Yoichiro Hirata

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Yoichiro Hirata is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoichiro Hirata has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 26 papers in Surgery and 22 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yoichiro Hirata's work include Congenital Heart Disease Studies (12 papers), Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (10 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (8 papers). Yoichiro Hirata is often cited by papers focused on Congenital Heart Disease Studies (12 papers), Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (10 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (8 papers). Yoichiro Hirata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Norway and United States. Yoichiro Hirata's co-authors include Masataka Sata, Michio Shimabukuro, Hirotsugu Kurobe, Takeshi Soeki, Tetsuya Kitagawa, Kimie Tanaka, Yasutomi Higashikuni, Daiju Fukuda, Shusuke Yagi and Mayuko Higashida and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Yoichiro Hirata

72 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Through Heart-Brain Interaction Initiates Cardiac Inflammation and Hypertrophy During Pressure Overload

2022 108 citations Yasutomi Higashikuni, Wenhao Liu et al. Circulation profile →

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Daisuke Fujioka Japan

Takafumi Okura Japan

Alan J. Mouton United States

Alkistis Kapelouzou Greece

Frank Spillmann Germany

Massimo Puato Italy

Jens Lutz Germany

Jeffrey Kroon Netherlands

Dimitrios Stakos Greece

Stephan H. Schirmer Germany

Daisuke Fujioka Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoichiro Hirata

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yoichiro Hirata. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yoichiro Hirata 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 Yoichiro Hirata. Yoichiro Hirata is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kobayashi, Yukio, et al.. (2025). Real-world Effectiveness and Tolerability of Lurasidone in Outpatients with Bipolar DisorderII- A 24 week retrospective study (RETLO-BDIIstudy). Journal of Affective Disorders. 379. 266–272.

Shikata, Fumiaki, et al.. (2024). Fast-track extubation guided by pulmonary artery pressure monitoring after ventricular septal defect closure in infants with pulmonary hypertension. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. 72. 101710–101710. 1 indexed citations

Hirata, Yoichiro, et al.. (2024). Factors associated with cognitive dysfunction in treatment-responsive and -resistant schizophrenia: A pilot cross-sectional study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 178. 228–235. 1 indexed citations

Sato, Iori, Yoichiro Hirata, Masahiko Sugiyama, et al.. (2023). Fact-finding survey of doctors at the departments of pediatrics and pediatric surgery on the transition of patients with childhood-onset chronic disease from pediatric to adult healthcare. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0289927–e0289927. 1 indexed citations

Miura, Itaru, et al.. (2023). Switching to lemborexant for the management of insomnia in mental disorders: the SLIM study. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. 19(10). 1753–1758. 2 indexed citations

Higashikuni, Yasutomi, Wenhao Liu, Genri Numata, et al.. (2022). NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Through Heart-Brain Interaction Initiates Cardiac Inflammation and Hypertrophy During Pressure Overload. Circulation. 147(4). 338–355. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

Suzuki, Seigo, Sachiko Kita, Iori Sato, et al.. (2022). Efficacy of a Transitional Support Program Among Adolescent Patients With Childhood-Onset Chronic Diseases: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 10. 829602–829602. 7 indexed citations

Hirata, Yoichiro, Akihito Saito, Hiroko Asakai, et al.. (2020). Successful angioplasties using high pressure large balloons in a patient with severe anastomotic pulmonary artery stenosis soon after single-lung transplantation. Journal of Cardiology Cases. 22(1). 22–25.

Asakai, Hiroko, Katsutoshi Nakano, Hikoro Matsui, et al.. (2020). Intra-Peritoneal Migration of an Epicardial Pacemaker Causing Recurrent Vomiting. 4(2). 90–92.

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Asakai, Hiroko, et al.. (2019). Cardiac Rhythm Disturbances in Heterotaxy Syndrome. Pediatric Cardiology. 40(5). 909–913. 14 indexed citations

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Shiozawa, Yusuke, Ryo Inuzuka, Takahiro Shindo, et al.. (2018). Effect of i.v. immunoglobulin in the first 4 days of illness in Kawasaki disease. Pediatrics International. 60(4). 334–341. 12 indexed citations

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Fukuda, Daiju, Hotimah Masdan Salim, Sachiko Nishimoto, et al.. (2018). Ticagrelor, a P2Y12 antagonist, attenuates vascular dysfunction and inhibits atherogenesis in apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice. Atherosclerosis. 275. 124–132. 25 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Mayumi, Sachiko Kita, Yoichiro Hirata, et al.. (2017). A Qualitative Assessment of Adolescent Girls' Perception of Living with Congenital Heart Disease: Focusing on Future Pregnancies and Childbirth. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 38. e12–e18. 13 indexed citations

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Salim, Hotimah Masdan, Daiju Fukuda, Yasutomi Higashikuni, et al.. (2017). Teneligliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, attenuated pro-inflammatory phenotype of perivascular adipose tissue and inhibited atherogenesis in normoglycemic apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice. Vascular Pharmacology. 96-98. 19–25. 45 indexed citations

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Takashima, Akira, Daiju Fukuda, Kimie Tanaka, et al.. (2016). Combination of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids reduces atherogenesis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice by inhibiting macrophage activation. Atherosclerosis. 254. 142–150. 31 indexed citations

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Inuzuka, Ryo, et al.. (2013). Serum Hyaluronic Acid Concentration in Fontan Circulation: Correlation With Hepatic Function and Portal Vein Hemodynamics. Pediatric Cardiology. 35(4). 608–615. 11 indexed citations

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Tian, Zhe, Keishi Miyata, Hirokazu Tazume, et al.. (2013). Perivascular adipose tissue-secreted angiopoietin-like protein 2 (Angptl2) accelerates neointimal hyperplasia after endovascular injury. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 57. 1–12. 66 indexed citations

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Shimabukuro, Michio, Daiju Fukuda, Takeshi Soeki, et al.. (2012). Telmisartan ameliorates insulin sensitivity by activating the AMPK/SIRT1 pathway in skeletal muscle of obese db/db mice. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 11(1). 139–139. 56 indexed citations

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Iwase, T., Seiichi Takao, T Niki, et al.. (2010). Diagnostic utility of cardiac magnetic resonance for detection of cardiac involvement in female carriers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Heart Asia. 2(1). 52–55. 4 indexed citations

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Kaneko, Yukihiro, et al.. (2003). Left Innominate Vein?Pulmonary Artery Shunt with Glenn Anastomosis in a Fontan Candidate with Central Pulmonary Artery Stenosis. Pediatric Cardiology. 24(5). 516–519. 1 indexed citations

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