OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Atherosclerosis is 37. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The importance of targeting epicardial adipose tissue to improve cardiovascular outcomes in diabetes mellitus	98
Editorial board	89
A five-year follow-up in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia patients of the Russian familial hypercholesterolemia registry	86
Long-term fasting effect on HDL cholesterol efflux and serum cholesterol loading capacity: Preliminary results from a single-arm interventional trial	85
Studies on lipoprotein(a) and outcomes in peripheral arterial disease: One must not compare apples with pears	68
Impact of weight loss after a bariatric surgery on the low-density lipoprotein-proteoglycan interaction	68
Metabolic syndrome is a determinant of serum apolipoprotein e response to sleeve gastrectomy	67
Signaling pathways in foam cell formation	64
Effective high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is associated with carotid intima-media thickness and vascular events after acute ischemic stroke	60
Advanced glycation products may be a good predictor of decreased cognition in elderly people with diabetes	59
Risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with genetically verified familial hypercholesterolemia and mental illness	54
Consensus panel about implementation of guidelines on lipid-lowering management after acute coronary syndrome and up to one year follow-up	53
The association of blood lipids levels with vitamin status of young and healthy adults	52
Lower LDL-C target-goal achievements in patients with acute cerebral infarction combined with type 2 diabetes	51
The role of tumor-necrosis receptor associated factor 1 (TRAF-1) and 5 (TRAF-5) in platelet activation	49
Modeling of intra-arterial hemodynamics in the atheroma progression	48
Association between a polygenic and family risk score on the prevalence and incidence of myocardial infarction in the KORA-F3 study	47
Tim-1 mucin domain-mutant mice display exacerbated atherosclerosis	47
Soluble endoglin is a biomarker of various types of liver damage	47
Adherence to Life's simple 7 is associated with better carotid properties	45
Clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with elevated Lp (a) in the Czech Republic	45
Evaluating coronary atherosclerosis progression among South Asians	44
Actual data on the apolipoprotein B part transported with lipoprotein(a)	44
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease is higher in patients with bilateral low ankle-brachial index than in patients with unilateral low ankle-brachial index	42
Gene set analysis of transcriptomics data identifies new biological processes associated with early markers of atherosclerosis but not with those of osteoporosis: Atherosclerosis-osteoporosis co/multi	42

Nanopore sequencing with unique molecular identifiers preserves SNP haplotypes of the LPA KIV-2 copy number variation	42
Association of desphospho-uncarboxylated matrix gla protein with incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: Results from the prospective Bruneck Study	42
Are endogenous sex hormones important for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk in men?	41
Icosapent ethyl supplementation rapidly reduces cardiovascular disease risk markers and improves plasma and lipoprotein lipidome reducing their atherogenicity in humans	40
In vitro extracellular vesicles' heterogeneity-related biological properties may be defined by a new method of separation and characterization	39
Interpretation of the structure-function relationships in synthetic HDL nanodiscs	39
Atherosclerosis in Brazil: An ecological study	38
A murine model to study neoatherosclerosis after angioplasty: Impact of diabetes on arterial lesion	38
Liver transplantation for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: Cure for a genetic disease?	38
Lipid-soluble cigarette smoke particles induced vascular endothelin type B receptor regulation through AMPK-SIRT1 and ERK1/2 signal pathways.	38
SNPs and haplotypes in the CETP gene and their effects on cardiovascular risk estimated by FRS and score in the Hungarian general and Roma populations	38
The impact of cholesterol lowering drugs on metabolism and epigenetics	38
Altered total fecal oxalate-degrading activity is associated with atherosclerosis and systemic inflammation in end-stage renal disease patients	37
Collaboration of clinic and Biobank as an effective model for dyslipidemia research	37
The effect of interleukins on the accumulation of cholesterol in macrophages obtained from donors	37