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Kerstin Brismar

Kerstin Brismar

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21845
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Overview

Kerstin Brismar is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on subfields such as physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology.

The main topics addressed in Brismar's research include diet, metabolism, and disease; lipid metabolism and disorders; regulation of appetite and obesity; dietary effects on health; pancreatic function and diabetes; diet and metabolism studies; and gestational diabetes research and management.

Brismar has contributed publications to several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Antioxidants
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Nutrients
  • JAMA Network Open

Notable recent papers include:

  • Associations of Different Types of Maternal Diabetes and Body Mass Index With Offspring Psychiatric Disorders, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Diabetes downregulates the antimicrobial peptide psoriasin and increases E. coli burden in the urinary bladder, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Selenium and Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation Improves Renal Function in Elderly Deficient in Selenium: Observational Results and Results from a Subgroup Analysis of a Prospective Randomised Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial, 2020, Nutrients
  • Effects of a three-armed randomised controlled trial using self-monitoring of daily steps with and without counselling in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes-the Sophia Step Study, 2021, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Type 2 diabetes risk in sarcoidosis patients untreated and treated with corticosteroids, 2021, ERJ Open Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brismar include:

  • Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina
  • Neda Rajamand Ekberg
  • Henrik Falhammar
  • Thomas Nyström
  • Anton Hellberg

The scope of Brismar's work incorporates epidemiological studies alongside clinical and molecular biology research. Their contributions reflect a multidisciplinary approach integrating physiology, metabolism, infectious components related to diabetes, and supplementation effects in elderly populations.

Best Publications

  • Treatment With Dietary trans10cis12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid Causes Isomer-Specific Insulin Resistance in Obese Men With the Metabolic Syndrome

    Ulf Risérus;Peter Arner;Kerstin Brismar;Bengt Vessby

  • Stabilization of HIF-1α is critical to improve wound healing in diabetic mice

    Ileana Ruxandra Botusan;Vivekananda Gupta Sunkari;Octavian Savu;Anca Irinel Catrina

  • Nutritional Status Using Mini Nutritional Assessment and Subjective Global Assessment Predict Mortality in Geriatric Patients

    Margareta D. Persson;Kerstin E. Brismar;Krassimir S. Katzarski;Krassimir S. Katzarski;Jörgen Nordenström

  • Elevated levels of insulin, leptin, and blood lipids in olanzapine-treated patients with schizophrenia or related psychoses.

    Kristina I. Melkersson;Anna-Lena Hulting;Kerstin E. Brismar

  • Hyperglycemia Regulates Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α Protein Stability and Function

    Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina;Kensaku Okamoto;Teresa Pereira;Kerstin Brismar

  • Effect of insulin on the hepatic production of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1), IGFBP-3, and IGF-I in insulin-dependent diabetes

    K Brismar;E Fernqvist-Forbes;J Wahren;K Hall

  • Transcutaneous oxygen tension and toe blood pressure as predictors for outcome of diabetic foot ulcers.

    M Kalani;K Brismar;B Fagrell;J Ostergren

  • Diabetes mellitus and risk of bladder cancer : a meta-analysis

    S. C. Larsson;N. Orsini;K. Brismar;A. Wolk

  • Interaction with factor inhibiting HIF-1 defines an additional mode of cross-coupling between the Notch and hypoxia signaling pathways

    Xiaofeng Zheng;Sarah Linke;José M. Dias;Xiaowei Zheng

  • Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy in treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. Long-term follow-up.

    Majid Kalani;Gun Jörneskog;Nazanin Naderi;Folke Lind

  • New susceptibility loci associated with kidney disease in type 1 diabetes.

    Niina Sandholm;Niina Sandholm;Rany M. Salem;Rany M. Salem;Amy Jayne McKnight;Eoin P. Brennan

  • Genetic and environmental architecture of the features of the insulin-resistance syndrome.

    Y Hong;N L Pedersen;K Brismar;U de Faire

  • Inhibited proliferation of fibroblasts derived from chronic diabetic wounds and normal dermal fibroblasts treated with high glucose is associated with increased formation of L-lactate

    Karin Hehenberger;Johan D. Heilborn;Kerstin Brismar;Anders Hansson

  • Gender differences in self-rated health, quality of life, quality of care, and metabolic control in patients with diabetes

    Anna Lena Undén;Stig Elofsson;Anna Andréasson;Eva Hillered

  • Elevated Hip Fracture Risk in Type 1 Diabetic Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Sweden

    Junmei Miao;Kerstin Brismar;Olof Nyrén;Anna Ugarph-Morawski

  • Different influences of classical antipsychotics and clozapine on glucose-insulin homeostasis in patients with schizophrenia or related psychoses.

    Kristina I. Melkersson;Anna-Lena Hulting;Kerstin E. Brismar

  • Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level predicts progression to type 2 diabetes in individuals with prediabetes but not with normal glucose tolerance

    A. Deleskog;A. Hilding;K. Brismar;A. Hamsten

  • Sagittal Abdominal Diameter Is a Strong Anthropometric Marker of Insulin Resistance and Hyperproinsulinemia in Obese Men

    Ulf Risérus;Johan Ärnlöv;Kerstin Brismar;Björn Zethelius

  • Quantitative Genetic Analyses of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I (IGF-I), IGF-binding protein-1, and Insulin Levels in Middle-Aged and Elderly Twins

    Y Hong;N L Pedersen;K Brismar;K Hall

  • Altered relation between circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 and insulin in growth hormone-deficient patients and insulin-dependent diabetic patients compared to that in healthy subjects.

    A Hilding;K Brismar;M Degerblad;M Thorén

Frequent Co-Authors

Suad Efendic
Suad Efendic Karolinska Institute
Gustav Dallner
Gustav Dallner Karolinska Institute
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Fredrik Karpe
Fredrik Karpe University of Oxford
Lars Rydén
Lars Rydén Karolinska Institute
Gisela Dahlquist
Gisela Dahlquist Umeå University
Peter Rossing
Peter Rossing University of Copenhagen
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten Karolinska Institute
Olle Ljungqvist
Olle Ljungqvist Örebro University
Per-Henrik Groop
Per-Henrik Groop University of Helsinki

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