Albertino Damasceno

59.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Albertino Damasceno is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Albertino Damasceno has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 36 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 28 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Albertino Damasceno's work include Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (35 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (22 papers) and Sodium Intake and Health (21 papers). Albertino Damasceno is often cited by papers focused on Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (35 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (22 papers) and Sodium Intake and Health (21 papers). Albertino Damasceno collaborates with scholars based in Mozambique, Portugal and South Africa. Albertino Damasceno's co-authors include M. Mohsen Ibrahim, Karen Sliwa, Nuno Lunet, Bongani M. Mayosi, Carla Silva‐Matos, António Prista, Patrícia Padrão, Ana Azevedo, Salim Yusuf and Anastase Dzudié and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Albertino Damasceno

132 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A call to action and a lifecourse strategy to address the global burden of raised blood pressure on current and future generations: the Lancet Commission on hypertension

2016 614 citations Albertino Damasceno, Patricio López‐Jaramillo et al. profile →
Hypertension in developing countries

2012 529 citations Albertino Damasceno et al. profile →
The Causes, Treatment, and Outcome of Acute Heart Failure in 1006 Africans From 9 Countries

2012 352 citations Albertino Damasceno, Bongani M. Mayosi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Albertino Damasceno Mozambique	32	2.3k	979	848	620	586	141	4.7k
Ana Azevedo Portugal	35	2.6k 1.1×	774 0.8×	616 0.7×	270 0.4×	354 0.6×	202	5.1k
Srinath Reddy India	15	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	699 0.8×	678 1.1×	347 0.6×	24	5.3k
Sumathy Rangarajan Canada	26	1.6k 0.7×	869 0.9×	426 0.5×	343 0.6×	263 0.4×	83	3.7k
Shofiqul Islam Canada	28	1.6k 0.7×	909 0.9×	418 0.5×	413 0.7×	233 0.4×	65	3.7k
Hanna Tolonen Finland	33	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 1.8×	812 1.0×	264 0.4×	305 0.5×	153	5.5k
Xiufang Duan China	24	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	854 1.0×	218 0.4×	657 1.1×	35	4.6k
Panniyammakal Jeemon India	31	1.2k 0.5×	531 0.5×	403 0.5×	468 0.8×	227 0.4×	121	3.0k
Lakshmy Ramakrishnan India	36	928 0.4×	1.7k 1.8×	666 0.8×	470 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	239	6.4k
Fleetwood Loustalot United States	32	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	392 0.5×	130 0.2×	440 0.8×	113	4.3k
Stephen Kaptoge United Kingdom	16	1.3k 0.6×	545 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	180 0.3×	267 0.5×	21	4.5k

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Scheier, Thomas, Tafese Beyene Tufa, Torsten Feldt, et al.. (2025). Standard of care in advanced HIV disease: review of HIV treatment guidelines in sub-Saharan African countries—an extension study of eight countries. AIDS Research and Therapy. 22(1). 39–39. 1 indexed citations

Sliwa, Karen, Simon Stewart, Charle Viljoen, et al.. (2025). Generating Important Insights into the Spectrum and Outcomes of Acute Heart Failure Across the African Continent: The Sub-Saharan Africa Survey of Heart Failure (THESUS-HF II). Global Heart. 20(1). 64–64.

Damasceno, Albertino, et al.. (2025). Heart failure in low-income and middle-income countries. Heart. 111(8). 341–351. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Alexander, Yih‐Kai Chan, Ana Olga Mocumbi, et al.. (2025). Elevated blood pressure levels among 533 167 adults living in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Smyth, Andrew, Graeme J. Hankey, Albertino Damasceno, et al.. (2024). Carbonated Beverage, Fruit Drink, and Water Consumption and Risk of Acute Stroke: the INTERSTROKE Case-Control Study. Journal of Stroke. 26(3). 391–402. 1 indexed citations

Albuquerque, Gabriela, Dragana Stojisavljević, Albertino Damasceno, et al.. (2022). Street Food and Takeaway Food Purchasing Patterns in Bosnia and Herzegovina. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(15). 9086–9086. 4 indexed citations

Smyth, Andrew, Martin O’Donnell, Sumathy Rangarajan, et al.. (2022). Alcohol Intake as a Risk Factor for Acute Stroke. Neurology. 100(2). e142–e153. 31 indexed citations

Damasceno, Albertino, et al.. (2022). Levels of Salt Reduction in Bread, Acceptability and Purchase Intention by Urban Mozambican Consumers. Foods. 11(3). 454–454. 4 indexed citations

Akinyemi, Rufus, Bruce Ovbiagele, Olaleye Adeniji, et al.. (2021). Stroke in Africa: profile, progress, prospects and priorities. Nature Reviews Neurology. 17(10). 634–656. 153 indexed citations

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Nkoké, Clovis, Albertino Damasceno, Christopher Edwards, et al.. (2021). Differences in socio-demographic and risk factor profile, clinical presentation, and outcomes between patients with and without RHD heart failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: results from the THESUS-HF registry. Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy. 11(4). 980–990. 1 indexed citations

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Smyth, Andrew, Martin O’Donnell, Graeme J. Hankey, et al.. (2021). Anger or emotional upset and heavy physical exertion as triggers of stroke: the INTERSTROKE study. European Heart Journal. 43(3). 202–209. 15 indexed citations

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Albuquerque, Gabriela, Mariana Santos, Dragana Stojisavljević, et al.. (2021). Nutritional Content of Street Food and Takeaway Food Purchased in Urban Bosnia and Herzegovina. Foods. 10(11). 2594–2594. 7 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, María Kathia, Suman Bahadur Singh, Tavares Madede, et al.. (2021). Forty years after Alma-Ata: primary health-care preparedness for chronic diseases in Mozambique, Nepal and Peru. Global Health Action. 14(1). 1975920–1975920. 7 indexed citations

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Brady, Emer M., David Beran, Jorge César Correia, et al.. (2021). EXTending availability of self-management structured EducatioN programmes for people with type 2 Diabetes in low-to-middle income countries (EXTEND)—a feasibility study in Mozambique and Malawi. BMJ Open. 11(9). e047425–e047425. 9 indexed citations

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Sani, Mahmoud U., Albertino Damasceno, Beth A. Davison, et al.. (2020). N-Terminal pro BNP and Galectin-3 are Prognostic Biomarkers of Acute Heart Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the BAHEF Trial. ESC Heart Failure. 8(1). 74–84. 8 indexed citations

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Gayà‐Vidal, Magdalena, Cesar Fortes‐Lima, Sandra Oliveira, et al.. (2019). Along the Indian Ocean Coast: Genomic Variation in Mozambique Provides New Insights into the Bantu Expansion. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(2). 406–416. 26 indexed citations

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Sani, Mahmoud U., Gad Cotter, Beth A. Davison, et al.. (2016). Symptoms and Signs of Heart Failure at Admission and Discharge and Outcomes in the Sub-Saharan Acute Heart Failure (THESUS-HF) Registry. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 23(10). 739–742. 17 indexed citations

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Sani, Mahmoud U., Beth A. Davison, Gad Cotter, et al.. (2014). Renal Dysfunction in African Patients With Acute Heart Failure. European Journal of Heart Failure. 16(7). 718–728. 10 indexed citations

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Silva‐Matos, Carla, André Gomes, Ana Azevedo, et al.. (2011). Diabetes in Mozambique: Prevalence, management and healthcare challenges. Diabetes & Metabolism. 37(3). 237–244. 39 indexed citations

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Alves, Isabel, Margarida C. Coelho, Christopher R. Gignoux, et al.. (2011). Genetic Homogeneity Across Bantu-Speaking Groups from Mozambique and Angola Challenges Early Split Scenarios between East and West Bantu Populations. Human Biology. 83(1). 13–38. 2 indexed citations

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