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Michael J. Pencina

Michael J. Pencina

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Medicine

D-Index
122
Citations
90112
World Ranking
3398
National Ranking
1869

Overview

Michael J. Pencina is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Artificial Intelligence, Surgery, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics: Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins; Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health; Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education; Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life; Cardiac Health and Mental Health; Machine Learning in Healthcare; and Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors.

Michael J. Pencina has a significant record of publication in notable venues. They have contributed extensively to JAMA, with 136 publications, followed by contributions to JAMA Cardiology (25), Circulation (8), UNC Libraries (7), and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (5).

Among their recent papers are:

  • Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association, 2023, Circulation
  • Overlap Weighting, 2020, JAMA
  • A Synopsis of the Evidence for the Science and Clinical Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association, 2023, Circulation
  • Development and Validation of the American Heart Association's PREVENT Equations, 2023, Circulation
  • Novel Prediction Equations for Absolute Risk Assessment of Total Cardiovascular Disease Incorporating Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association, 2023, Circulation

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors including Michael Berkwits, Annette Flanagin, Philip Greenland, Matthew L. Maciejewski, and Denise Scholtens, each with over a hundred shared publications.

Best Publications

  • General Cardiovascular Risk Profile for Use in Primary Care The Framingham Heart Study

    Ralph B. D’Agostino;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Michael J. Pencina;Philip A. Wolf

  • Evaluating the added predictive ability of a new marker: From area under the ROC curve to reclassification and beyond

    Michael J Pencina;Ralph B D'Agostino;Ramachandran S Vasan

  • Assessing the performance of prediction models: a framework for traditional and novel measures.

    Ewout W. Steyerberg;Andrew J. Vickers;Nancy R. Cook;Thomas Gerds

  • Vitamin D Deficiency and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

    Thomas J. Wang;Michael J. Pencina;Sarah L. Booth;Paul F. Jacques

  • Effect of Sitagliptin on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

    Jennifer B Green;M. Angelyn Bethel;Paul W Armstrong;John B Buse

  • Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Events The Framingham Heart Study

    Gary F. Mitchell;Shih-Jen Hwang;Ramachandran S. Vasan;Martin G. Larson

  • Extensions of net reclassification improvement calculations to measure usefulness of new biomarkers

    Michael J. Pencina;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Ewout W. Steyerberg

  • One-Year Cardiovascular Event Rates in Outpatients With Atherothrombosis

    Ph. Gabriel Steg;Deepak L. Bhatt;Peter W. F. Wilson;Ralph D’Agostino

  • Overall C as a measure of discrimination in survival analysis: model specific population value and confidence interval estimation

    Michael J. Pencina;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • On the C-statistics for evaluating overall adequacy of risk prediction procedures with censored survival data.

    Hajime Uno;Tianxi Cai;Michael J. Pencina;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Diagnostic Accuracy of Fractional Flow Reserve From Anatomic CT Angiography

    James K. Min;Jonathon Leipsic;Michael J. Pencina;Daniel S. Berman

  • Development of a risk score for atrial fibrillation (Framingham Heart Study): a community-based cohort study

    Renate B Schnabel;Lisa M Sullivan;Daniel Levy;Michael J Pencina

  • Predicting the 30-Year Risk of Cardiovascular Disease The Framingham Heart Study

    Michael J. Pencina;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Martin G. Larson;Joseph M. Massaro

  • Effect of Linagliptin vs Placebo on Major Cardiovascular Events in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and High Cardiovascular and Renal Risk: The CARMELINA Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Julio Rosenstock;Vlado Perkovic;Odd Erik Johansen;Mark E. Cooper

  • Prognostic Value of Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Sudden Death Risk in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Raymond H. Chan;Barry J. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Michael J. Pencina

  • Carotid-Wall Intima–Media Thickness and Cardiovascular Events

    Joseph F. Polak;Michael J. Pencina;Karol M. Pencina;Christopher J. O'Donnell

  • Increasing Cardiovascular Disease Burden Due to Diabetes Mellitus The Framingham Heart Study

    Caroline S. Fox;Sean Coady;Paul D. Sorlie;Ralph B. D’Agostino

  • Improved Cardiac Risk Assessment With Noninvasive Measures of Coronary Flow Reserve

    Venkatesh L. Murthy;Masanao Naya;Courtney R. Foster;Jon Hainer

  • Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium

    Alvaro Alonso;Bouwe P. Krijthe;Thor Aspelund;Katherine A. Stepas

  • Application of New Cholesterol Guidelines to a Population-Based Sample

    Michael J. Pencina;Ann Marie Navar-Boggan;Ralph B. D'Agostino;Ken Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Emelia J. Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin Boston University
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy National Institutes of Health
Caroline S. Fox
Caroline S. Fox MSD (United States)
Thomas J. Wang
Thomas J. Wang Vanderbilt University
Eric D. Peterson
Eric D. Peterson The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Donald E. Cutlip
Donald E. Cutlip Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Maciej Banach
Maciej Banach John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Ewout W. Steyerberg
Ewout W. Steyerberg Leiden University Medical Center

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