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FOUNDING EDITOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Professor Enrique Fisman, MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Specialisms: Cardiovascular diabetology, Cardiovascular drug therapy, Echocardiography, Lipidology





FOUNDING EDITOR AND EMERITUS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Professor Alexander Tenenbaum, MD, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel (deceased 2021)


Deputy Editor:

Francisco Westermeier, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Science, Department of Health Studies, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria

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Specialisms: Endothelial dysfunction, Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Postviral infection syndromes




Social Media Editor:

Pasquale Paolisso, MD, Department of University Cardiology, IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy

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Specialisms: Acute coronary syndrome, MINOCA, SGLT2i, Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), stress Hyperglycemia, Aortic stenosis.





Associate Editors:

Amy Alman, PhD, MSPH, University of South Florida, USA

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Specialisms: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Type 1 diabetes, Periodontal disease, Oral microbiome, Inflammation, Adipose tissue




Samaneh Asgari, PhD, Prevention of metabolic disorder research center, Research institute for Endocrine sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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Specialisms: Biostatistics, Epidemiology of non communicable diseases, Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular events, Lipid profiles




Ioannis Avgerinos, MD, MSc, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Specialisms : Diabetes Mellitus, Internal Medicine, Evidence-Based Medicine, Systematic Reviews, Meta-analysis, Guidelines Development, Shared-Decision Making, Clinical Trials




Professor Joseph Azuri, MD, MHA, Dep. of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Specialisms: Diabetes, primary care, family physician, preventive medicine, smoking cessation, epidemiology




Ileana Badi, PhD, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Specialisms: MicroRNAs, Vascular calcification, Vascular smooth muscle cells, Adipose tissue, Molecular biology




Professor Yochai Birnbaum, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

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Specialisms: Myocardial inflammation, Ischemia reperfusion, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, Pleiotropic effects of drugs




Associate Professor, Petter Bjornstad, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA

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Specialisms: Diabetic kidney disease, Early cardiovascular disease, Youth-onset type 2 diabetes, Type 1 diabetes, SGLT2i, Mechanistic trials, MRI, PET





Miles De Blasio, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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Specialisms: Cardiomyopathy, Diabetes, Obesity, Adiponectin, AAV Gene Therapy, Cardiac metabolism, O-GlcNacylation




Yexuan Cao, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

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Specialisms : Cardiovascular disease, Cardiometabolic disease, Atherosclerosis,  genetic disease, Lipid profiles, metabolism, Diabetes, translational medicine, Clinical trials



Soo-Kyoung Choi, PhD, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, Hypertension, Vascular physiology, Endothelial dysfunction, Smooth muscle physiology




Stefano Ciardullo, MD, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

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Specialisms: NAFLD/MASLD and cardiovascular risk, Insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk, Diabetes and heart failure, SGLT2-i and heart failure, Meta-analyses



Kim A. Connelly, MBBS, PhD, FSCMR, FCCS, Unity Health Toronto, Canada, St. Michael's Hospital, Canada, and University of Toronto, Canada

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Integrins, Fibrosis, Cardiac MRI, Hypertrophy





Ayotunde Dokun, MD, PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, United States of America

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Specialisms: Angiogenesis, Diabetes, Ischemic Diabetes, Peripheral artery disease, Critical limb ischemia, Hind limb ischemia, Limb threatening ischemia, MicroRNA regulation of angiogenesis, MicroRNA regulation of post ischemic adaptation, MicroRNA in PAD


Natalia Eberhardt, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, USA

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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Atherosclerosis, Chronic inflammation, Immunology, T cells, Cellular mechanisms, Immunometabolism



Wenjun Fan, MD, PhD, University of California Irvine, USA

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Specialisms: Preventive Cardiology, Diabetes Mellitus, Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Lipidology




Giulia Ferrannini, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

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Specialisms: Coronary artery disease, Heart failure, Diabetes, Prediabetes, Screening, Secondary prevention




Professor Tingting Geng, MPH, PhD, Fudan University, China

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Chronic kidney disease, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic disease, Ageing, Epidemiology, Nutritional epidemiology, OMICS, Mendelian randomization, Cohort study



Resham L Gurung, PhD, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore

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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes, Molecular Epidemiology of Diabetes Cardiorenal complications, Biomarker Discovery, Mendelian Randomisation, Ageing and metabolic diseases



Jiaqi Huang, PhD, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China

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Specialisms: Epidemiology, Nutrition, Risk factor, Metabolomics, Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Mortality, Chronic disease




Kyoung Hwa Ha, PhD, Ajou University School of Medicine, South Korea

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Specialisms: Big Data Analytics, Diabetes, Epidemiology, Obesity, Pharmacoepidemiology





Jorge E Jalil, MD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Rajesh Katare, MD, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, MicroRNA, Exosomes, Stem cells, Cardiac function



Yun Gi Kim, MD, PhD, Korea University Medicine Anam Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Specialisms: Atrial fibrillation, Diabetes mellitus, Sudden cardiac death, Hypertension, Ventricular arrhythmias





Preman Kumarathurai, MD, PhD, MSc, Odense University Hospital, Denmark

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Specialisms: Heart failure, Diabetes, Echocardiography, Clinical trials




Professor Naoki Kumashiro, MD, PhD, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan

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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes, Early treatment, SGLT2 inhibitor, DPP4 inhibitor, FMD, Cardiac fat accumulation, isCGM, Fatty liver, Insulin resistance



Gokulakrishnan Kuppan, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), India

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Specialisms: Gut microbiome, Epigenetics, Metabolic Diseases, Neuro-Psychiatric disorders, Biomarker(s) identification for early disease prediction, Molecular benefits of lifestyle intervention 



Dr. biol. hum. Jens Kroll, Heidelberg University, Germany

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Specialisms: Microvasculature, angiogenesis, diabetic organ complication, metabolism, reactive metabolites and detoxifying enzymes, zebrafish




Associate Professor Hsin-Fu Lee, MD, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and New Taipei City Municipal Tucheng Hospital, Taiwan

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Specialisms: Coronary Intervention, Peripheral Vascular Intervention, Interventional Cardiology, Echocardiography, Cardiovascular Pharmacology




Sindre Lee-ØdegÃ¥rd, MD, PhD, University of Oslo, Norway

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Specialisms: Exercise, Insulin resistance, South Asian, Omics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics




Kun Ling Ma, MD, PhD, Zhejiang University, China

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Specialisms: Diabetic Nephropathy, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, Atherosclerosis, chronic inflammation, chronic kidney disease, lipid nephrotoxicity.



Enrico Longato, PhD, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

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Specialisms : Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Biomedical engineering, Observational studies, Real-world data


Oscar Lorenzo, PhD, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-University Autonoma, Spain

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiomyopathy





Professor Didac Mauricio, MD, PhD, University of Vic & Central University of Catalonia, Catalonia, Spain

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Specialisms: Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Diabetes complications, Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular risk factors, Prevention



Kamel Mohammedi, MD, PhD, Bordeaux Université & Hospital, France

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Kidney disease, Peripheral artery disease




Tomohisa Nagoshi, MD, PhD, FJCC, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan

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Specialisms: Cardiac energy metabolism, Heart Failure, Ischemic heart diseases, Insulin resistance, Glucose transporters, Natriuretic peptides, Aldosterone, Uric acid, Cardiac catheter intervention 



Lorenzo Nesti, MD, MSc, University of Pisa, Italy

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Specialisms: Heart failure, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, Cardiopulmonary exercise test, Echocardiography, Speckle tracking, Clinical nutrition, Exercise physiology, Prevention, Type 2 diabetes, Obesity, SGLT2-inhibitors, GLP1-R agonists


Huang-tz Ou, Rph, MS, PhD, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Patient-reported outcomes




Professor Dr. med. Francesco Paneni, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

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Specialisms: Epigenetics, Endothelial dysfunction, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, Heart failure, SGLT2i, GLP-1 RA, Hyperglycemia, Obesity, Angiogenesis



Pasquale Paolisso, MD, Department of University Cardiology, IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy

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Specialisms: Acute coronary syndrome, MINOCA, SGLT2i, Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), stress Hyperglycemia, Aortic stenosis.




Susana Ravassa Albéniz, PhD, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

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Specialisms: Biomarkers, Myocardial remodeling, Fibrosis, Heart failure, Hypertension, Outcomes




Zach Rozenbaum, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Tulane University, USA

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Specialisms: Interventional Cardiology, Structural Heart Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Embolism




Gaetano Santulli, MD, PhD, FAHA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

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Specialisms: Heart failure, Hypertension, Arrhythmias, Insulin resistance, Beta cell failure, Mitochondria, Endothelial dysfunction, Non-coding RNA, Calcium, Oxidative stress


Associate Professor, Giovanni Sartore, MD, University of Padua, Italy

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Specialisms: Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Complications, Lipoproteins





Lucia Scisciola, PhD, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Science, Naples, Italy

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Specialisms : Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, SGLT2-i and heart failure, Metabolism, Aging, Epigenetics




Professor Cristina M. Sena, PhD, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Obesity, Vascular disease





Binayak Sinha, MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCP (London), Amri Hospitals Kolkata, India

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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease,SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP1 receptor analogues, Meta-analysis, Insulin and complications of diabetes, Insulin resistance




Associate Professor, Atsushi Tanaka, MD, PhD, Saga University, Japan

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Specialisms: Cardiometabolic syndrome, Heart failure, Atherosclerosis, Clinical trial, Pharmacotherapy



Aaron Trask, PhD, FAHA, FCVS, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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Specialisms: Cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology, Coronary microvascular disease, Vascular biomechanics, Heart failure, Cardiovascular complications of diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Hypertension, Machine learning, Microcirculation



Prof. Hung-Fat Tse, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCP, FHKCP, FACC, FESC, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Tetsuro Tsujimoto, MD, PhD, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Japan

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Heart failure, Obesity





Sabyasachi Sen, MD, FRCP (London), FRCP (Edin), FACP, FACE, FAHA, FNLA, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and George Washington University, USA

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Specialisms:  Endothelial dysfunction, diabetes mellitus, adult stem cell biology





Rui Wei, PhD, Peking University Third Hospital, China

Hongjiang Wu, MD, MPH, PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

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Specialisms: Diabetes epidemiology, Population surveillance of diabetes, Young-onset type 2 diabetes




Jianbo Wu, MD, PhD, Southwest Medical University, China

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, Vascular physiology, Endothelial dysfunction, Angiogenesis, Adipose tissue, Mesenchymal stem cells, microRNA, Exosome, Smooth muscle cells




Assistant Professor Xiangwei Xiao, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Beta-cell biology, Pancreas development, Islet immunology,  Vascular disorders, Autoimmune diseases, Cancer biology, Extracellular vehicles, Tissue resident macrophages, Signaling pathway interaction


Yang Xiao, MD, PhD, Central South University, the Second Xiangya Hospital, China

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Specialisms: Diabetes, Diabetic cardiovascular complications, Immunometabolism, Dyslipidaemia, Gut Microbiome, Fibrosis. 



Zhenhua Xing, MD, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China

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Specialisms: Obesity, Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Heart failure






Yilin Yoshida, PhD, MPH, Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine, USA

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Specialisms: Cardiometabolic Epidemiology, Complications of Diabetes, Sex Differences, Women’s Health, Health Disparities





Editorial Board
Victor Aboyans, MD, PhD, FAHA, FESC, Department of Cardiology, Dupuytren Hospital and Limoges University, Limoges, France
Professor Yehuda Adler, MD, MPH, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Professor Eddy Barasch, MD, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA 
Antonio Ceriello, MD, PhD, IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy 
Amanda J Cox, PhD, Griffith University, Southport, Australia
Sergio Dubner, MD, Clínica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Professor Abdalla El-Mowafy, PhD, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 
Professor Ricardo J. Esper, MD, FACC, Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Professor Gian Paolo Fadini, MD, PhD, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Professor Almudena Gómez-Hernández, PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Byron J. Hoogwerf, MD, FACP, FACE, Cleveland Clinic and Eli Lilly & Co. (retired) FL, USA
Professor Rodrigo Jiménez-García, MD, PhD, MPH, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Naoto Katakami, MD, PhD, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Professor Robert Klempfner, MD, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
Gary D Lopaschuk, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 
Professor Norikazu Maeda, MD, PhD, Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Japan
Paolo Marzullo, MD, PhD, Università Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Jordi Merino, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Professor Michael Motro, MD, FACC, FAHA, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
James T. Pearson, PhD, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan
Etheresia Pretorius, PhD, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Giuseppe Pugliese, MD, PhD, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy   
Professor Giuseppe M. Rosano, MD, PhD, M.Sc., St George's Hospitals NHS Trust University of London, London, UK 
Gil S Salles, MD, PhD, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eberhard Standl, MD, PhD, Munich Diabetes Research Group, Munich, Germany 
Professor Ki-chul Sung, MD, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Professor Gilad TwigMD, MPH, PhD, Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Charissa E van den Brom, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Professor Suowen Xu, PhD, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Yung-Hsin Yeh, MD, Chung-Gung University and Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Jian Zhou, PhD, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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