OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care is 10. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanism of TGIF1 on glycolipid metabolism disorders in mice with type 2 diabetes	91
Role of 2-hour plasma glucose in assessing pre-diabetes risk: insights from the vitamin D and type 2 diabetes (D2d) study cohort	74
Quantification of the relation between continuous glucose monitoring observation period and the estimation error in assessing long-term glucose regulation	58
Retraction: Circulating long non-coding RNAs NKILA, NEAT1, MALAT1, and MIAT expression and their association in type 2 diabetes mellitus	54
Clinical phenotyping of people living with type 1 diabetes according to their levels of diabetes-related distress: results from the SFDT1 cohort	52
Development of a 5-year risk prediction model for type 2 diabetes in individuals with incident HbA1c-defined pre-diabetes in Denmark	49
Barriers and enablers to diabetic retinopathy screening: a cross-sectional survey of young adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the UK	48
Ethnic disparities in HbA1c and hypoglycemia among youth with type 1 diabetes: beyond access to technology, social deprivation and mean blood glucose	45
Clinical and biochemical profile of 786 sequential episodes of diabetic ketoacidosis in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus	45
Nicorandil attenuates high glucose-induced insulin resistance by suppressing oxidative stress-mediated ER stress PERK signaling pathway	43
Trigger finger is associated with risk of incident cardiovascular disease in individuals with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study	43
Prevalence of bone fracture and its association with severe hypoglycemia in Japanese patients with type 1 diabetes	40
Cost-effectiveness of empagliflozin versus canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, or standard of care in patients with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease	38
Histological and transcriptional characterization of the pancreatic acinar tissue in type 1 diabetes	37
Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for development of diabetic foot ulceration: an analysis of data from five cohort studies	36
Adipose-specific C-C motif chemokine ligand (CCL) 19 overexpression drives the mice to both insulin resistance and weight gain	36
Burden of chronic kidney disease and rapid decline in renal function among adults attending a hospital-based diabetes center in Northern Europe	34
Trajectories in HbA1c and other risk factors among adults with type 1 diabetes by age at onset	32
Overexpression of lipoic acid synthase gene alleviates diabetic nephropathyof Lepr^db/dbmice	31
Effect of the Affordable Care Act on diabetes care at major health centers: newly detected diabetes and diabetes medication management	31
Interplay between worsening kidney function and cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes: an analysis from the ACCORD trial	30
Role of perirenal adiposity in renal dysfunction among CKD individuals with or without diabetes: a Japanese cross-sectional study	29
Predictive biomarkers of rapidly developing insulin deficiency in children with type 1 diabetes	29
Genetic variant rs9939609 inFTOis associated with body composition and obesity risk in Korean females	29
Various screening and diagnosis approaches for gestational diabetes mellitus and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a secondary analysis of a randomized non-inferiority field trial	27

Longitudinal changes in diet quality and food intake before and after diabetes awareness in American adults: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study	26
Two-year longitudinal trajectory patterns of albuminuria and subsequent rates of end-stage kidney disease and all-cause death: a nationwide cohort study of biopsy-proven diabetic kidney disease	26
Development of a prediction model for foot ulcer recurrence in people with diabetes using easy-to-obtain clinical variables	26
100 years on: the impact of the discovery of insulin on clinical outcomes	25
Inequalities in glycemic management in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus and severe mental illnesses: cohort study from the UK over 10 years	24
Incidence of atrial fibrillation in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus	24
Ceramides and phospholipids are downregulated with liraglutide treatment: results from the LiraFlame randomized controlled trial	24
Longitudinal associations between family conflict, parent engagement, and metabolic control in children with recent-onset type 1 diabetes	24
Quality gaps in screening and monitoring for postoperative hyperglycemia in a Canadian hospital: a retrospective cohort study	24
Lixisenatide is effective and safe as add-on treatment to basal insulin in Asian individuals with type 2 diabetes and different body mass indices: a pooled analysis of data from the GetGoal Studies	24
Evaluation and management of COVID-19-related severity in people with type 2 diabetes	24
Biobanking in Latinos: current status, principles for conduct, and contribution of a new biobank, El Banco por Salud, designed to improve the health of Latino patients of Mexican ancestry with type 2	23
Prevalence of long-term complications in inpatients with diabetes mellitus in China: a nationwide tertiary hospital-based study	23
Offloading devices for neuropathic foot ulcers in adult persons with type 1 or type 2 diabetes: a rapid review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials	23
Baseline characteristics of participants in the Pre-Diabetes Interventions and Continued Tracking to Ease-out Diabetes (Pre-DICTED) Program	22
Food insecurity, diet quality, and suboptimal diabetes management among US adults with diabetes	22
Effect of progressive resistance training with weight loss compared with weight loss alone on the fatty liver index in older adults with type 2 diabetes: secondary analysis of a 12-month randomized co	21
Effect of health system on the association of rurality and level of disadvantage with receipt of diabetic eye screening	21
Recent information on test utilization and intraindividual change in anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody in Korea: a retrospective study	21
Prevalence of, and factors associated with, diabetes mellitus in people with severe mental illness attending a multidisciplinary, outpatient cardiometabolic health assessment service	21
Insulin resistance based on postglucose load measure is associated with prevalence and burden of cerebral small vessel disease	21
Diabetes-related shame among people with type 2 diabetes: an internet-based cross-sectional study	21
Co-segregation analysis and functional trial in vivo of candidate genes for monogenic diabetes	21
Fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates type 2 diabetes via metabolic remodeling of the gut microbiota in db/db mice	20
Variations in all-cause mortality, premature mortality and cause-specific mortality among persons with diabetes in Ontario, Canada	20
Ghrelin attenuates inflammation in diabetic lung disease by TLR4 pathway in vivo and in vitro	20
Identification and characterization of novel carboxyl ester lipase gene variants in patients with different subtypes of diabetes	20
Long-term effect of intensive lifestyle intervention on cardiometabolic risk factors and microvascular complications in patients with diabetes in real-world clinical practice: a 10-year longitudinal s	19
Strains ofFaecalibacterium prausnitziiand its extracts reduce blood glucose levels, percent HbA1c, and improve glucose tolerance without causing hypoglycemic side effects in diabetic and predia	19
Cardiorenal protective effects of canagliflozin in CREDENCE according to glucose lowering	19
Diagnostic accuracy of the 5.07 monofilament test for diabetes polyneuropathy: influence of age, sex, neuropathic pain and neuropathy severity	18
Characterization of the zebrafish as a model of ATP-sensitive potassium channel hyperinsulinism	18
Impact of concomitant oral glucose-lowering medications on the success of basal insulin titration in insulin-naïve patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic analysis	18
Burden of impaired awareness of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes undergoing hemodialysis	18
Subsidised housing and diabetes mortality: a retrospective cohort study of 10 million low-income adults in Brazil	18
Role of urinary trace elements in diabetic kidney disease: a cross-sectional analysis	17
Association between RDW-SD and prognosis across glycemic status in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy	17
Effect of weight-maintaining ketogenic diet on glycemic control and insulin sensitivity in obese T2D subjects	17
Time-varying association of acute and post-acute COVID-19 with new-onset diabetes mellitus among hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients	17
Influence of diabetes and other risk factors on in-hospital mortality following kidney transplantation: an analysis of the Spanish National Hospital Discharge Database from 2016 to 2020	17
Cardiovascular disease risk factors and their associations with inflammation among US adolescents: NHANES, 2015 to March 2020	17
A plasma metabolite score of three eicosanoids predicts incident type 2 diabetes: a prospective study in three independent cohorts	17
Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an observational study of 77 681 patients from the Swedish National Diabetes Registry	17
Diabetes technologies for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes are highly dependent on coverage and reimbursement: results from a worldwide survey	17
Investigation of end-stage kidney disease risk prediction in an ethnically diverse cohort of people with type 2 diabetes: use of kidney failure risk equation	17
Controlling glycemic variability in people living with type 1 diabetes receiving insulin glargine 300 U/mL (Gla-300)	16
Changes in granule mobility and age contribute to changes in insulin secretion after desensitization or rest	16
RUNX1 can mediate the glucose and O-GlcNAc-driven proliferation and migration of human retinal microvascular endothelial cells	16
Cre/CysC ratio may predict muscle composition and is associated with glucose disposal ability and macrovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes	16
Altered postprandial glucose metabolism and enteropancreatic hormone responses during pregnancy following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a prospective cohort study	16

Association of body indices and risk of mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes	16
Reducing weight and BMI following gestational diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of digital and telemedicine interventions	16
Update on the management of diabetes in long-term care facilities	15
Time in range, as measured by continuous glucose monitor, as a predictor of microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review	15
Cluster analysis of Thai patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus to predict disease progression and treatment outcomes : A prospective cohort study	15
Effects of insonification on repairing the renal injury of diabetic nephropathy rats	15
Lifestyle interventions for type 2 diabetes management among migrants and ethnic minorities living in industrialized countries: a systematic review and meta-analyses	15
Initiating SGLT2 inhibitor therapy to improve renal outcomes for persons with diabetes eligible for an intensified glucose-lowering regimen: hypothetical intervention using parametric g-formula modeli	15
Plasma proteinN-glycosylation is associated with cardiovascular disease, nephropathy, and retinopathy in type 2 diabetes	15
Differences in type 2 diabetes risk between East, South, and Southeast Asians living in Singapore: the multi-ethnic cohort	15
Mortality attributable to type 2 diabetes mellitus in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative risk assessment analysis	15
Treatment pattern trends of medications for type 2 diabetes in British Columbia, Canada	14
Glycemic efficacy and safety of the SGLT2 inhibitor ertugliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes and stage 3 chronic kidney disease: an analysis from the VERTIS CV randomized trial	14
Pregnancy induces pancreatic insulin secretion in women with long-standing type 1 diabetes	14
Incident dementia risk among patients with type 2 diabetes receiving metformin versus alternative oral glucose-lowering therapy: an observational cohort study using UK primary healthcare records	14
How sweet is your love? Disentangling the role of marital status and quality on average glycemic levels among adults 50 years and older in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing	14
Influence of perceived health provider communication, diabetes duration and age at diagnosis with confidence in diabetes self-care	14
Sex-differences in reporting of statin-associated diabetes mellitus to the US Food and Drug Administration	14
Better TIR, HbA1c, and less hypoglycemia in closed-loop insulin system in patients with type 1 diabetes: a meta-analysis	14
Self-compassion, sleep quality and psychological well-being in type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study	14
Artificial intelligence for diabetic retinopathy in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review	14
Mediation of an association between neighborhood socioeconomic environment and type 2 diabetes through the leisure-time physical activity environment in an analysis of three independent samples	13
Serological markers of exocrine pancreatic function are differentially informative for distinguishing individuals progressing to type 1 diabetes	13
Landscape of pharmacogenetic variants associated with non-insulin antidiabetic drugs in the Indian population	13
Diabetic retinopathy in African–Americans with end-stage kidney disease: a cross-sectional study on prevalence and impact on quality of life	13
Outcome evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis for an integrated multidisciplinary diabetic limb salvage program: a combined observational and simulation study	13
Unfavorable social determinants of health and risk of mortality in adults with diabetes: findings from the National Health Interview Survey	13
Beta-cell, but not autonomic nervous system, function is related to MAFLD in early stages of glucose intolerance	12
Blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol testing among adults with diabetes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, USA, 2019 vs 2021	12
Association of GLP-1 secretion with parameters of glycemic control in women after gestational diabetes mellitus	12
Kidney outcomes of SGLT2 inhibitors among older patients with diabetic kidney disease in real-world clinical practice: the Japan Chronic Kidney Disease Database Ex	12
Retrospective derivation of a causal pathway for diabetic ketoacidosis in adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus	12
Prescribing of evidence-based diabetes pharmacotherapy in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis	12
Use of machine learning to identify characteristics associated with severe hypoglycemia in older adults with type 1 diabetes: a post-hoc analysis of a case–control study	12
Non-efficacy of early intervention strategy for non-obese patients with early-onset gestational diabetes mellitus: solely based on the short-term outcomes	12
Cancer risk according to fasting blood glucose trajectories: a population-based cohort study	12
Young-onset type 2 diabetes and retinopathy: evidence of an adverse phenotype	12
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use is associated with lower blood ferritin levels in people with type 2 diabetes and hemochromatosis: a nationwide register-based study	12
Interplay between chronic widespread pain and lifestyle factors on the risk of type 2 diabetes: longitudinal data from the Norwegian HUNT Study	12
Early increase in HbA1c trajectory predicts development of severe microangiopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes: the VISS study	12
Effects of concurrent aerobic and strength training in patients with type 2 diabetes: Bayesian pairwise and dose-response meta-analysis	11
Effect of flexor tendon tenotomy of the diabetic hammertoe on plantar pressure: a randomized controlled trial	11
Maximum body mass index before onset of type 2 diabetes is independently associated with advanced diabetic complications	11
Random plasma glucose levels and cause-specific mortality among Chinese adults without known diabetes: an 11-year prospective study of 450,000 people	11
Lower extremity MRI following 10-week supervised exercise intervention in patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy	11
Using a community-based participatory research approach to meaningfully engage those with lived experience of diabetes and homelessness	11
Development of a three-dimensional scoring model for the assessment of continuous glucose monitoring data in type 1 diabetes	11
Comparative risk of type 2 diabetes development between women with gestational diabetes and women with impaired glucose tolerance over two decades: a multiethnic prospective cohort in New Zealand	11
Application of machine learning techniques to understand ethnic differences and risk factors for incident chronic kidney disease in Asians	11
Plasma advanced glycation end products and the subsequent risk of microvascular complications in type 1 diabetes in the DCCT/EDIC	11
Ethnic-specific oral glucose tolerance (OGTT) phenotypes in women with hyperglycemia in pregnancy	11
Identification of atypical pediatric diabetes mellitus cases using electronic medical records	11
Cerebral small-vessel disease is associated with the severity of diabetic retinopathy in type 1 diabetes	11
Network Mendelian randomization study: exploring the causal pathway from insomnia to type 2 diabetes	11
Safety of add-on sulfonylurea therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes using metformin: a population-based real-world study	11
Study design and baseline profile for adults with type 2 diabetes in the once-weekly subcutaneous SEmaglutide randomized PRAgmatic (SEPRA) trial	10
Consumption of two meals per day is associated with increased intrapancreatic fat deposition in patients with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective study	10
Future number of people with diagnosed type 1 diabetes in Germany until 2040: an analysis based on claims data	10
Association of hemoglobin A1c time in range with risk for diabetes complications	10
Effect of lactate administration on cerebral blood flow during hypoglycemia in people with type 1 diabetes	10
Efficacy and safety of efpeglenatide in key patient subgroups from the BALANCE randomized trial, stratified by pre-diabetes status, BMI, and age at baseline	10
Uptake and impact of the English National Health Service digital diabetes prevention programme: observational study	10
Parent and child perceptions of physical activity with type 1 diabetes	10
Effect of the interaction between advanced maternal age and pre-pregnancy BMI on pre-eclampsia and GDM in Central China	10
Metformin modulates the gut microbiome in a mice model of high-fat diet-induced glycolipid metabolism disorder	10
Rest-activity circadian rhythm and impaired glucose tolerance in adults: an analysis of NHANES 2011–2014	10
Women with type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease have a higher risk of heart failure than men, with a significant gender interaction between heart failure risk and risk factor management: a retr	10
Use of metformin following a population-level intervention to encourage people with pre-diabetes to enroll in the National Diabetes Prevention Program	10
Vitamin D, parathyroid hormone, glucose metabolism and incident diabetes in the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis	10
Diabetic Retinopathy Screening at the Point of Care (DR SPOC): detecting undiagnosed and vision-threatening retinopathy by integrating portable technologies within existing services	10
Association of a lifestyle score with cardiometabolic markers among individuals with diabetes: a cross-sectional study	10
Evaluating the prognostic performance of bedside tests used for peripheral arterial disease diagnosis in the prediction of diabetic foot ulcer healing	10
Trends in adherence to recommended physical activity and its effects on cardiometabolic markers in US adults with pre-diabetes	10
Perceived barriers and enablers to the provision of diabetic retinopathy screening for young adults: a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals working in the UK National Diabetic Eye Screen	10
Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy: real-world comparison between topical treatment with lidocaine 700 mg medicated plaster and oral treatments	10
Prevalence of non-diabetic kidney disease and inability of clinical predictors to differentiate it from diabetic kidney disease: results from a prospectively performed renal biopsy study	10