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Tomonori Okamura

Tomonori Okamura

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80
Citations
27231
World Ranking
16995
National Ranking
536

Overview

Tomonori Okamura is affiliated with Keio University in Japan and specializes in the field of Medicine with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their research encompasses aspects of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Physiology, and Surgery.

The researcher has contributed significantly to topics including Nutritional Studies and Diet, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, Sodium Intake and Health, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, and Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet.

Okamura's notable recent publications include:

  • Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases 2022, 2023, Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • Risk Factors Associated With Ischemic Stroke in Japanese Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Development of a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction Model Using the Suita Study, a Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in Japan, 2020, Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • The Risk of Fasting Triglycerides and its Related Indices for Ischemic Cardiovascular Diseases in Japanese Community Dwellers: the Suita Study, 2021, Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
  • Risk Classification for Metabolic Syndrome and the Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease in Japan With Low Prevalence of Obesity: A Pooled Analysis of 10 Prospective Cohort Studies, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association

Frequent collaborators include Katsuyuki Miura, Aya Kadota, Aya Hirata, Hirotsugu Ueshima, and Kazuyo Kuwabara.

Okamura's work is commonly published in specialized venues, with most contributions found in the Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, PubMed, and Hypertension Research.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Cardiovascular disease and risk factors in Asia: a selected review.

    Hirotsugu Ueshima;Akira Sekikawa;Akira Sekikawa;Katsuyuki Miura;Tanvir Chowdhury Turin

  • A simple method to estimate populational 24-h urinary sodium and potassium excretion using a casual urine specimen.

    Taichiro Tanaka;Tomonori Okamura;K. Miura;T. Kadowaki

  • 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

  • Vegetarian Diets and Blood Pressure: A Meta-analysis

    Yoko Yokoyama;Yoko Yokoyama;Kunihiro Nishimura;Neal D. Barnard;Neal D. Barnard;Misa Takegami

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Serum triglycerides and risk of coronary heart disease among Japanese men and women

    Hiroyasu Iso;Yoshihiko Naito;Shinichi Sato;Akihiko Kitamura

  • Linoleic Acid, Other Fatty Acids, and the Risk of Stroke

    Hiroyasu Iso;Shinichi Sato;Utako Umemura;Minako Kudo

  • Marine-Derived n-3 Fatty Acids and Atherosclerosis in Japanese, Japanese-American, and White Men: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Akira Sekikawa;J. David Curb;Hirotsugu Ueshima;Aiman El-Saed

  • Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for stroke death in Japan: NIPPON DATA80.

    Hirotsugu Ueshima;Sohel Reza Choudhury;Akira Okayama;Takehito Hayakawa

  • Serum total homocysteine concentrations and risk of stroke and its subtypes in Japanese.

    Hiroyasu Iso;Yuri Moriyama;Shinichi Sato;Akihiko Kitamura

  • Japanese men have larger areas of visceral adipose tissue than Caucasian men in the same levels of waist circumference in a population-based study

    T Kadowaki;A Sekikawa;K Murata;H Maegawa

  • Predicting Coronary Heart Disease Using Risk Factor Categories for a Japanese Urban Population, and Comparison with the Framingham Risk Score: The Suita Study

    Kunihiro Nishimura;Tomonori Okamura;Makoto Watanabe;Michikazu Nakai

  • The relationship between serum total cholesterol and all-cause or cause-specific mortality in a 17.3-year study of a Japanese cohort

    Tomonori Okamura;Hideo Tanaka;Naomi Miyamatsu;Takehito Hayakawa

  • Diagnostic criteria for dyslipidemia.

    Tamio Teramoto;Jun Sasaki;Shun Ishibashi;Sadatoshi Birou

  • Impact of High-Normal Blood Pressure on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in a Japanese Urban Cohort: The Suita Study

    Yoshihiro Kokubo;Kei Kamide;Tomonori Okamura;Makoto Watanabe

  • Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study

    Ervin R. Fox;J. Hunter Young;Yali Li;Albert W. Dreisbach

  • Guidelines for the Management of Familial Hypercholesterolemia

    Mariko Harada-Shiba;Hidenori Arai;Shinichi Oikawa;Takao Ohta

  • The Elderly: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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirotsugu Ueshima
Hirotsugu Ueshima Shiga University of Medical Science
Katsuyuki Miura
Katsuyuki Miura Shiga University of Medical Science
Takayoshi Ohkubo
Takayoshi Ohkubo Teikyo University
Yoshihiro Kokubo
Yoshihiro Kokubo University of Glasgow
Lewis H. Kuller
Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh
Hiroyasu Iso
Hiroyasu Iso Osaka University
Robert D. Abbott
Robert D. Abbott University of Virginia
Kim Sutton-Tyrrell
Kim Sutton-Tyrrell University of Pittsburgh
Shizuya Yamashita
Shizuya Yamashita Osaka University
Kamal Masaki
Kamal Masaki University of Hawaii at Manoa

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