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List of works by Francesco P. Cappuccio

'Hospital at Night' improves outcomes: does the evidence support opinions?

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-344C/T Variant in the promoter of the aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2) is associated with metabolic syndrome in men.

scientific article published in February 2007

A community programme to reduce salt intake and blood pressure in Ghana [ISRCTN88789643].

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A population study of ethnic variations in the angiotensin-converting enzyme I/D polymorphism: relationships with gender, hypertension and impaired glucose metabolism.

scientific article published in May 1999

A population-based study of reduced sleep duration and hypertension: the strongest association may be in premenopausal women

scientific article published in May 2010

Abnormalities of renal sodium handling in the metabolic syndrome. Results of the Olivetti Heart Study

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Age- and gender-dependent association of the –344C/T polymorphism of CYP11B2 with blood pressure in European populations

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

Alcohol consumption and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in healthy men and women from 3 European populations

scientific article published on 3 December 2008

Aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2) C-344T polymorphism, plasma aldosterone, renin activity and blood pressure in a multi-ethnic population

scientific article published in October 2004

Altered renal sodium handling in men with abdominal adiposity: a link to hypertension

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Ancestry as a determinant of mean population C-reactive protein values: implications for cardiovascular risk prediction

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Are short bad sleep nights a hindrance to a healthy heart?

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Assessment of GFR by four methods in adults in Ashanti, Ghana: the need for an eGFR equation for lean African populations

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Association between the Thr715Pro P-selectin gene polymorphism and soluble P-selectin levels in a multiethnic population in South London

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Associations of selenium status with cardiometabolic risk factors: An 8-year follow-up analysis of the Olivetti Heart Study

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Biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in sleep-deprived people.

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Body size and blood pressure: an analysis of Africans and the African diaspora

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C reactive protein and its determinants in healthy men and women from European regions at different risk of coronary disease: the IMMIDIET Project.

scientific article published on 23 November 2007

Calcium Urolithiasis, Blood Pressure and Salt Intake

scientific article published in January 2003

Cappuccio response to correspondence

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Cardiovascular and other effects of salt consumption

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Cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries: an urgent priority.

scientific article published in January 2012

Cardiovascular risk factors and global risk of fatal cardiovascular disease are positively correlated between partners of 802 married couples from different European countries. Report from the IMMIDIET project

scientific article published in September 2007

Cellular adhesion molecules and blood pressure: interaction with sex in a multi-ethnic population

scientific article published on April 2004

Cellular adhesion molecules and their relationship with measures of obesity and metabolic syndrome in a multiethnic population.

scientific article published on 7 March 2006

Circulating leptin levels predict the development of metabolic syndrome in middle-aged men: an 8-year follow-up study.

scientific article published in August 2007

Circulating soluble E-selectin levels and the Ser 128Arg polymorphism in individuals from different ethnic groups

scientific article published in February 2005

Collaboration to optimize dietary intakes of salt and iodine: a critical but overlooked public health issue

scientific article published on January 2012

Comment on Hogas et al. Salt, Not Always a Cardiovascular Enemy? A Mini-Review and Modern Perspective. 2022, , 1175

scientific article published on 27 December 2022

Commentary: Epidemiological transition, migration, and cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Common variants in the TCF7L2 gene and predisposition to type 2 diabetes in UK European Whites, Indian Asians and Afro-Caribbean men and women

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Comparisons of spot vs 24-h urine samples for estimating population salt intake: validation study in two independent samples of adults in Britain and Italy.

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Correction: The importance of a valid assessment of salt intake in individuals and populations. A scientific statement of the British and Irish Hypertension Society

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Correlates of short and long sleep duration: a cross-cultural comparison between the United Kingdom and the United States: the Whitehall II Study and the Western New York Health Study

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Cross-sectional versus prospective associations of sleep duration with changes in relative weight and body fat distribution: the Whitehall II Study

scientific article published on 15 November 2007

Day-to-day variations in sleep quality affect standing balance in healthy adults

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome: a comparative analysis in an unselected sample of adult male population.

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Diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection, and fever among children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

scientific article published on 11 March 2009

Diuretics and oedema: how to avoid rebound sodium retention

scientific article published in The Lancet

Do Statins Reduce Blood Pressure?

scientific article published on 19 February 2007

Does reducing salt intake increase cardiovascular mortality?

scientific article published on 03 August 2011

Does the effect of behavioral counseling on fruit and vegetable intake vary with stage of readiness to change?

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Double-blind randomised trial of modest salt restriction in older people.

scientific article published in September 1997

Effect of lower sodium intake on health: systematic review and meta-analyses

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Endotoxin and metabolic syndrome

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed

scientific article published on 28 August 2006

Ethnic Differences in Fibrinogen Levels: The Role of Environmental Factors and the beta-Fibrinogen Gene

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Ethnic and sex differences in circulating endotoxin levels: A novel marker of atherosclerotic and cardiovascular risk in a British multi-ethnic population

scientific article published in July 2008

Ethnic differences in blood pressure response to first and second-line antihypertensive therapies in patients randomized in the ASCOT Trial

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Ethnic differences in circulating soluble adhesion molecules: the Wandsworth Heart and Stroke Study

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Ethnic variation in levels of circulating IgG autoantibodies to oxidised low-density lipoprotein

scientific article published on 5 June 2008

Folate intake and folate serum levels in men and women from two European populations: The IMMIDIET project

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Gender-specific associations of short sleep duration with prevalent and incident hypertension: the Whitehall II Study

scientific article published on 4 September 2007

Genetic Variations at the Endocannabinoid Type 1 Receptor Gene (CNR1) Are Associated with Obesity Phenotypes in Men

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Genetic variants of Y chromosome are associated with a protective lipid profile in black men.

scientific article published on 29 May 2008

Genetic variation of alcohol dehydrogenase type 1C (ADH1C), alcohol consumption, and metabolic cardiovascular risk factors: results from the IMMIDIET study.

scientific article published on 24 April 2009

Genomewide association study using a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism array and case-control design identifies a novel essential hypertension susceptibility locus in the promoter region of endothelial NO synthase

scientific article published on 19 December 2011

Habitual salt intake and risk of gastric cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective studies.

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Health claims on foods: promoting healthy food choices or high salt intake?

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High blood pressure and bone-mineral loss in elderly white women: a prospective study

scientific article published in The Lancet

High-Circulating Leptin Levels Are Associated with Greater Risk of Hypertension in Men Independently of Body Mass and Insulin Resistance: Results of an Eight-Year Follow-Up Study

scientific article published on 05 August 2008

Higher selenium status is associated with adverse blood lipid profile in British adults

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How to cut down salt intake in populations

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Hyperleptinemia is associated with hypertension, systemic inflammation and insulin resistance in overweight but not in normal weight men.

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Hypertension management in Kumasi: barriers and prejudice?

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Implementing a 48 h EWTD-compliant rota for junior doctors in the UK does not compromise patients' safety: assessor-blind pilot comparison

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Incidence of hypertension in individuals with different blood pressure salt-sensitivity: results of a 15-year follow-up study

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Inflammation, sleep, obesity and cardiovascular disease

scientific article published in April 2007

Interaction between the C(-344)T polymorphism of CYP11B2 and age in the regulation of blood pressure and plasma aldosterone levels: cross-sectional and longitudinal findings of the Olivetti Prospective Heart Study.

scientific article published in September 2002

Is prolonged lack of sleep associated with obesity?

scientific article published on May 26, 2011

Is there a role for nurse-led blood pressure management in primary care?

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Less Salt and Less Risk of Stroke

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Low serum adiponectin predicts 10-year risk of type 2 diabetes and HbA1c independently of obesity, lipids, and inflammation: Whitehall II study.

scientific article published on 15 April 2009

Malnutrition among children under the age of five in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): does geographic location matter?

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Morbidity from diarrhoea, cough and fever among young children in Nigeria.

scientific article published in July 2008

National survey to estimate sodium and potassium intake and knowledge attitudes and behaviours towards salt consumption of adults in the Sultanate of Oman

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

New evidence relating to the health impact of reducing salt intake.

scientific article published on September 2011

Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension

scientific article published in The Lancet

Pilot study of potential barriers to blood pressure control in patients with inadequately controlled hypertension.

scientific article published on 29 March 2007

Plant-Based Dietary Patterns for Human and Planetary Health

scientific article published in 2022

Plasma vitamin C levels in men and women from different ethnic backgrounds living in England.

scientific article published in June 1999

Policy options to reduce population salt intake

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Potassium intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease a meta-analysis of prospective studies.

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Predictors of resistant hypertension in an unselected sample of an adult male population in Italy.

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Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in healthy unrelated male-female pairs of European regions: the dietary habit profile in European communities with different risk of myocardial infarction--the impact of migration as a mod

scientific article published in December 2008

Prevalence, detection, management, and control of hypertension in Ashanti, West Africa

scientific article published on 22 March 2004

Prevention of cardiovascular disease in clinical practice: The Joint British Societies' (JBS 2) guidelines

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a web-based risk score for seven British black and minority ethnic groups

scientific article published on 8 June 2006

Psychological and social predictors of changes in fruit and vegetable consumption over 12 months following behavioral and nutrition education counseling

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Psychological factors associated with fruit and vegetable intake and with biomarkers in adults from a low-income neighborhood

scientific article published in March 2003

Quality of life and self-rated health in relation to changes in fruit and vegetable intake and in plasma vitamins C and E in a randomised trial of behavioural and nutritional education counselling

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Quantity and quality of sleep and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Race-specific differences in antioxidant enzyme activity in patients with type 2 diabetes: a potential association with the risk of developing nephropathy

scientific article published in July 2005

Registering refugee and asylum-seeking doctors

scientific article published in The Lancet

Relationship of the Trp64Arg polymorphism of the beta3-adrenoceptor gene to central adiposity and high blood pressure: interaction with age. Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings of the Olivetti Prospective Heart Study.

scientific article published in March 2001

Relationships between sleep duration and von Willebrand factor, factor VII, and fibrinogen: Whitehall II study

scientific article published on 22 July 2010

Renal artery stenosis: a common and important problem in patients with peripheral vascular disease.

scientific article published on January 1994

Reply to Chiolero: Salt intake monitoring at a population level

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Residual lifetime risk of hypertension is 90% for middle-aged and elderly white people

SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans

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Salt Reduction Strategies in Portuguese School Meals, from Pre-School to Secondary Education-The Eat Mediterranean Program

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Salt intake of the Slovene population assessed by 24 h urinary sodium excretion.

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Salt intake, stroke, and cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of prospective studies

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Salt: the dying echoes of the food industry.

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure in Primary Care: Is It Useful?

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Serotonin and heart rate in hypertensive and normotensive subjects

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Sleep and mortality: cause, consequence, or symptom?

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Sleep duration predicts cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

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Sleep in children and adolescents: a worrying scenario: can we understand the sleep deprivation-obesity epidemic?

scientific article published on 26 February 2007

Sodium and Potassium Intake in Healthy Adults in Thessaloniki Greater Metropolitan Area-The Salt Intake in Northern Greece (SING) Study.

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Sodium and Potassium Intake, Knowledge Attitudes and Behaviour Towards Salt Consumption Amongst Adults in Podgorica, Montenegro

scientific article published on 13 January 2019

Sodium, Potassium and Iodine Intake, in A National Adult Population Sample of the Republic of Moldova

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Sodium-lithium countertransport and body fat distribution

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Spatial variation of salt intake in Britain and association with socioeconomic status

scientific article published on 7 January 2013

Systematic review of studies comparing 24-hour and spot urine collections for estimating population salt intake.

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Telomere length attrition, a marker of biological senescence, is inversely correlated with triglycerides and cholesterol in South Asian males with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published in March 2012

The Journal of Human Hypertension becomes the official journal of the British and Irish Hypertension Society

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

The challenges of cross-national research in primary health care across Europe

scientific article published on 18 March 2005

The importance of a valid assessment of salt intake in individuals and populations. A scientific statement of the British and Irish Hypertension Society

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

The ‘scent’ and ‘flavour’ of hypertension

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Unnecessary Controversy Regarding Dietary Sodium: A Lot About a Little

scientific article published on 08 June 2011

Validation of a food-frequency questionnaire for Flemish and Italian-native subjects in Belgium: The IMMIDIET study

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