| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Binding of SARS coronavirus to its receptor damages islets and causes acute diabetes | Acta Diabetologica | 2010 | 850 |
| 2 | Significance of serum microRNAs in pre-diabetes and newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: a clinical study | Acta Diabetologica | 2011 | 473 |
| 3 | The English National Screening Programme for diabetic retinopathy 2003–2016 | Acta Diabetologica | 2017 | 303 |
| 4 | Influenza and obesity: its odd relationship and the lessons for COVID-19 pandemic | Acta Diabetologica | 2020 | 285 |
| 5 | Optical coherence tomography angiography analysis of retinal vascular plexuses and choriocapillaris in patients with type 1 diabetes without diabetic retinopathy | Acta Diabetologica | 2017 | 221 |
| 6 | Exercise for the management of type 2 diabetes: a review of the evidence | Acta Diabetologica | 2010 | 211 |
| 7 | The inflammatory status score including IL-6, TNF-α, osteopontin, fractalkine, MCP-1 and adiponectin underlies whole-body insulin resistance and hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus | Acta Diabetologica | 2014 | 211 |
| 8 | Low serum magnesium levels and metabolic syndrome | Acta Diabetologica | 2002 | 206 |
| 9 | Gut microbiota and diabetes: from pathogenesis to therapeutic perspective | Acta Diabetologica | 2011 | 199 |
| 10 | Hsa_circ_0054633 in peripheral blood can be used as a diagnostic biomarker of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus | Acta Diabetologica | 2017 | 198 |
| 11 | The prevalence of comorbid depression in patients with type 2 diabetes: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis on huge number of observational studies | Acta Diabetologica | 2019 | 193 |
| 12 | NETosis is induced by high glucose and associated with type 2 diabetes | Acta Diabetologica | 2015 | 188 |
| 13 | Erythrocyte caspase-3 activation and oxidative imbalance in erythrocytes and in plasma of type 2 diabetic patients | Acta Diabetologica | 2013 | 176 |
| 14 | Sulphonylureas and cancer: a case–control study | Acta Diabetologica | 2009 | 171 |
| 15 | Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) inhibition in COVID-19 | Acta Diabetologica | 2020 | 171 |
| 16 | Encephalopathies: the emerging diabetic complications | Acta Diabetologica | 2010 | 169 |
| 17 | Reference ranges of HOMA-IR in normal-weight and obese young Caucasians | Acta Diabetologica | 2016 | 166 |
| 18 | High prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in type 1 diabetes mellitus and healthy children | Acta Diabetologica | 2009 | 155 |
| 19 | SGLT-2 inhibitors and the risk of infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials | Acta Diabetologica | 2018 | 155 |
| 20 | The IGF system | Acta Diabetologica | 2011 | 154 |
| 21 | Resistance training improves the metabolic profile in individuals with type 2 diabetes | Acta Diabetologica | 1997 | 152 |
| 22 | Serum concentrations of advanced glycation endproducts are associated with the development of atherosclerosis as well as diabetic microangiopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes | Acta Diabetologica | 2000 | 151 |
| 23 | Pancreatic exocrine function in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus | Acta Diabetologica | 2000 | 148 |
| 24 | The oxidative stress status in diabetes mellitus and diabetic nephropathy | Acta Diabetologica | 2010 | 147 |
| 25 | Pyrite framboids and their development: a new conceptual mechanism | Acta Diabetologica | 1993 | 143 |
| 26 | Protective effects of ferulic acid on hyperlipidemic diabetic rats | Acta Diabetologica | 2003 | 139 |
| 27 | Does diabetes increase the risk of periodontitis? A systematic review and meta-regression analysis of longitudinal prospective studies | Acta Diabetologica | 2018 | 138 |
| 28 | Circulating levels of interleukin-6, its soluble receptor and interleukin-6/interleukin-6 receptor complexes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus | Acta Diabetologica | 1999 | 135 |
| 29 | Insulin-resistant patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have higher serum leptin levels independently of body fat mass | Acta Diabetologica | 2002 | 135 |
| 30 | Induction of hyperglycaemia in zebrafish (Danio rerio) leads to morphological changes in the retina | Acta Diabetologica | 2007 | 135 |
| 31 | The diabetic cardiomyopathy | Acta Diabetologica | 2011 | 135 |
| 32 | Epidemiological aspects of neoplasms in diabetes | Acta Diabetologica | 2010 | 132 |
| 33 | Pathophysiology and treatment of diabetic retinopathy | Acta Diabetologica | 2013 | 132 |
| 34 | Screening for biomarkers predictive of gestational diabetes mellitus | Acta Diabetologica | 2008 | 131 |
| 35 | Minimal incidence of neonatal/infancy onset diabetes in Italy is 1:90,000 live births | Acta Diabetologica | 2012 | 130 |
| 36 | Optical coherence tomography angiography discerns preclinical diabetic retinopathy in eyes of patients with type 2 diabetes without clinical diabetic retinopathy | Acta Diabetologica | 2018 | 130 |
| 37 | MicroRNA-124a is hyperexpressed in type 2 diabetic human pancreatic islets and negatively regulates insulin secretion | Acta Diabetologica | 2015 | 127 |
| 38 | Cognitive impairment and dementia: a new emerging complication of type 2 diabetes—The diabetologist’s perspective | Acta Diabetologica | 2017 | 127 |
| 39 | Serum miR-23a, a potential biomarker for diagnosis of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes | Acta Diabetologica | 2014 | 126 |
| 40 | Muscle dysfunction in type 2 diabetes: a major threat to patient’s mobility and independence | Acta Diabetologica | 2016 | 125 |
| 41 | Evidence for altered transport of insulin across the blood–brain barrier in insulin-resistant humans | Acta Diabetologica | 2014 | 123 |
| 42 | Acute hyperglycemia and acute hyperinsulinemia decrease plasma fibrinolytic activity and increase plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 in the rat | Acta Diabetologica | 2001 | 119 |
| 43 | Oxidative stress in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients | Acta Diabetologica | 2008 | 119 |
| 44 | Secondary diabetes associated with principal endocrinopathies: the impact of new treatment modalities | Acta Diabetologica | 2009 | 119 |
| 45 | Ethnic differences in abdominal visceral fat accumulation between Japanese, African-Americans, and Caucasians: a meta-analysis | Acta Diabetologica | 2003 | 118 |
| 46 | Updating the natural history of diabetic nephropathy | Acta Diabetologica | 2014 | 118 |
| 47 | The effects of resveratrol on markers of oxidative stress in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial | Acta Diabetologica | 2018 | 116 |
| 48 | High circulating irisin levels are associated with insulin resistance and vascular atherosclerosis in a cohort of nondiabetic adult subjects | Acta Diabetologica | 2014 | 115 |
| 49 | Metabolic syndrome: its history, mechanisms, and limitations | Acta Diabetologica | 2012 | 114 |
| 50 | Improved postprandial glycaemic controls with insulin Aspart in type 2 diabetic patients treated with insulin | Acta Diabetologica | 2000 | 113 |
