiple specialized journals, with notable publication venues including:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Clinical Kidney Journal
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • European Heart Journal
  • Revista Española de Cardiología

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease. A clinical update from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO)

    Charles A. Herzog;Charles A. Herzog;Richard W. Asinger;Richard W. Asinger;Alan K. Berger;David M. Charytan

  • European Stroke Initiative Recommendations for Stroke Management-update 2003.

    Gunnel E. Carlsson;Anders Möller;Christian Blomstrand;Takashi Ueda

  • Distinct DNA methylomes of newborns and centenarians

    Holger Heyn;Ning Li;Humberto J. Ferreira;Sebastian Moran

  • Myocardial remodeling after infarction: the role of myofibroblasts

    Susanne W. M. van den Borne;Javier Diez;W. Matthijs Blankesteijn;Johan Verjans

  • Losartan-dependent regression of myocardial fibrosis is associated with reduction of left ventricular chamber stiffness in hypertensive patients.

    Javier Díez;Ramón Querejeta;Begoña López;Arantxa González

  • Myocardial Fibrosis as an Early Manifestation of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Carolyn Y. Ho;Begoña López;Otavio R. Coelho-Filho;Neal K. Lakdawala

  • Oxidative Stress in Arterial Hypertension: Role of NAD(P)H Oxidase

    Guillermo Zalba;Gorka San José;María U. Moreno;María A. Fortuño

  • Vascular NADH/NADPH oxidase is involved in enhanced superoxide production in spontaneously hypertensive rats

    Guillermo Zalba;Francisco J. Beaumont;Gorka San José;Ana Fortuño

  • Increased collagen type I synthesis in patients with heart failure of hypertensive origin: relation to myocardial fibrosis.

    Ramón Querejeta;Begoña López;Arantxa González;Eloy Sánchez

  • Serum Carboxy-Terminal Propeptide of Procollagen Type I Is a Marker of Myocardial Fibrosis in Hypertensive Heart Disease

    Ramón Querejeta;Nerea Varo;Begoña López;Mariano Larman

  • Myocardial Interstitial Fibrosis in Heart Failure: Biological and Translational Perspectives

    Arantxa González;Erik B. Schelbert;Javier Díez;Javed Butler

  • The relevance of tissue angiotensin-converting enzyme: Manifestations in mechanistic and endpoint data

    Victor J. Dzau;Kenneth Bernstein;David Celermajer;Jerome Cohen;Jerome Cohen

  • Prevalence of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in a General Population

    Tatiana Kuznetsova;Lieven Herbots;Begoña López;Yu Jin

  • Abnormalities of the Extracellular Degradation of Collagen Type I in Essential Hypertension

    Concepción Laviades;Nerea Varo;Javier Fernández;Gaspar Mayor

  • New strategies for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: the importance of targeted therapies for heart failure phenotypes

    Michele Senni;Walter J. Paulus;Antonello Gavazzi;Alan G. Fraser

  • Effects of loop diuretics on myocardial fibrosis and collagen type I turnover in chronic heart failure

    Begoña López;Ramón Querejeta;Arantxa González;Eloy Sánchez

  • Myocardial fibrosis: biomedical research from bench to bedside.

    Mariann Gyöngyösi;Johannes Winkler;Isbaal Ramos;Quoc‐Tuan Do

  • Usefulness of Serum Carboxy-Terminal Propeptide of Procollagen Type I in Assessment of the Cardioreparative Ability of Antihypertensive Treatment in Hypertensive Patients

    Begoña López;Ramón Querejeta;Nerea Varo;Arantxa González

  • Myocardial Titin Hypophosphorylation Importantly Contributes to Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in a Rat Metabolic Risk Model

    Nazha Hamdani;Constantijn Franssen;André Lourenço;Inês Falcão-Pires

  • Reverse Myocardial Remodeling Following Valve Replacement in Patients With Aortic Stenosis.

    Thomas A. Treibel;Rebecca Kozor;Rebecca Schofield;Giulia Benedetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Faiez Zannad
Faiez Zannad University of Lorraine
Stephane Heymans
Stephane Heymans Maastricht University
Antoni Bayes-Genis
Antoni Bayes-Genis Autonomous University of Barcelona
Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
Carsten Tschöpe
Carsten Tschöpe Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Luis M. Ruilope
Luis M. Ruilope European University of Madrid
José A. Rodríguez
José A. Rodríguez Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland University of Glasgow

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