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2011-2013

endocrinology cont.
2012.
Garcia-Touza M, Sowers J. Evidence-based hypertension
treatment in patients with diabetes. J Clin Hypertens 14(2): 97102, 2012.
Garcia-Vargas L, Addison SS, Nistala R, Kurukulasuriya D, Sowers
JR. Gestational diabetes and the offspring: implications in the
development of the cardiorenal metabolic syndrome in offspring.
Cardiorenal Med 2(2):134-142, 2012.
Giles TD, Oparil S, Ofili EO, Pitt B, Purkayastha D, Hilkert R,
Samuel R, Sowers JR. The role of ambulatory blood pressure
monitoring compared with clinic and home blood pressure
measures in evaluating moderate versus intensive treatment of
hypertension with amlodipine/valsartan for patients uncontrolled
on angiotensin receptor blocker monotherapy. Blood Press Monit
16(2):87-95, 2011.
Gul R, Demarco VG, Sowers JR, Whaley-Connell A, Pulakat
L. Regulation of overnutrition-induced cardiac inflammatory
mechanisms. Cardiorenal Med 2(3):225-233, 2012.
Gul R, Ramdas M, Mandavia CH, Sowers JR, Pulakat L. RASmediated adaptive mechanisms in cardiovascular tissues:
confounding factors of RAS blockade therapy and alternative
approaches. Cardiorenal Med, 2(4):268-280, 2012.
Gupta D, Brietzke S, Hayden MR, Kurukulasuriya LR, Sowers
JR. Phosphate metabolism in cardiorenal metabolic disease.
Cardiorenal Med 1(4):261-270, 2011.
Gupta D, Krueger CB, Lastra G. Over-nutrition, obesity and
insulin resistance in the development of B-cell dysfunction. Curr
Diabetes, Rev 8(2):76-83, 2012.
Habibi J, Demarco VG, Ma L, Pulakat L, Rainey WE, WhaleyConnell AT, Sowers JR. Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade
improves diastolic function independent of blood pressure
reduction in transgenic model of RAAS overexpression. Am J
Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 300(4):H1484-91, 2011.
Habibi J, Hayden MR, Sowers JR, Pulakat L, Tilmon RD, Manrique
C, Lastra G, Demarco VG, Whaley-Connell A. Nebivolol
attenuates redox-sensitive glomerular and tubular mediated
proteinuria in obese rats. Endocrinology 152(2):659-68, 2011.
Hayden MR, Habibi J, Joginpally T, Karuparthi PR, Sowers
JR. Ultrastructure study of transgenic Ren2 rat aorta - part 1:
endothelium and intima. Cardiorenal Med 2(1):66-82, 2012.
Hayden MR, Sowers JR. Childhood-Adolescent obesity in the
cardiorenal syndrome: lessons from animal models. Cardiorenal
Med 1(2):75-86, 2011.

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Hayden MR, Sowers KM, Pulakat L, Joginpally T, Krueger B,
Whaley-Connell A, Sowers JR. Possible mechanisms of local
tissue renin-angiotensin system activation in the cardiorenal
metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cardiorenal
Med 1(3):193-210, 2011.
Jindal A, Brietzke S, Sowers JR. Obesity and the Cardiorenal
Metabolic Syndrome: Therapeutic Modalities and Their Efficacy
in Improving Cardiovascular and Renal Risk Factors. Cardiorenal
Med. 2012 Dec;2(4):314-327.
Jindal A, Whaley-Connell A, Brietzke S, Sowers JR. Therapy of
obese patients with cardiovascular disease. Curr Opin Pharmacol,
13(2):200-4, 2013.
Jindal A, Whaley-Connell A, Sowers JR. Type 2 diabetes in
older people; the importance of blood pressure control. Curr
Cardiovasc Risk Rep, 7(3):233-237, 2013.
Jindal A, Whaley-Connell A, Sowers JR. Obesity and Heart Failure
as a Mediator of the Cerebrorenal Interaction. K Toyoda (ed), Brain
Stroke and Kidney, Contrib Nephrol. Basel, Karger; 2013, 179,
15-23.
Johnson MS, Demarco VG, Heesch CM, Whaley-Connell AT,
Schneider RI, Rehmer NT, Tilmon RD, Ferrario CM, Sowers JR. Sex
differences in baroreflex sensitivity, heart rate variability, and end
organ damage in the TGR(mRen2)27 rat. Am J Physiol Heart Circ
Physiol 301(4):H1540-50, 2011.
Kim JA, Jang HJ, Martinez-Lemus LA, Sowers JR. Activation
of mTOR/p70S6 Kinase by ANG II Inhibits Insulin Stimulated
Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase and Vasodilation. Am J Physiol
Endocrinol Metab 302(2):E201-8, 2012.
Klachko D, Whaley-Connell A. Use of Metformin in Patients with
Kidney and Cardiovascular Diseases. Cardiorenal Med. 2011;1:8795.
Krishnan SK, Dohrmann ML, Brietzke SA, Fleming DA, Flaker GC.
High prevalence of iatrogenic hyperthyroidism in elderly patients
with atrial fibrillation in an anticoagulation clinic. Missouri
Medicine. 2011 Jul-Aug; 108(4):280-3.
Kurukulasuriya LR, Stas S, Lastra G, Manrique C, Sowers JR.
Hypertension in obesity. Med Clin North Am 95(5):903-17, 2011.
Landsberg L, Aronne LJ, Beilin LJ, Burke V, Igel LI, Lloyd-Jones
D, Sowers J. Obesity-related hypertension: pathogenesis,
cardiovascular risk, and treatment: a position paper of The
Obesity Society and the American Society of Hypertension. J Clin
Hypertens (Greenwich) 15(1):14-33, 2013
Landsberg L, Aronne LJ, Beilin LJ, Burke V, Igel LI, Lloyd-Jones
D, Sowers J. Obesity-related hypertension: pathogenesis,
cardiovascular risk, and treatment--a position paper of the The