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Overview

Stefan D. Anker is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their academic work primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Physiology, and Hematology. These subfields reflect the multidisciplinary nature of their research, which spans clinical and physiological aspects.

The main topics covered by Stefan D. Anker's research include:

  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies

Their publication record features contributions to several prominent medical journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure (88 publications)
  • European Heart Journal (38 publications)
  • Circulation (31 publications)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (27 publications)
  • ESC Heart Failure (21 publications)

Stefan D. Anker has been involved in authoring a number of papers including:

  • "Corrigendum to: 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: Developed by the Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) With the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.", 2021, PubMed
  • "2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure", 2021, European Heart Journal
  • "Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction", 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Effect of Finerenone on Chronic Kidney Disease Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes", 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure", 2021, European Journal of Heart Failure

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Gerasimos Filippatos (186 joint works)
  • Javed Butler (126 joint works)
  • Peter Rossing (85 joint works)
  • Luís M. Ruilope (84 joint works)
  • Faïez Zannad (82 joint works)

Best Publications

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A Voors;Stefan D Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • 2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

    Giuseppe Mancia;Robert Fagard;Krzysztof Narkiewicz;Josep Redon

  • 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

    Piotr Ponikowski;Adriaan A. Voors;Stefan D. Anker;Héctor Bueno

  • ESC guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

    Stamatis Adamopoulos;Stefan D. Anker;Volkmar Falk;Lars Køber

  • Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease

    Paul M Ridker;Brendan M. Everett;Tom Thuren;Jean G. MacFadyen

  • ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2012

    John J.V. McMurray;Stamatis Adamopoulos;Stefan D. Anker;Angelo Auricchio

  • Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus

    Kenneth Ch. Fearon;Florian Strasser;Stefan D. Anker;Ingvar Bosaeus

  • Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action

    John E. Morley;Bruno Vellas;G. Abellan van Kan;Stefan D. Anker

  • Empagliflozin in heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction

    Stefan D Anker;Javed Butler;Gerasimos Filippatos;João P Ferreira

  • Cachexia: a new definition.

    William J. Evans;John E. Morley;Josep Argilés;Connie Bales

  • ESC Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD: the Task Force on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and developed in collaboration with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

    Lars Ryden;Peter J. Grant;Stefan D. Anker;Christian Berne

  • Ferric Carboxymaltose in Patients with Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency.

    Stefan D. Anker;Josep Comin Colet;Gerasimos Filippatos;Ronnie Willenheimer

  • The Seattle Heart Failure Model Prediction of Survival in Heart Failure

    Wayne C. Levy;Dariush Mozaffarian;David T. Linker;Santosh C. Sutradhar

  • Randomized trial to determine the effect of nebivolol on mortality and cardiovascular hospital admission in elderly patients with heart failure (SENIORS)

    Marcus D. Flather;Marcelo C. Shibata;Andrew J.S. Coats;Dirk J. Van Veldhuisen

  • 2014 ESC/ESA Guidelines on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management: The Joint Task Force on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA).

    Steen Dalby Kristensen;Juhani Knuuti;Antti Saraste;Stefan Anker

  • Wasting as independent risk factor for mortality in chronic heart failure.

    Stefan D. Anker;Stefan D. Anker;Piotr Ponikowski;Susan Varney;Tuan Peng Chua

  • Effect of nesiritide in patients with acute decompensated heart failure.

    C. M. O'Connor;R. C. Starling;A. F. Hernandez;P. W. Armstrong

  • Consensus definition of sarcopenia, cachexia and pre-cachexia: joint document elaborated by Special Interest Groups (SIG) "cachexia-anorexia in chronic wasting diseases" and "nutrition in geriatrics"

    M. Muscaritoli;S. D. Anker;J. Argiles;Z. Aversa

  • How to diagnose heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: the HFA-PEFF diagnostic algorithm: a consensus recommendation from the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

    Burkert Pieske;Carsten Tschöpe;Rudolf A de Boer;Alan G Fraser

  • Cardio-renal syndromes: report from the consensus conference of the acute dialysis quality initiative.

    Claudio Ronco;Peter R. McCullough;Stefan D. Anker;Inder Anand

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J.S. Coats
Andrew J.S. Coats The Heart Research Institute
Piotr Ponikowski
Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University
Gerasimos Filippatos
Gerasimos Filippatos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Stephan von Haehling
Stephan von Haehling University of Göttingen
Kenneth Dickstein
Kenneth Dickstein University of Bergen
Wolfram Doehner
Wolfram Doehner Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Philip A. Poole-Wilson
Philip A. Poole-Wilson National Institutes of Health
Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland University of Glasgow
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen University Medical Center Groningen

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