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Takayoshi Ohkubo

Takayoshi Ohkubo

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Medicine
Japan
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
118
Citations
127053
World Ranking
3950
National Ranking
80

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Takayoshi Ohkubo is affiliated with Teikyo University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a strong focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Sodium Intake and Health
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins

Takayoshi Ohkubo has published extensively in several key journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Journal of Hypertension
  • Hypertension Research
  • Journal of Clinical Hypertension
  • Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • Journal of Epidemiology

Several notable recent publications include:

  • 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
  • Hypertension and related diseases in the era of COVID-19: a report from the Japanese Society of Hypertension Task Force on COVID-19, 2020, Hypertension Research
  • Cuffless blood pressure measuring devices: review and statement by the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability, 2022, Journal of Hypertension
  • Home blood pressure monitoring: methodology, clinical relevance and practical application: a 2021 position paper by the Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring and Cardiovascular Variability of the European Society of Hypertension, 2021, Journal of Hypertension

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kei Asayama
  • Yutaka Imai
  • Michihiro Satoh
  • Katsuyuki Miura
  • Masahiro Kikuya

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis.

    Kunihiro Matsushita;Marije van der Velde;Brad C. Astor;Mark Woodward

  • Randomised trial of a perindopril-based blood-pressure-lowering regimen among 6105 individuals with previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack

    S. MacMahon;B. Neal;C. Tzourio;A. Rodgers

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global Burden of Hypertension and Systolic Blood Pressure of at Least 110 to 115 mm Hg, 1990-2015

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Patrick Liu;Gregory A. Roth;Marie Ng

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa;Megan S. Coggeshall;Katya A. Shackelford

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • European Society of Hypertension Position Paper on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring

    Eoin O’Brien;Gianfranco Parati;George Stergiou;Roland Asmar

  • Prognostic significance of the nocturnal decline in blood pressure in individuals with and without high 24-h blood pressure: the Ohasama study.

    Takayoshi Ohkubo;Atsushi Hozawa;Junko Yamaguchi;Masahiro Kikuya

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension (JSH 2019)

    Satoshi Umemura;Hisatomi Arima;Shuji Arima;Kei Asayama

  • Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990???2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Katrina F. Ortblad;Caterina Guinovart;Stephen S. Lim

  • European Society of Hypertension practice guidelines for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

    Gianfranco Parati;George S. Stergiou;Eoin O'Brien;Roland P Asmar

  • Home blood pressure measurement has a stronger predictive power for mortality than does screening blood pressure measurement: a population-based observation in Ohasama, Japan

    Takayoshi Ohkubo;Yutaka Imai;Ichiro Tsuji;Kenichi Nagai

  • Prognostic accuracy of day versus night ambulatory blood pressure: a cohort study

    José Boggia;Yan Li;Lutgarde Thijs;Tine W Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Yutaka Imai
Yutaka Imai Tohoku University
Katsuyuki Miura
Katsuyuki Miura Shiga University of Medical Science
Hirotsugu Ueshima
Hirotsugu Ueshima Shiga University of Medical Science
Ichiro Tsuji
Ichiro Tsuji Tohoku University
Tomonori Okamura
Tomonori Okamura Keio University
Eoin O'Brien
Eoin O'Brien University College Dublin
Kazuomi Kario
Kazuomi Kario Jichi Medical University
Ji-Guang Wang
Ji-Guang Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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