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John G.F. Cleland is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Medicine with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their research encompasses several subfields including Hematology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Surgery.

The scientist's work concentrates primarily on topics related to heart failure treatment and management, cardiovascular function and risk factors, and studies on cardiac pacing and defibrillation. Other areas of research include erythropoietin and anemia treatment, iron metabolism and disorders, potassium and related disorders, as well as cardiac arrhythmias and associated treatments.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • European Heart Journal
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • JACC Heart Failure
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by John G.F. Cleland are:

  • Corrigendum to: 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: Developed by the Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) With the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC., 2021, PubMed
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2022, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • 2023 Focused Update of the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2023, European Heart Journal
  • Corrigendum to: 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: Developed by the Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) With the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, 2021, European Heart Journal

Frequent co-authors associated with John G.F. Cleland include:

  • Pierpaolo Pellicori
  • Faïez Zannad
  • Marco Metra
  • Andrew L. Clark
  • Gerasimos Filippatos

Best Publications

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A Voors;Stefan D Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A. Voors;Stefan D. Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • The effect of cardiac resynchronization on morbidity and mortality in heart failure

    John G.F. Cleland;Jean-Claude Daubert;Erland Erdmann;Nick Freemantle

  • 2013 ESC Guidelines on cardiac pacing and cardiac resynchronization therapy : The Task Force on cardiac pacing and resynchronization therapy of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)

    Michele Brignole;Angelo Auricchio;Gonzalo Baron-Esquivias;Pierre Bordachar

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure: executive summary (update 2005): The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Karl Swedberg;John Cleland;Henry Dargie;Helmut Drexler

  • Comparison of carvedilol and metoprolol on clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure in the Carvedilol Or Metoprolol European Trial (COMET): randomised controlled trial

    Philip A. Poole-Wilson;Karl Swedberg;John G.F. Cleland;Andrea Di Lenarda

  • The EuroHeart Failure survey programme-- a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe. Part 1: patient characteristics and diagnosis.

    J.G.F Cleland;K Swedberg;F Follath;M Komajda

  • beta Blockade after myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta regression analysis.

    Nick Freemantle;John Cleland;Philip Young;James Mason

  • Rosuvastatin in Older Patients with Systolic Heart Failure

    John Kjekshus;Eduard Apetrei;Vivencio Barrios;Michael Böhm

  • The perindopril in elderly people with chronic heart failure (PEP-CHF) study

    John G.F. Cleland;Michal Tendera;Jerzy Adamus;Nick Freemantle

  • Angiotensin-Neprilysin inhibition in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

    Scott D. Solomon;John J.V. McMurray;Inder S. Anand;Junbo Ge

  • Comparative Effects of Low and High Doses of the Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, Lisinopril, on Morbidity and Mortality in Chronic Heart Failure

    Milton Packer;Philip A. Poole-Wilson;Paul W. Armstrong;John G. F. Cleland

  • Efficacy and safety of intravenous levosimendan compared with dobutamine in severe low-output heart failure (the LIDO study): a randomised double-blind trial*

    F. Follath;John G.F. Cleland;H. Just;J.G.Y. Papp

  • Comparison of left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes in heart failure by echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Are they interchangeable?

    N.G Bellenger;M.I Burgess;S.G Ray;A Lahiri

  • Temporal trends and patterns in heart failure incidence: a population-based study of 4 million individuals.

    Nathalie Conrad;Andrew Judge;Andrew Judge;Andrew Judge;Jenny Tran;Hamid Mohseni

  • State of the art: using natriuretic peptide levels in clinical practice.

    Alan Maisel;Alan Maisel;Christian Mueller;Kirkwood Adams;Stefan D. Anker

  • The EuroHeart Failure Survey programme--a survey on the quality of care among patients with heart failure in Europe. Part 2: treatment.

    M. Komajda;F. Follath;K. Swedberg;J. Cleland

  • Noninvasive home telemonitoring for patients with heart failure at high risk of recurrent admission and death: the Trans-European Network-Home-Care Management System (TEN-HMS) study.

    John G.F. Cleland;Amala A. Louis;Alan S. Rigby;Uwe Janssens

  • Prognostic relevance of atrial fibrillation in patients with chronic heart failure on long-term treatment with beta-blockers: results from COMET

    Karl Swedberg;Lars G. Olsson;Andrew Charlesworth;John Cleland

  • Telemonitoring or structured telephone support programmes for patients with chronic heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Robyn A Clark;Sally C Inglis;Finlay A McAlister;John G F Cleland

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew L. Clark
Andrew L. Clark University of Hull
Marco Metra
Marco Metra University of Brescia
Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
Piotr Ponikowski
Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen University Medical Center Groningen
Kenneth Dickstein
Kenneth Dickstein University of Bergen
Gerasimos Filippatos
Gerasimos Filippatos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
John R. Teerlink
John R. Teerlink University of California, San Francisco
John J.V. McMurray
John J.V. McMurray University of Glasgow
Faiez Zannad
Faiez Zannad University of Lorraine

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