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Medicine
Sweden
2023

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Medicine

D-Index
119
Citations
51798
World Ranking
3902
National Ranking
78

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Ulf Smith is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans a range of subfields, including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Cancer Research.

Their scientific output addresses several main topics, notably Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases, RNA Modifications and Cancer, and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Microbiota-Related Metabolites and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes," 2020, Diabetes Care
  • "Cellular senescence and its role in white adipose tissue," 2021, International Journal of Obesity
  • "Increased cell senescence in human metabolic disorders," 2023, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "BMP4 and Gremlin 1 regulate hepatic cell senescence during clinical progression of NAFLD/NASH," 2022, Nature Metabolism
  • "Genome-Wide Association Study of Peripheral Artery Disease," 2021, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Ulf Smith include Rosa Spinelli, Francesco Bèguinot, Annika Nerstedt, Aidin Rawshani, and Ritesh K. Baboota.

Their research has been published multiple times in journals such as Diabetes, Scientific Reports, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine, Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling, and Molecular Metabolism.

Best Publications

  • Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial.

    John A. Dormandy;Bernard Charbonnel;David J A Eckland;Erland Erdmann

  • Impact of obesity on metabolism in men and women. Importance of regional adipose tissue distribution.

    Marcin Krotkiewski;Per Bjorntorp;Lars Sjostrom;Ulf Smith

  • Retinol-Binding Protein 4 and Insulin Resistance in Lean, Obese, and Diabetic Subjects

    Timothy E. Graham;Qin Yang;Matthias Blüher;Ann Hammarstedt

  • Interleukin-6 (IL-6) Induces Insulin Resistance in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes and Is, Like IL-8 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α, Overexpressed in Human Fat Cells from Insulin-resistant Subjects

    Victoria Rotter;Ivan Nagaev;Ulf Smith

  • Resistin, an adipokine with potent proinflammatory properties

    Maria Bokarewa;Ivan Nagaev;Leif Dahlberg;Ulf Smith

  • A microdialysis method allowing characterization of intercellular water space in humans

    P. Lonnroth;P. A. Jansson;U. Smith

  • Discovery of a class of endogenous mammalian lipids with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory effects

    Mark M. Yore;Ismail Syed;Pedro M. Moraes-Vieira;Tejia Zhang

  • Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes Are Not Related to Resistin Expression in Human Fat Cells or Skeletal Muscle

    Ivan Nagaev;Ulf Smith

  • Inflamed Adipose Tissue A Culprit Underlying the Metabolic Syndrome and Atherosclerosis

    Birgit Gustafson;Ann Hammarstedt;Christian X. Andersson;Ulf Smith

  • Fat cell metabolism in different regions in women. Effect of menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and lactation.

    M Rebuffé-Scrive;L Enk;N Crona;P Lönnroth

  • Smoking induces insulin resistance--a potential link with the insulin resistance syndrome.

    S Attvall;J Fowelin;I Lager;H Von Schenck

  • One-year treatment with exenatide improves beta-cell function, compared with insulin glargine, in metformin-treated type 2 diabetic patients: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Mathijs C. M. Bunck;Michaela Diamant;Anja Cornér;Björn Eliasson

  • Insulin Action and Age: European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance (EGIR)

    E Ferrannini;S Vichi;H Beck-Nielsen;M Laakso

  • Abdominal obesity is associated with an impaired fibrinolytic activity and elevated plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.

    Kerstin Landin;Lennart Stigendal;Elsa Eriksson;Marcin Krotkiewski

  • Adipose tissue regulates insulin sensitivity: role of adipogenesis, de novo lipogenesis and novel lipids

    Ulf Smith;Barbara B. Kahn

  • Plasma Osteocalcin Is Inversely Related to Fat Mass and Plasma Glucose in Elderly Swedish Men

    Jenny M Kindblom;Claes Ohlsson;Östen Ljunggren;Magnus K Karlsson

  • Impaired Preadipocyte Differentiation in Human Abdominal Obesity: Role of Wnt, Tumor Necrosis Factor-α, and Inflammation

    Petter Isakson;Ann Hammarstedt;Birgit Gustafson;Ulf Smith

  • Elevated fibrinogen and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in hypertension are related to metabolic risk factors for cardiovascular disease

    K. Landin;L. Tengborn;U. Smith

  • Does diabetes therapy influence the risk of cancer

    Ulf Smith;Edwin A. M. Gale

  • Insulin resistance and impaired adipogenesis.

    Birgit Gustafson;Shahram Hedjazifar;Silvia Gogg;Ann Hammarstedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Björntorp
Per Björntorp University of Gothenburg
Markku Laakso
Markku Laakso University of Eastern Finland
Marja-Riitta Taskinen
Marja-Riitta Taskinen University of Helsinki
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Lars Sjöström
Lars Sjöström University of Gothenburg
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Alena Stančáková
Alena Stančáková University of Eastern Finland
Adil Mardinoglu
Adil Mardinoglu Royal Institute of Technology
Hannele Yki-Järvinen
Hannele Yki-Järvinen University of Helsinki
Johanna Kuusisto
Johanna Kuusisto University of Eastern Finland

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