OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Atherosclerosis is 39. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
High incidence of heart failure in elderly patients with diabetes admitted in internal medicine department	122
The emerging landscape of peptide-based inhibitors of PCSK9	106
The effect of LPA Thr3888Pro on lipoprotein(a) and coronary artery disease is modified by the LPA KIV-2 variant 4925G>A	92
The length of telomeres as an original biomarker of the risk of development of cardiovascular diseases and their complications	87
CCL3/CCR5 and CX3CL1/CX3CR1 chemokine interactions are involved in T-cell accumulation in human atherosclerotic plaques	86
Genetic analysis in Russian patients with familial hypercholesterolemia	84
Possible clinical usefulness of polygenic risk scores among patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	83
Role of fatty acids in the pathogenesis of ß-cell failure and Type-2 diabetes	73
Statin use is associated with less ST-elevation versus non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction in a nationwide study	71
Targeted proteomics and the presence of carotid plaques in subjects at low cardiovascular disease risk	70
Common perinatal characteristics and adverse obstetric complications leading to overweight in adolescence: Assessment of independent and shared maternal-offspring pathways	65
Comparison of cardiovascular prognosis between triglyceride variability and exposure estimate in diabetic patients	65
Lipid profile assessment as a factor of diabetic nephropathy progression	64
Do triglycerides have an influence on endothelial function detected by Laser Doppler flowmetry?	61
Influence of low glycemic index diet on inflammatory state and lipid parameters in patients with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease	60
Endothelial ACKR3 drives atherosclerosis by promoting immune cell adhesion to vascular endothelium	60
Age- and gender-specific lipid and lipoprotein levels and percentiles from the Thai National Health Examination Survey (NHES-VI) in Thailand	60
Aging accelerates atherosclerosis development in C57BL/6 mice upon PCSK9 overexpression	59
Antagonism of miR-148a attenuates the progression of atherosclerosis in APOBTGApobec-/-Ldlr+/- mice	59
The reliability of coronary artery calcium score in symptomatic patients: Questioning the “power of zero”	56
Does the lipoprotein(A) genotype influence the diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia?	55
Genome-wide association study on HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux capacity	54
Genetic risk score for human serum lipidome and its association with angiographic coronary artery disease	53
LATENT TB PREVALENCE AMONG DIABETICS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS	52
ELEVEN YEARS FOLLOW-UP OF 1351 YOUNG FH-INDIVIDUALS IN NORWAY	51

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY: ENHANCING VACCINE COVERAGE FOR CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE CONTROL	51
CLINICAL AND GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF LATE-ONSET LAL DEFICIENCY IN OMAN	50
Corrigendum to “The correlation between medial pattern of intracranial arterial calcification and white matter hyperintensities” [Atherosclerosis 381 (2023) 117247]	50
TNF-α/STEARATE INDUCED H3K9/18 HISTONE ACETYLATION AMPLIFIES IL-6 EXPRESSION IN ADIPOCYTES	49
THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF DIFFERENT GENETIC LIPID DISORDERS IN LEBANON	47
CARDIOVASCULAR MORBIDITYAMONG TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS IN INDIA: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY	46
ROLE OF PATIENT ADVOCATES IN SECURING APHERESIS ACCESS IN LEBANON	45
IMPACT OF CALEBIN-A ON KEY DIABETES-ASSOCIATED GENES	45
N-acetylcysteine therapy reduces major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus	44
Association of genetically predicted levels of circulating blood lipids with coronary artery disease incidence	43
Single-cell analysis uncovers osteoblast factor GDF10 as mediator of vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation associated with plaque rupture in human carotid artery disease	41
Editorial board	40
An upregulation of scube 2 expression in type 2 diabetes mellitus with dyslipidemia	39
Bioactive lipids and lipoprotein lipase in epicardial adipose tissue from patients with coronary artery disease: Unfolding a missing link	39
Evolocumab treatment in paediatric patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: Data from three pooled open-label studies	39