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Overview

Naveed Sattar is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with extensive work in the subfields of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Physiology, and Epidemiology.

The topics that dominate their research include Diabetes Treatment and Management, Diabetes Management and Research, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors.

Recent notable publications by Naveed Sattar include:

  • Cardiovascular, mortality, and kidney outcomes with GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials, 2021, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Additional influential papers in related fields co-authored by or linked with Sattar's research include:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes, 2023, European Heart Journal

Sattar's frequent co-authors are Paul Welsh, Jill P. Pell, Carlos Celis-Morales, Frederick K. Ho, and Jason M. R. Gill.

Their work has been published often in journals such as Circulation, Diabetes Care, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, and Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism.

Naveed Sattar has been recognized with fellowships from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012 and The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (Version 2012)

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes;Stefan Agewall;Christian Albus

  • Diabetes mellitus, fasting blood glucose concentration, and risk of vascular disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 102 prospective studies

    N Sarwar;P Gao;Seshasai Srk.

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

    Frank L J Visseren;François Mach;Yvo M Smulders;David Carballo

  • 2019 ESC Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD

    Francesco Cosentino;Peter J Grant;Victor Aboyans;Clifford J Bailey

  • Major lipids, apolipoproteins, and risk of vascular disease

    E Di Angelantonio;N Sarwar;P Perry

  • Statins and risk of incident diabetes: a collaborative meta-analysis of randomised statin trials

    Naveed Sattar;David Preiss;Heather M Murray;Paul Welsh

  • Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death.

    Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai;Stephen Kaptoge;Alexander Thompson;Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial

    Michael Ej Lean;Wilma S Leslie;Alison C Barnes;Naomi Brosnahan

  • EULAR evidence-based recommendations for cardiovascular risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of inflammatory arthritis

    M J Peters;D P M Symmons;D McCarey;B A Dijkmans

  • Metabolic Syndrome With and Without C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

    Naveed Sattar;Allan Gaw;Olga Scherbakova;Ian Ford

  • Risk of Incident Diabetes With Intensive-Dose Compared With Moderate-Dose Statin Therapy A Meta-analysis

    David Preiss;Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai;Paul Welsh;Sabina A. Murphy

  • Effect of intensive control of glucose on cardiovascular outcomes and death in patients with diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

    Kausik K Ray;Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai;Shanelle Wijesuriya;Rupa Sivakumaran

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Separate and combined associations of body-mass index and abdominal adiposity with cardiovascular disease: collaborative analysis of 58 prospective studies

    D Wormser;S Kaptoge;E Di Angelantonio

  • 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of 10 societies and by invited experts): Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR).

    Massimo F. Piepoli;Arno W. Hoes

  • Stains and risk of incident diabetes: a collaborative meta-analysis of randomised statin trials

    Naveed Sattar;David Preiss;Heather M. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Welsh
Paul Welsh University of Glasgow
Ian Ford
Ian Ford University of Glasgow
J. Wouter Jukema
J. Wouter Jukema Leiden University Medical Center
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Stella Trompet
Stella Trompet Leiden University Medical Center
Peter H. Whincup
Peter H. Whincup St George's, University of London
Jason M. R. Gill
Jason M. R. Gill University of Glasgow
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Chris J. Packard
Chris J. Packard Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Jill P. Pell
Jill P. Pell University of Glasgow

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