| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global estimates of the prevalence of diabetes for 2010 and 2030 | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2010 | 5,566 |
| 2 | Global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2013 and projections for 2035 | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2014 | 3,465 |
| 3 | Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,439 |
| 4 | The metabolic syndrome | Lancet, The | 2010 | 2,488 |
| 5 | Muscles, exercise and obesity: skeletal muscle as a secretory organ | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | 2012 | 1,972 |
| 6 | Mechanisms of Diabetic Complications | Physiological Reviews | 2013 | 1,943 |
| 7 | Catheter-based renal sympathetic denervation for resistant hypertension: a multicentre safety and proof-of-principle cohort study | Lancet, The | 2009 | 1,918 |
| 8 | Too Much Sitting | Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews | 2010 | 1,713 |
| 9 | The worldwide epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus—present and future perspectives | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | 2012 | 1,653 |
| 10 | Pathophysiology and treatment of type 2 diabetes: perspectives on the past, present, and future | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,230 |
| 11 | Sedentary Behaviors and Subsequent Health Outcomes in Adults | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2011 | 1,211 |
| 12 | Clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric surgery patient—2013 update: Cosponsored by american association of clinical endocrinologists, The obesity society, and american society for metabolic & bariatric surgery* | Obesity | 2013 | 1,036 |
| 13 | Breaking Up Prolonged Sitting Reduces Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Responses | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 952 |
| 14 | Transient high glucose causes persistent epigenetic changes and altered gene expression during subsequent normoglycemia | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2008 | 931 |
| 15 | Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies | Lancet, The | 2018 | 858 |
| 16 | Physical activity in relation to urban environments in 14 cities worldwide: a cross-sectional study | Lancet, The | 2016 | 800 |
| 17 | Engineering Multifunctional Capsules through the Assembly of Metal–Phenolic Networks | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2014 | 781 |
| 18 | High-Fiber Diet and Acetate Supplementation Change the Gut Microbiota and Prevent the Development of Hypertension and Heart Failure in Hypertensive Mice | Circulation | 2017 | 695 |
| 19 | Molecular distinction between physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy: Experimental findings and therapeutic strategies | Circulation | 2010 | 694 |
| 20 | Adults' Sedentary Behavior | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2011 | 691 |
| 21 | Diabetes: a 21st century challenge | Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology,the | 2014 | 679 |
| 22 | Association of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With Mortality | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2015 | 624 |
| 23 | Sedentary Behavior: Emerging Evidence for a New Health Risk | Mayo Clinic Proceedings | 2010 | 617 |
| 24 | Signaling by IL-6 promotes alternative activation of macrophages to limit endotoxemia and obesity-associated resistance to insulin | Nature Immunology | 2014 | 577 |
| 25 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Nutritional, Metabolic, and Nonsurgical Support of the Bariatric Surgery Patient—2013 Update: Cosponsored by American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery | Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases | 2013 | 572 |
| 26 | Percutaneous renal denervation in patients with treatment-resistant hypertension: final 3-year report of the Symplicity HTN-1 study | Lancet, The | 2014 | 556 |
| 27 | Bariatric Surgery Worldwide: Baseline Demographic Description and One-Year Outcomes from the Fourth IFSO Global Registry Report 2018 | Obesity Surgery | 2019 | 556 |
| 28 | Diabetes mellitus statistics on prevalence and mortality: facts and fallacies | Nature Reviews Endocrinology | 2016 | 544 |
| 29 | Effect of Finerenone on Albuminuria in Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2015 | 523 |
| 30 | The Presence and Severity of Chronic Kidney Disease Predicts All-Cause Mortality in Type 1 Diabetes | Diabetes | 2009 | 511 |
| 31 | Pathophysiology of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure: signaling pathways and novel therapeutic targets | Archives of Toxicology | 2015 | 492 |
| 32 | Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 481 |
| 33 | Hyperglycemia Induces a Dynamic Cooperativity of Histone Methylase and Demethylase Enzymes Associated With Gene-Activating Epigenetic Marks That Coexist on the Lysine Tail | Diabetes | 2009 | 468 |
| 34 | Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity | Nature Medicine | 2020 | 468 |
| 35 | Ceramides – Lipotoxic Inducers of Metabolic Disorders | Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2015 | 463 |
| 36 | Too much sitting – A health hazard | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2012 | 458 |
| 37 | Suppression of microRNA-29 Expression by TGF-β1 Promotes Collagen Expression and Renal Fibrosis | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2012 | 450 |
| 38 | Bariatric surgery: an IDF statement for obese Type 2 diabetes | Diabetic Medicine | 2011 | 421 |
| 39 | Diabetes and Kidney Disease: Role of Oxidative Stress | Antioxidants and Redox Signaling | 2016 | 410 |
| 40 | RAGE-Induced Cytosolic ROS Promote Mitochondrial Superoxide Generation in Diabetes | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2009 | 391 |
| 41 | Therapeutic inhibition of the miR-34 family attenuates pathological cardiac remodeling and improves heart function | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 391 |
| 42 | NKX2-5eGFP/w hESCs for isolation of human cardiac progenitors and cardiomyocytes | Nature Methods | 2011 | 384 |
| 43 | High-Density Lipoprotein Modulates Glucose Metabolism in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus | Circulation | 2009 | 363 |
| 44 | Diabetes in Asia and the Pacific: Implications for the Global Epidemic | Diabetes Care | 2016 | 363 |
| 45 | Translational medicine: the antihypertensive effect of renal denervation | American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology | 2010 | 362 |
| 46 | Impact of age, age at diagnosis and duration of diabetes on the risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications and death in type 2 diabetes | Diabetologia | 2014 | 346 |
| 47 | Distinct patterns of tissue-specific lipid accumulation during the induction of insulin resistance in mice by high-fat feeding | Diabetologia | 2013 | 339 |
| 48 | The transcription factor IRF4 is essential for TCR affinity–mediated metabolic programming and clonal expansion of T cells | Nature Immunology | 2013 | 337 |
| 49 | Substantial Reduction in Single Sympathetic Nerve Firing After Renal Denervation in Patients With Resistant Hypertension | Hypertension | 2013 | 331 |
| 50 | International Recommendations for Electrocardiographic Interpretation in Athletes | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2017 | 318 |
