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  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Jill J. F. Belch is affiliated with the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, internal medicine, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers main topics including peripheral artery disease management, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, diagnosis and treatment of venous diseases, air quality and health impacts, lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, and atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.

Recent publications reflect a concentration on vascular diseases and cardiovascular health:

  • "Editor's Choice -- European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2024 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Asymptomatic Lower Limb Peripheral Arterial Disease and Intermittent Claudication" (2023), published in the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
  • "Contribution of cystatin C- and creatinine-based definitions of chronic kidney disease to cardiovascular risk assessment in 20 population-based and 3 disease cohorts: the BiomarCaRE project" (2020), BMC Medicine
  • "Exercise therapy for chronic symptomatic peripheral artery disease" (2024), European Heart Journal
  • "Management of chronic peripheral artery disease patients with indication for endovascular revascularization" (2022), VASA
  • "Lipid-lowering and anti-thrombotic therapy in patients with peripheral arterial disease" (2021), VASA

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a group of researchers, including Lucia Mazzolai, Marianne Brodmann, Christian Heiß, Catherine A. Fitton, and Victor Aboyans.

Jill J. F. Belch has published extensively in several journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in VASA, followed by the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, European Heart Journal, BMC Medicine, and Atherosclerosis.

Their academic contributions have been recognized through election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2011 and as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Global vascular guidelines on the management of chronic limb-threatening ischemia

    Michael S. Conte;Andrew W. Bradbury;Philippe Kolh;John V. White

  • The prevention of progression of arterial disease and diabetes (POPADAD) trial: factorial randomised placebo controlled trial of aspirin and antioxidants in patients with diabetes and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease

    Jill Belch;Angus MacCuish;Iain Campbell;Stuart Cobbe

  • Critical issues in peripheral arterial disease detection and management: a call to action.

    Jill J. F. Belch;Eric J. Topol;Giancarlo Agnelli;Michel Bertrand

  • High-dose allopurinol improves endothelial function by profoundly reducing vascular oxidative stress and not by lowering uric acid

    Jacob George;Elaine Carr;Justine Davies;J.J.F. Belch

  • Allopurinol improves endothelial dysfunction in chronic heart failure

    Colin A.J. Farquharson;Robert Butler;Alexander Hill;Jill J.F. Belch

  • Allopurinol Normalizes Endothelial Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetics With Mild Hypertension

    Robert Butler;Andrew D. Morris;Jill J. F. Belch;Alexander Hill

  • Oxygen free radicals and congestive heart failure.

    Jill J. F. Belch;Alan B. Bridges;Norman Scott;Mridula Chopra

  • Oxidative stress levels are raised in chronic fatigue syndrome and are associated with clinical symptoms.

    Gwen Kennedy;Vance A. Spence;Margaret McLaren;Alexander Hill

  • European multicentre study to define disease activity criteria for systemic sclerosis. II. Identification of disease activity variables and development of preliminary activity indexes

    G. Valentini;A. Della Rossa;S. Bombardieri;W. Bencivelli

  • Results of the randomized, placebo-controlled clopidogrel and acetylsalicylic acid in bypass surgery for peripheral arterial disease (CASPAR) trial

    Jill J.F. Belch;John Dormandy

  • Effect of fibroblast growth factor NV1FGF on amputation and death: a randomised placebo-controlled trial of gene therapy in critical limb ischaemia

    Jill Belch;William R Hiatt;Iris Baumgartner;I Vickie Driver

  • Labetalol and platelet function in pre-eclampsia

    J.J Walker;L Erwin;G Lang;C.R.M Prentice

  • Prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Medical Patients by Low-Dose Heparin

    Jill J. Belch;G. D. O. Lowe;Agnes G. Ward;C. D. Forbes

  • Effects of altering dietary essential fatty acids on requirements for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a double blind placebo controlled study.

    J. J. F. Belch;D. Ansell;R. Madhok;A. O'dowd

  • Impaired skin microvascular function in children, adolescents, and young adults with type 1 diabetes.

    F. Khan;T. A. Elhadd;S. A. Greene;J. J. F. Belch

  • Evening primrose oil and borage oil in rheumatologic conditions

    Jill Jf Belch;Alexander Hill

  • Cod liver oil (n-3 fatty acids) as an non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug sparing agent in rheumatoid arthritis

    B. Galarraga;M. Ho;H. M. Youssef;A. Hill

  • 2017 Update of ESC/EAS Task Force on practical clinical guidance for proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibition in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or in familial hypercholesterolaemia

    Ulf Landmesser;M. John Chapman;Jane K Stock;Pierre Amarenco

  • EFFECTS OF FISH OIL SUPPLEMENTATION ON NON-STEROIDAL ANTI—INFLAMMATORY DRUG REQUIREMENT IN PATIENTS WITH MILD RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS—A DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO CONTROLLED STUDY

    C. S. Lau;K. D. Morley;J. J. F. Belch

  • Critical Issues in Peripheral Arterial Disease Detection and Management

    Jill J. F. Belch;Eric J. Topol;Giancarlo Agnelli;Michel Bertrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan D. Struthers
Allan D. Struthers University of Dundee
Chak Sing Lau
Chak Sing Lau University of Hong Kong
Douglas J. Veale
Douglas J. Veale University College Dublin
Chim C. Lang
Chim C. Lang University of Dundee
Helen M. Colhoun
Helen M. Colhoun University of Edinburgh
Ian A. Greer
Ian A. Greer Queen's University Belfast
Andrew D. Morris
Andrew D. Morris University of Edinburgh
Ariane L. Herrick
Ariane L. Herrick University of Manchester
William R. Hiatt
William R. Hiatt University of Colorado Denver
Paul Emery
Paul Emery University of Leeds

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