Renata Belfort De Aguiar, MD, PhD

• Dongju Seo
• Elizabeth Sanchez Rangel
• Fangyong Li
• Gary Cline
• James Dziura
• Janice Jin Hwang
• Lisa Parikh
• Rajita Sinha
• Robert Sherwin
• Todd Constable

Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Obesity; Prediabetic State; Glucose Metabolism Disorders

• A placebo-controlled trial of pioglitazone in subjects with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.Belfort R, Harrison SA, Brown K, Darland C, Finch J, Hardies J, Balas B, Gastaldelli A, Tio F, Pulcini J, Berria R, Ma JZ, Dwivedi S, Havranek R, Fincke C, DeFronzo R, Bannayan GA, Schenker S, Cusi K. A placebo-controlled trial of pioglitazone in subjects with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. The New England Journal Of Medicine 2006, 355: 2297-307. PMID: 17135584, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa060326.
• Circulating glucose levels modulate neural control of desire for high-calorie foods in humans.Page KA, Seo D, Belfort-DeAguiar R, Lacadie C, Dzuira J, Naik S, Amarnath S, Constable RT, Sherwin RS, Sinha R. Circulating glucose levels modulate neural control of desire for high-calorie foods in humans. The Journal Of Clinical Investigation 2011, 121: 4161-9. PMID: 21926468, PMCID: PMC3195474, DOI: 10.1172/JCI57873.
• Effects of fructose vs glucose on regional cerebral blood flow in brain regions involved with appetite and reward pathways.Page KA, Chan O, Arora J, Belfort-Deaguiar R, Dzuira J, Roehmholdt B, Cline GW, Naik S, Sinha R, Constable RT, Sherwin RS. Effects of fructose vs glucose on regional cerebral blood flow in brain regions involved with appetite and reward pathways. JAMA 2013, 309: 63-70. PMID: 23280226, PMCID: PMC4076145, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.116975.
• Food Cues and Obesity: Overpowering Hormones and Energy Balance Regulation.Belfort-DeAguiar R, Seo D. Food Cues and Obesity: Overpowering Hormones and Energy Balance Regulation. Current Obesity Reports 2018, 7: 122-129. PMID: 29619632, PMCID: PMC5959777, DOI: 10.1007/s13679-018-0303-1.
• In a Free-Living Setting, Obesity Is Associated with Greater Food Intake in Response to a Similar Pre-Meal Glucose Nadir.Kim J, Lam W, Wang Q, Parikh L, Elshafie A, Sanchez-Rangel E, Schmidt C, Li F, Hwang J, Belfort-DeAguiar R. In a Free-Living Setting, Obesity Is Associated with Greater Food Intake in Response to a Similar Pre-Meal Glucose Nadir. The Journal Of Clinical Endocrinology And Metabolism 2019 PMID: 31087061, PMCID: PMC6667277, DOI: 10.1210/jc.2019-00240.