Kim L. Ho

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kim L. Ho is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kim L. Ho has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Physiology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Kim L. Ho's work include Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (9 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (8 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (8 papers). Kim L. Ho is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (9 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (8 papers) and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (8 papers). Kim L. Ho collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Iraq and United States. Kim L. Ho's co-authors include Qutuba G. Karwi, Golam M. Uddin, Gary D. Lopaschuk, Cory S. Wagg, Liyan Zhang, John R. Ussher, Simran Pherwani, Gavin Y. Oudit, Keshav Gopal and Ezra B. Ketema and has published in prestigious journals such as Diabetologia, Cardiovascular Research and American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Kim L. Ho

18 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Loss of Metabolic Flexibility in the Failing Heart 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2018 100 200 300
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.

  1. Loss of Metabolic Flexibility in the Failing Heart
    2018 313 citations Qutuba G. Karwi, Golam M. Uddin et al. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine profile →
  2. Empagliflozin Increases Cardiac Energy Production in Diabetes
    2018 293 citations Subodh Verma, Sonia Rawat et al. JACC Basic to Translational Science profile →

Peers

Kim L. Ho
Jody Levasseur Canada
Keshav Gopal Canada
Julie L. Horton United States
Shuiqing Yu United States
Jonathan Buchanan United States
Heather Theobald United States
Indu Poornima United States
Ray Kozak Canada
Andrew N. Carley United States
Tatsujiro Oka Japan
Jody Levasseur Canada
Kim L. Ho
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kim L. Ho

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kim L. Ho. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kim L. Ho based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kim L. Ho. Kim L. Ho is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Pherwani, Simran, David Connolly, Qiuyu Sun, et al.. (2024). Ketones provide an extra source of fuel for the failing heart without impairing glucose oxidation. Metabolism. 154. 155818–155818. 8 indexed citations
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Ho, Kim L., Qutuba G. Karwi, Faqi Wang, et al.. (2024). The ketogenic diet does not improve cardiac function and blunts glucose oxidation in ischaemic heart failure. Cardiovascular Research. 120(10). 1126–1137. 10 indexed citations
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Greenwell, Amanda A., Kim L. Ho, Keshav Gopal, et al.. (2022). An isoproteic cocoa butter-based ketogenic diet fails to improve glucose homeostasis and promote weight loss in obese mice. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 323(1). E8–E20. 8 indexed citations
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Ho, Kim L., Qutuba G. Karwi, David J. Connolly, et al.. (2022). Metabolic, structural and biochemical changes in diabetes and the development of heart failure. Diabetologia. 65(3). 411–423. 41 indexed citations
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Kwon, Soie, Clara Tammy Kim, Dong Ki Kim, et al.. (2022). Ambient carbon monoxide correlates with mortality risk of hemodialysis patients: comparing results of controlselection in the case-crossover designs. Kidney Research and Clinical Practice. 41(5). 601–610. 6 indexed citations
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Greenwell, Amanda A., Keshav Gopal, Tariq Altamimi, et al.. (2021). Barth syndrome-related cardiomyopathy is associated with a reduction in myocardial glucose oxidation. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 320(6). H2255–H2269. 10 indexed citations
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Uddin, Golam M., Qutuba G. Karwi, Simran Pherwani, et al.. (2021). Deletion of BCATm increases insulin-stimulated glucose oxidation in the heart. Metabolism. 124. 154871–154871. 30 indexed citations
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Karwi, Qutuba G., et al.. (2021). Concurrent diabetes and heart failure: interplay and novel therapeutic approaches. Cardiovascular Research. 118(3). 686–715. 50 indexed citations
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Karwi, Qutuba G., Cory S. Wagg, Tariq Altamimi, et al.. (2020). Insulin directly stimulates mitochondrial glucose oxidation in the heart. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 19(1). 207–207. 41 indexed citations
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Lopaschuk, Gary D., Qutuba G. Karwi, Kim L. Ho, Simran Pherwani, & Ezra B. Ketema. (2020). Ketone metabolism in the failing heart. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1865(12). 158813–158813. 60 indexed citations
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Ho, Kim L., Qutuba G. Karwi, Cory S. Wagg, et al.. (2020). Ketones can become the major fuel source for the heart but do not increase cardiac efficiency. Cardiovascular Research. 117(4). 1178–1187. 62 indexed citations
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Ho, Kim L., Liyan Zhang, Cory S. Wagg, et al.. (2019). Increased ketone body oxidation provides additional energy for the failing heart without improving cardiac efficiency. Cardiovascular Research. 115(11). 1606–1616. 145 indexed citations
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Uddin, Golam M., Liyan Zhang, Saumya Shah, et al.. (2019). Impaired branched chain amino acid oxidation contributes to cardiac insulin resistance in heart failure. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 18(1). 117 indexed citations
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Karwi, Qutuba G., et al.. (2018). Loss of Metabolic Flexibility in the Failing Heart. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 5. 68–68. 313 indexed citations breakdown →
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Verma, Subodh, Sonia Rawat, Kim L. Ho, et al.. (2018). Empagliflozin Increases Cardiac Energy Production in Diabetes. JACC Basic to Translational Science. 3(5). 575–587. 293 indexed citations breakdown →
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Batran, Rami Al, Keshav Gopal, Mackenzie D. Martin, et al.. (2018). Skeletal muscle-specific Cre recombinase expression, controlled by the human α-skeletal actin promoter, improves glucose tolerance in mice fed a high-fat diet. Diabetologia. 61(8). 1849–1855. 8 indexed citations
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Gopal, Keshav, Bruno Saleme, Rami Al Batran, et al.. (2017). FoxO1 regulates myocardial glucose oxidation rates via transcriptional control of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 4 expression. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 313(3). H479–H490. 51 indexed citations
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Ho, Kim L., Cory S. Wagg, Liyan Zhang, John R. Ussher, & Gary D. Lopaschuk. (2017). The contribution of fatty acid and ketone body oxidation to energy production increases in the failing heart and is associated with a decrease in cardiac efficiency. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 112. 143–143. 1 indexed citations

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