James B. Meigs

135.5k total citations · 15 hit papers
400 papers, 44.5k citations indexed

About

James B. Meigs is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, James B. Meigs has authored 400 papers receiving a total of 44.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 99 papers in Epidemiology and 91 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in James B. Meigs's work include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (100 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (71 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (51 papers). James B. Meigs is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (100 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (71 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (51 papers). James B. Meigs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. James B. Meigs's co-authors include Ralph B. D’Agostino, Peter W.F. Wilson, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Caroline S. Fox, Lisa Sullivan, JoAnn E. Manson, Frank B. Hu, Paul F. Jacques, L. Adrienne Cupples and Richard W. Grant and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

James B. Meigs

396 papers receiving 43.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Abdominal Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Compartments

2007 2.2k citations Caroline S. Fox, Joseph M. Massaro et al. Circulation profile →
Metabolic Syndrome as a Precursor of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

2005 1.6k citations Peter W.F. Wilson, Ralph B. D’Agostino et al. Circulation profile →
Body Mass Index, Metabolic Syndrome, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes or Cardiovascular Disease

2006 820 citations James B. Meigs, Peter W.F. Wilson et al. profile →
Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Volumes Are Cross-Sectionally Related to Markers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress

2007 739 citations Joseph M. Massaro, Ramachandran S. Vasan et al. Circulation profile →
Soft Drink Consumption and Risk of Developing Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Adults in the Community

2007 719 citations Ravi Dhingra, Lisa Sullivan et al. Circulation profile →
Major dietary patterns are related to plasma concentrations of markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction

2004 672 citations James B. Meigs et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
Diet-quality scores and plasma concentrations of markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction

2005 669 citations James B. Meigs et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
Diet-quality scores and plasma concentrations of markers of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction

2005 665 citations James B. Meigs et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
Inflammatory Markers and Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes in Women

2004 641 citations James B. Meigs et al. profile →
Carbohydrate Nutrition, Insulin Resistance, and the Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in the Framingham Offspring Cohort

2004 589 citations Nicola M. McKeown, James B. Meigs et al. Diabetes Care profile →
Low-Grade Albuminuria and Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease Events in Nonhypertensive and Nondiabetic Individuals

2005 558 citations James B. Meigs, Thomas J. Wang et al. Circulation profile →
Genotype Score in Addition to Common Risk Factors for Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes

2008 550 citations James B. Meigs, Lisa Sullivan et al. profile →
C-Reactive Protein, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Prediction of Cardiovascular Events in the Framingham Offspring Study

2004 546 citations Martin K. Rutter, James B. Meigs et al. Circulation profile →
Biomarkers of Endothelial Dysfunction and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

2004 516 citations James B. Meigs profile →
Increasing Cardiovascular Disease Burden Due to Diabetes Mellitus

2007 500 citations Caroline S. Fox, Ralph B. D’Agostino et al. Circulation profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The effect of type 2 diabetes genetic predisposition on non-cardiovascular comorbidities 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Ana Luiza Arruda, Ozvan Bocher, Henry J. Taylor, Davis Cammann, Satoshi Yoshiji, Xianyong Yin, Chi Zhao, Jingchun Chen, Alexis C. Wood, Ken Suzuki, Josep M. Mercader, Cassandra N. Spracklen, James B. Meigs, Marijana Vujković, George Davey Smith, Jerome I. Rotter, Benjamin F. Voight, Andrew P. Morris, Eleftheria Zeggini	0
2	Polygenic scores for longitudinal prediction of incident type 2 diabetes in an ancestrally and medically diverse primary care physician network: a patient cohort study 2024 ·Genome Medicine ·Ravi Mandla, Philip Schroeder, Bianca Porneala, José C. Florez, James B. Meigs, Josep M. Mercader, Aaron Leong	4
3	Cardiovascular Risk Estimation Is Suboptimal in People With HIV 2024 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·Virginia A. Triant, Asya Lyass, Leo B. Hurley, Leila H. Borowsky, (unknown), Wei He, David Cheng, Janet Lo, Daniel B. Klein, James B. Meigs, Steven Grinspoon, Jorge Plutzky, Michael J. Silverberg, Michael P. LaValley, Joseph M. Massaro, Ralph B. D’Agostino	11
4	Prognostic value of insulin resistance and hyperglycemia biomarkers for long-term risks of cardiometabolic outcomes 2023 ·Journal of Diabetes and its Complications ·Mary R. Rooney, Natalie Daya, Aaron Leong, Michael J. McPhaul, Dov Shiffman, James B. Meigs, Elizabeth Selvin	1
5	Patient and provider perspectives on polygenic risk scores: implications for clinical reporting and utilization 2022 ·Genome Medicine ·Anna Lewis, Emma Perez, Anya E. R. Prince, (unknown), (unknown), Deanna Brockman, Paulette D. Chandler, (unknown), Matthew S. Lebo, Jordan W. Smoller, Scott T. Weiss, (unknown), James B. Meigs, Robert C. Green, Jason L. Vassy, Elizabeth W. Karlson	32
6	A combined polygenic score of 21,293 rare and 22 common variants improves diabetes diagnosis based on hemoglobin A1C levels 2022 ·Nature Genetics ·Peter Dornbos, Ryan Koesterer, (unknown), Trang Thi Huyen Nguyen, Joanne B. Cole, Aaron Leong, James B. Meigs, José C. Florez, Jerome I. Rotter, Miriam S. Udler, Jason Flannick	22
7	Physiological subtypes of gestational glucose intolerance and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes 2021 ·American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Kaitlyn E. James, (unknown), Marie‐France Hivert, James B. Meigs, Ravi Thadhani, Jeffrey L. Ecker, Camille E. Powe	18
8	Incremental Risk of Developing Severe COVID-19 Among Mexican Patients With Diabetes Attributed to Social and Health Care Access Disadvantages 2020 ·Diabetes Care ·Sandra G. Sosa‐Rubí, Jacqueline A. Seiglie, (unknown), Jennifer Manne‐Goehler, James B. Meigs, Deborah J. Wexler, Veronika J. Wirtz, Octavio Gómez‐Dantés, Edson Serván‐Mori	20
9	Baseline Levels, and Changes Over Time in Body Mass Index and Fasting Insulin, and Their Relationship to Change in Metabolic Trait Clustering 2014 ·Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders ·Martin K. Rutter, Lisa Sullivan, Caroline S. Fox, Peter W.F. Wilson, David M. Nathan, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Ralph B. D’Agostino, James B. Meigs	10
10	Analysis of a Urinary Biomarker Panel for Incident Kidney Disease and Clinical Outcomes 2013 ·Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Conall M. O’Seaghdha, Shih‐Jen Hwang, Martin G. Larson, James B. Meigs, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Caroline S. Fox	64
11	A Phenomics-Based Strategy Identifies Loci on APOC1, BRAP, and PLCG1 Associated with Metabolic Syndrome Phenotype Domains 2011 ·PLoS Genetics ·Christy L. Avery, Qianchuan He, Kari E. North, José Luis Ambite, Eric Boerwinkle, Myriam Fornage, Lucia A. Hindorff, Charles Kooperberg, James B. Meigs, James S. Pankow, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Bruce M. Psaty, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Jerome I. Rotter, Kent D. Taylor, Lynne R. Wilkens, Gerardo Heiss, Dan Lin	77
12	Inflammation, kidney function and albuminuria in the Framingham Offspring cohort 2010 ·Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation ·Ashish Upadhyay, Martin G. Larson, Chao‐Yu Guo, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Izabella Lipinska, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Sekar Kathiresan, James B. Meigs, John F. Keaney, Jian Rong, Emelia J. Benjamin, Caroline S. Fox	131
13	Predicted 25-hydroxyvitamin D score and incident type 2 diabetes in the Framingham Offspring Study 2010 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Enju Liu, James B. Meigs, Anastassios G. Pittas, Christina D. Economos, Nicola M. McKeown, Sarah L. Booth, Paul F. Jacques	127
14	TCF7L2 Variants Associate with CKD Progression and Renal Function in Population-Based Cohorts 2008 ·Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·(unknown), Shih-Jen Hwang, Evadnie Rampersaud, Josef Coresh, Kari E. North, James S. Pankow, James B. Meigs, José C. Florez, Afshin Parsa, Daniel Levy, Eric Boerwinkle, Alan R. Shuldiner, Caroline S. Fox, W.H. Linda Kao	36
15	Soft Drink Consumption and Risk of Developing Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Adults in the Community breakdown → 2007 ·Circulation ·Ravi Dhingra, Lisa Sullivan, Paul F. Jacques, Thomas J. Wang, Caroline S. Fox, James B. Meigs, Ralph B. D’Agostino, J. Michael Gaziano, Ramachandran S. Vasan	719
16	Mortality After Periprosthetic Fracture of the Femur 2007 ·Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery ·Timothy Bhattacharyya, Denis Chang, James B. Meigs, Daniel M. Estok, Henrik Malchau	319
17	Dietary glycemic index is related to metabolic risk factors in the Framingham Offspring Cohort 2004 ·The FASEB Journal ·Nicola M. McKeown, James B. Meigs, (unknown), Edward Saltzman, P W Wilson, Paul F. Jacques	1
18	Obesity Modulates the Association among APOE Genotype, Insulin, and Glucose in Men 2003 ·Obesity Research ·Roberto Elosúa, Serkalem Demissie, L. Adrienne Cupples, James B. Meigs, Peter W.F. Wilson, Ernst J. Schaefer, Dolores Corella, José M. Ordovás	84
19	Epidemiology of the metabolic syndrome, 2002. 2002 ·The American Journal of Managed Care ·James B. Meigs	136
20	Implementation, Usage, and Impact of Automated Guidelines in the DMA: A Web-based Diabetes Disease Management System. 2002 ·PubMed Central ·A. K. Dubey, James B. Meigs, Enrico Cagliero, Henry C. Chueh	1

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