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Yutaka Imai

Yutaka Imai

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Medicine
Japan
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
107
Citations
57780
World Ranking
6130
National Ranking
137

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Yutaka Imai is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work spans a total of 187 publications primarily within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Research by Yutaka Imai addresses key topics including:

  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Sodium Intake and Health
  • Hormonal Regulation and Hypertension
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management

The scientist has published recent papers in notable journals such as The Lancet and the Journal of Hypertension. Some of their recent contributions include:

  • Pharmacological blood pressure lowering for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease across different levels of blood pressure, 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
  • Blood pressure variability: methodological aspects, clinical relevance and practical indications for management - a European Society of Hypertension position paper, 2023, 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
  • Blood pressure-lowering treatment for prevention of major cardiovascular diseases in people with and without type 2 diabetes: an individual participant-level data meta-analysis, 2022, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Yutaka Imai frequently collaborates with other researchers, with coauthors including Takayoshi Ohkubo, Kei Asayama, Masahiro Kikuya, Hirohito Metoki, and Michihiro Satoh.

The scientist's publications are concentrated in several important journals within the hypertension and cardiovascular fields, such as:

  • Journal of Hypertension
  • Hypertension Research
  • Journal of Clinical Hypertension
  • American Journal of Hypertension
  • Journal of Human Hypertension

Best Publications

  • 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

  • European Society of Hypertension recommendations for conventional, ambulatory and home blood pressure measurement.

    Eoin O'Brien;Roland Asmar;Lawrie Beilin;Yutaka Imai

  • 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 2009)

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

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

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

  • The Japanese Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (JSH 2014)

    Kazuaki Shimamoto;Katsuyuki Ando;Toshiro Fujita;Naoyuki Hasebe

  • 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

  • Practice guidelines of the European Society of Hypertension for clinic, ambulatory and self blood pressure measurement

    Eoin O'Brien;Roland Asmar;Lawrie Beilin;Yutaka Imai

  • European Society of Hypertension International Protocol revision 2010 for the validation of blood pressure measuring devices in adults

    Eoin O'Brien;Neil Atkins;George Stergiou;Nikos Karpettas

  • Prognostic significance of blood pressure and heart rate variabilities: the Ohasama study.

    Masahiro Kikuya;Atsushi Hozawa;Takayoshi Ohokubo;Ichiro Tsuji

  • Prognosis of "masked" hypertension and "white-coat" hypertension detected by 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring 10-year follow-up from the Ohasama study.

    Takayoshi Ohkubo;Masahiro Kikuya;Hirohito Metoki;Kei Asayama

  • European Society of Hypertension guidelines for blood pressure monitoring at home: a summary report of the Second International Consensus Conference on Home Blood Pressure Monitoring.

    Gianfranco Parati;George S. Stergiou;Roland Asmar;Grzegorz Bilo

  • Working Group on Blood Pressure Monitoring of the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol for validation of blood pressure measuring devices in adults

    Eoin O'Brien;Eoin O'Brien;Thomas Pickering;Thomas Pickering;Roland Asmar;Martin Myers;Martin Myers

  • Relation Between Nocturnal Decline in Blood Pressure and Mortality: The Ohasama Study

    Takayoshi Ohkubo;Yutaka Imai;Ichiro Tsuji;Kenichi Nagai

  • Erratum: The Japanese Society of hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension (Hypertension Research (2009) 32 (11-23) DOI: 10.1038/hr.2008.2)

    Toshio Ogihara;Kenjiro Kikuchi;Hiroaki Matsuoka;Toshiro Fujita

  • Prognostic Value of Reading-to-Reading Blood Pressure Variability Over 24 Hours in 8938 Subjects From 11 Populations

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

  • 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

    Kazem Rahimi;Zeinab Bidel;Milad Nazarzadeh;Emma Copland

  • European Society of Hypertension recommendations for conventional, ambulatory and home blood pressure

    Roland Asmar;Lawrie Beilin;Yutaka Imai;Jean-Michel Mallion

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayoshi Ohkubo
Takayoshi Ohkubo Teikyo University
Ichiro Tsuji
Ichiro Tsuji Tohoku University
Eoin O'Brien
Eoin O'Brien University College Dublin
Ji-Guang Wang
Ji-Guang Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tsutomu Araki
Tsutomu Araki Tohoku University
Sadayoshi Ito
Sadayoshi Ito Tohoku University
Tomohiro Katsuya
Tomohiro Katsuya Osaka University
Lars Lind
Lars Lind Uppsala University

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