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Kazuaki Shimamoto

Kazuaki Shimamoto

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Overview

Kazuaki Shimamoto is affiliated with Sapporo Medical University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, with a focus on epidemiology, cardiology, endocrinology, molecular biology, and public health. Their research encompasses several aspects of metabolic disorders, cardiovascular health, and liver disease diagnostics.

Their recent publications include work on diverse topics such as obesity and its biochemical impacts, cardiovascular disease risk classification, fatty acid-binding proteins, and COVID-19 related lung injury. Notable papers include:

  • Differential regulation of hypoxanthine and xanthine by obesity in a general population, 2020, Journal of Diabetes Investigation
  • Potential differential effects of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors on SARS-CoV-2 infection and lung injury in COVID-19, 2020, Hypertension Research
  • Risk Classification for Metabolic Syndrome and the Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease in Japan With Low Prevalence of Obesity: A Pooled Analysis of 10 Prospective Cohort Studies, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Elevated circulating FABP4 concentration predicts cardiovascular death in a general population: a 12-year prospective study, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Circulating level of fatty acid-binding protein 4 is an independent predictor of metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in middle-aged and elderly individuals, 2021, Journal of Diabetes Investigation

Shimamoto collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Masato Furuhashi, Masayuki Koyama, Yukimura Higashiura, Hirofumi Ohnishi, and Marenao Tanaka, reflecting ongoing partnerships in multiple research projects.

Research output is published in venues such as:

  • Hypertension Research
  • Journal of Diabetes Investigation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Scientific Reports
  • The American Journal of Cardiology

Their main fields of study highlight medicine in general, with specific subfields concentrating on epidemiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, and public health environmental and occupational health.

Key topics within Shimamoto's research include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors

Best Publications

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

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (JSH 2014)

    Kazuaki Shimamoto;Katsuyuki Ando;Toshiro Fujita;Naoyuki Hasebe

  • Nucleocytoplasmic Shuttling of the NAD+-dependent Histone Deacetylase SIRT1

    Masaya Tanno;Jun Sakamoto;Tetsuji Miura;Kazuaki Shimamoto

  • Blockade of the Renin-Angiotensin System Increases Adiponectin Concentrations in Patients With Essential Hypertension

    Masato Furuhashi;Nobuyuki Ura;Katsuhiro Higashiura;Hideyuki Murakami

  • 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

  • Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 4 (FABP4): Pathophysiological Insights and Potent Clinical Biomarker of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases.

    Masato Furuhashi;Shigeyuki Saitoh;Kazuaki Shimamoto;Tetsuji Miura

  • 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

  • Induction of manganese superoxide dismutase by nuclear translocation and activation of SIRT1 promotes cell survival in chronic heart failure.

    Masaya Tanno;Atsushi Kuno;Toshiyuki Yano;Tetsuji Miura

  • Voglibose for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomised, double-blind trial in Japanese individuals with impaired glucose tolerance

    Ryuzo Kawamori;Naoko Tajima;Yasuhiko Iwamoto;Atsunori Kashiwagi

  • 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

  • Large scale cohort study of the relationship between serum cholesterol concentration and coronary events with low-dose simvastatin therapy in Japanese patients with hypercholesterolemia.

    Masunori Matsuzaki;Toru Kita;Hiroshi Mabuchi;Yuji Matsuzawa

  • Nifedipine controlled-release 40 mg b.i.d. in Japanese patients with essential hypertension who responded insufficiently to nifedipine controlled-release 40 mg q.d.: a phase III, randomized, double-blind and parallel-group study

    Kazuaki Shimamoto;Naoyuki Hasebe;Sadayoshi Ito;Kazuomi Kario

  • High plasma immunoreactive leptin level in essential hypertension.

    Jun Agata;Atsushi Masuda;Mikio Takada;Katsuhiro Higashiura

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension Committee for Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Toshiro Fujita;Jitsuo Higaki

  • Modulation of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore complex in GSK-3β-mediated myocardial protection

    Masahiro Nishihara;Tetsuji Miura;Takayuki Miki;Masaya Tanno

  • Urinary Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 in Hypertensive Patients May Be Increased by Olmesartan, an Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker

    Masato Furuhashi;Norihito Moniwa;Tomohiro Mita;Takahiro Fuseya

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Dyslipidemia — 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

  • Influence of gender, age and renal function on plasma adiponectin level: the Tanno and Sobetsu study

    Takeshi Isobe;Shigeyuki Saitoh;Satoru Takagi;Hiroshi Takeuchi

  • Cardiac death prediction and impaired cardiac sympathetic innervation assessed by MIBG in patients with failing and nonfailing hearts

    Tomoaki Nakata;Kenjiroh Miyamoto;Atsushi Doi;Hisataka Sasao

  • Rationale, study design and implementation of the COLM study: the combination of OLMesartan and calcium channel blocker or diuretic in high-risk elderly hypertensive patients

    Toshio Ogihara;Takao Saruta;Hiromi Rakugi;Kazuaki Shimamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Ogihara
Toshio Ogihara Osaka University
Hiromi Rakugi
Hiromi Rakugi Osaka University
Masunori Matsuzaki
Masunori Matsuzaki Yamaguchi University
Sadayoshi Ito
Sadayoshi Ito Tohoku University
Hirotsugu Ueshima
Hirotsugu Ueshima Shiga University of Medical Science
Yoshiyuki Horio
Yoshiyuki Horio Sapporo Medical University
Takao Saruta
Takao Saruta Keio University
Toru Kita
Toru Kita Kyoto University
Tomohiro Katsuya
Tomohiro Katsuya Osaka University
Kazuyuki Shimada
Kazuyuki Shimada Nagoya University

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