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Shizuya Yamashita

Shizuya Yamashita

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Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
54364
World Ranking
7816
National Ranking
193

Overview

Shizuya Yamashita is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has published extensively in the field of medicine with a primary focus on cardiology, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases. Their research includes 76 publications predominantly in medicine, with significant contributions in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, molecular biology, and oncology.

Their main topics of research encompass lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, cardiovascular function and risk factors, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), heart failure treatment and management, diabetes treatment and management, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and cancer related to lipids and metabolism.

Yamashita's recent papers include the following:

  • Pemafibrate, a New Selective PPARα Modulator: Drug Concept and Its Clinical Applications for Dyslipidemia and Metabolic Diseases (2020), published in Current Atherosclerosis Reports
  • Combination of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratios as a Novel Predictor of Cardiac Death in Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure With Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: A Multicenter Study (2022), published in Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Effects of pemafibrate on glucose metabolism markers and liver function tests in patients with hypertriglyceridemia: a pooled analysis of six phase 2 and phase 3 randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trials (2021), published in Cardiovascular Diabetology
  • Lowering Uric Acid May Improve Prognosis in Patients With Hyperuricemia and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (2022), published in Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Novel Selective PPARα Modulator Pemafibrate for Dyslipidemia, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), and Atherosclerosis (2023), published in Metabolites

The frequent co-authors of Yamashita include:

  • Yasushi Sakata
  • Daisaku Masuda
  • Shungo Hikoso
  • Shunsuke Tamaki
  • Takahisa Yamada

Yamashita has published multiple articles in several notable journals, including:

  • Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis (8 publications)
  • Metabolites (3 publications)
  • Journal of the American Heart Association (2 publications)
  • Cardiovascular Diabetology (2 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Paradoxical decrease of an adipose-specific protein, adiponectin, in obesity.

    Yukio Arita;Shinji Kihara;Noriyuki Ouchi;Masahiko Takahashi

  • Plasma Concentrations of a Novel, Adipose-Specific Protein, Adiponectin, in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

    Kikuko Hotta;Tohru Funahashi;Yukio Arita;Masahiko Takahashi

  • Novel Modulator for Endothelial Adhesion Molecules: Adipocyte-Derived Plasma Protein Adiponectin

    Noriyuki Ouchi;Shinji Kihara;Yukio Arita;Kazuhisa Maeda

  • Visfatin: a protein secreted by visceral fat that mimics the effects of insulin.

    Atsunori Fukuhara;Morihiro Matsuda;Masako Nishizawa;Katsumori Segawa

  • Adipocyte-Derived Plasma Protein, Adiponectin, Suppresses Lipid Accumulation and Class A Scavenger Receptor Expression in Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages

    Noriyuki Ouchi;Shinji Kihara;Yukio Arita;Makoto Nishida

  • Enhanced expression of PAI-1 in visceral fat: possible contributor to vascular disease in obesity

    I Shimomura;T Funahashi;M Takahashi;K Maeda

  • Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity

    Robert Ross;Ian J. Neeland;Shizuya Yamashita;Iris Shai

  • Abdominal fat: standardized technique for measurement at CT.

    Tohru Yoshizumi;Tadashi Nakamura;Mitsukazu Yamane;Abdul Hasan M. Waliul Islam

  • Visceral and ectopic fat, atherosclerosis, and cardiometabolic disease: a position statement

    Ian J. Neeland;Robert Ross;Jean Pierre Després;Yuji Matsuzawa

  • An adipocyte-derived plasma protein, adiponectin, adheres to injured vascular walls.

    Y. Okamoto;Y. Arita;M. Nishida;M. Muraguchi

  • Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases 2017.

    Makoto Kinoshita;Koutaro Yokote;Hidenori Arai;Mami Iida

  • Executive Summary of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan —2012 Version

    Tamio Teramoto;Jun Sasaki;Shun Ishibashi;Sadatoshi Birou

  • Integrated guidance on the care of familial hypercholesterolaemia from the International FH Foundation

    Gerald F. Watts;Samuel Gidding;Anthony S. Wierzbicki;Peter P. Toth

  • Genomic structure and mutations in adipose-specific gene, adiponectin

    M Takahashi;Y Arita;K Yamagata;Y Matsukawa

  • Clinical Genetic Testing for Familial Hypercholesterolemia: JACC Scientific Expert Panel.

    Amy C. Sturm;Joshua W. Knowles;Samuel S. Gidding;Zahid S. Ahmad

  • Reduced uptake of oxidized low density lipoproteins in monocyte-derived macrophages from CD36-deficient subjects.

    S Nozaki;H Kashiwagi;S Yamashita;T Nakagawa

  • Defining severe familial hypercholesterolaemia and the implications for clinical management: a consensus statement from the International Atherosclerosis Society Severe Familial Hypercholesterolemia Panel

    Raul D Santos;Samuel S Gidding;Robert A Hegele;Marina A Cuchel

  • Genetic Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Deficiency Is Extremely Frequent in the Omagari Area of Japan: Marked Hyperalphalipoproteinemia Caused by CETP Gene Mutation Is Not Associated With Longevity

    Ken-ichi Hirano;Shizuya Yamashita;Norimichi Nakajima;Takeshi Arai

  • Effect of visceral fat accumulation on uric acid metabolism in male obese subjects: Visceral fat obesity is linked more closely to overproduction of uric acid than subcutaneous fat obesity

    Fumihiko Matsuura;Shizuya Yamashita;Tadashi Nakamura;Makoto Nishida

  • Visfatin : A protein secreted by visceral fat that mimics the effects of insulin

    Atsunori Fukuhara;Morihiro Matsuda;Masako Nishizawa;Katsumori Segawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuji Matsuzawa
Yuji Matsuzawa Sumitomo Hospital
Shinji Kihara
Shinji Kihara Osaka University
Tohru Funahashi
Tohru Funahashi Osaka University
Shun Ishibashi
Shun Ishibashi Jichi Medical University
Hidenori Arai
Hidenori Arai Kyoto University
Seiichiro Tarui
Seiichiro Tarui Osaka University
Iichiro Shimomura
Iichiro Shimomura Osaka University
Issei Komuro
Issei Komuro University of Tokyo
Eiichi Araki
Eiichi Araki Kumamoto University
Tomonori Okamura
Tomonori Okamura Keio University

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