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139
Citations
74337
World Ranking
1755
National Ranking
1003

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Robert W. Schrier was affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of medicine, with a significant concentration in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their scholarly work also touched on endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, computer vision and pattern recognition, cancer research, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The main topics covered in their publications included blood pressure and hypertension studies, heart rate variability and autonomic control, hormonal regulation and hypertension, cardiac health and mental health, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, advanced neural network applications, and medical image segmentation techniques.

Among recent papers, notable works included:

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • Age-stratified and blood-pressure-stratified effects of blood-pressure-lowering pharmacotherapy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet
  • Antihypertensive treatment and risk of cancer: an individual participant data meta-analysis, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • Blood pressure-lowering treatment for prevention of major cardiovascular diseases in people with and without type 2 diabetes: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2022, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Deep Learning-Based Automated Imaging Classification of ADPKD, 2024, Kidney International Reports

Frequent co-authors in their work included Mark Woodward, Sverre E. Kjeldsen, John Chalmers, Barry R. Davis, and Kazem Rahimi.

Their research was published in respected venues such as:

  • The Lancet
  • The Lancet Oncology
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Kidney International Reports
  • European Heart Journal

Robert W. Schrier was recognized by professional organizations, being a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1988 and a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1986. They were also a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Peripheral arterial vasodilation hypothesis: a proposal for the initiation of renal sodium and water retention in cirrhosis.

    Robert W. Schrier;Vicente Arroyo;Mauro Bernardi;Murray Epstein

  • National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Geriatric Assessment Methods for Clinical Decision‐making

    A. Sue Brown;Kenneth Brummel-Smith;Lavola Burgess;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • The Effect of Nisoldipine as Compared with Enalapril on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Hypertension

    Raymond O. Estacio;Barrett W. Jeffers;William R. Hiatt;Stacy L. Biggerstaff

  • Acute renal failure and sepsis.

    Robert W. Schrier;Wei Wang

  • Hormones and Hemodynamics in Heart Failure

    Robert W. Schrier;William T. Abraham

  • Tolvaptan, a selective oral vasopressin V2-receptor antagonist, for hyponatremia.

    Robert W. Schrier;Robert W. Schrier;Peter Gross;Mihai Gheorghiade;Tomas Berl

  • Effects of aggressive blood pressure control in normotensive type 2 diabetic patients on albuminuria, retinopathy and strokes

    Robert W. Schrier;Raymond O. Estacio;Anne Esler;Philip Mehler

  • Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Hyponatremia: Expert Panel Recommendations

    Joseph G. Verbalis;Steven R. Goldsmith;Arthur Greenberg;Cynthia Korzelius

  • Acute renal failure: definitions, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and therapy

    Robert W. Schrier;Wei Wang;Brian Poole;Amit Mitra

  • Renal Failure in Cirrhosis

    Pere Ginès;Robert W. Schrier

  • Effect of blood pressure control on diabetic microvascular complications in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes

    Raymond O. Estacio;Barrett W. Jeffers;Nancy Gifford;Robert W. Schrier

  • The human costs of tobacco use (1)

    Carl E. Bartecchi;Thomas D. MacKenzie;Robert W. Schrier

  • Glomerular hyperfiltration: definitions, mechanisms and clinical implications

    Imed Helal;Godela M. Fick-Brosnahan;Berenice Reed-Gitomer;Robert W. Schrier

  • Pathogenesis of sodium and water retention in high-output and low-output cardiac failure, nephrotic syndrome, cirrhosis, and pregnancy (2)

    Robert W. Schrier

  • Temporal relationships between hormonal and hemodynamic changes in early human pregnancy.

    Arlene B. Chapman;William T. Abraham;Stacy Zamudio;Carolyn Coffin

  • Impaired IL-18 processing protects caspase-1–deficient mice from ischemic acute renal failure

    Vyacheslav Y. Melnikov;Tevfik Ecder;Giamila Fantuzzi;Britta Siegmund

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis

    Kazem Rahimi;Zeinab Bidel;Milad Nazarzadeh;Emma Copland

  • Role of diminished renal function in cardiovascular mortality: marker or pathogenetic factor?

    Robert W. Schrier

  • Nitric Oxide as a Mediator of Hemodynamic Abnormalities and Sodium and Water Retention in Cirrhosis

    Pierre-Yves Martin;Pere Ginès;Robert W. Schrier

  • Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD): executive summary from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference

    Arlene B. Chapman;Olivier Devuyst;Kai-Uwe Eckardt;Ron T. Gansevoort

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles L. Edelstein
Charles L. Edelstein University of Colorado Denver
Arlene B. Chapman
Arlene B. Chapman University of Chicago
Raphael A. Nemenoff
Raphael A. Nemenoff University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
William T. Abraham
William T. Abraham The Ohio State University
Pere Ginès
Pere Ginès University of Barcelona
Chirag R. Parikh
Chirag R. Parikh Johns Hopkins University
Peter C. Harris
Peter C. Harris Mayo Clinic
Kyongtae T. Bae
Kyongtae T. Bae University of Pittsburgh
Jared J. Grantham
Jared J. Grantham University of Kansas

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