Babagoli MA, Nieto-Martínez R, González-Rivas JP, Sivaramakrishnan K, Mechanick JI. Roles for community health workers in diabetes prevention and management in low- and middle-income countries. Cad Saude Publica. 2021 Oct 29;37(10):e00287120. doi: 10.1590/0102-311X00287120. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34730688/

Maranhao Neto GA, Pavlovska I, Polcrova A, Mechanick JI, Infante-Garcia MM, Hernandez JP, Araujo MA, Nieto-Martinez R, Gonzalez-Rivas JP. Prediction of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Czech Adults: Normative Values and Association with Cardiometabolic Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 29;18(19):10251. doi: 10.3390/ijerph181910251. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34639552/

Utzschneider KM, Younes N, Rasouli N, Barzilay JI, Banerji MA, Cohen RM, Gonzalez EV, Ismail-Beigi F, Mather KJ, Raskin P, Wexler DJ, Lachin JM, Kahn SE; GRADE Research Group (Nieto-Martinez, R). Shape of the OGTT glucose response curve: relationship with β-cell function and differences by sex, race, and BMI in adults with early type 2 diabetes treated with metformin. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2021 Sep;9(1):e002264. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2021-002264. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34531242/

Nieto-Martínez R, González-Rivas JP, Mechanick JI. Cardiometabolic risk: New chronic care models. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2021 Sep 14. doi: 10.1002/jpen.2264. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34519362. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34519362/ 

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. Lancet. 2021 Sep 11;398(10304):957-980. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01330-1. Epub 2021 Aug 24. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34450083/

Pavlovska I, Polcrova A, Mechanick JI, Brož J, Infante-Garcia MM, Nieto-Martínez R, Maranhao Neto GA, Kunzova S, Skladana M, Novotny JS, Pikhart H, Urbanová J, Stokin GB, Medina-Inojosa JR, Vysoky R, González-Rivas JP. Dysglycemia and Abnormal Adiposity Drivers of Cardiometabolic-Based Chronic Disease in the Czech Population: Biological, Behavioral, and Cultural/Social Determinants of Health. Nutrients. 2021 Jul 8;13(7):2338. doi: 10.3390/nu13072338. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34371848/

Luchsinger JA, Younes N, Manly JJ, Barzilay J, Valencia W, Larkin ME, Falck-Ytter C, Krause-Steinrauf H, Pop-Busui R, Florez H, Seaquist E; GRADE Research Group; GRADE Research Group Investigators Nieto-Martinez, R). Association of Glycemia, Lipids, and Blood Pressure With Cognitive Performance in People With Type 2 Diabetes in the Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness Study (GRADE). Diabetes Care. 2021 Oct;44(10):2286-2292. doi: 10.2337/dc20-2858. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PMID: 34285097. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34285097/

González-Rivas JP, Mechanick JI, Ponte C, de Oliveira-Gomes D, Iglesias-Fortes R, Machado L, Duran M, Marulanda MI, Nieto-Martínez R. Impact of the complex humanitarian crisis on the epidemiology of the cardiometabolic risk factors in Venezuela. Clin Investig Arterioscler. 2021 Jul 24: S0214-9168(21)00094-2. English, Spanish. doi: 10.1016/j.arteri.2021.04.002. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34315627/

Anna Polcrova, Iuliia Pavlovska, Geraldo A. Maranhao Neto, Sarka Kunzova, Maria M. Infante-Garcia, Jose R. Medina-Inojosa, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Ramfis Nieto-Martinez, Gorazd B. Stokin, Juan P. Gonzalez-Rivas. Visceral Fat Area and Cardiometabolic Risk: The Kardiovize Study. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 18 March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orcp.2021.03.005

Iuliia Pavlovska, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Geraldo A. Maranhao Neto, Maria M. Infante-Garcia, Ramfis Nieto-Martinez, Sarka Kunzova, Anna Polcrova, Robert Vysoky, Jose R. Medina-Inojosa, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Gorazd B. Stokin, Juan P. González-Rivas. Arterial Stiffness and Cardiometabolic-Based Chronic Disease: The Kardiovize Study. March 2021 Endocrine Practice. DOI:10.1016/j.eprac.2021.03.004

Juan P. Gonzalez‐Rivas, Jeffrey I. Mechanick José Pantaleón Hernandez, María M Infante‐Garcia, Iuliia Pavlovska, José R. Medina‐Inojosa, Sarka Kunzova, Ramfis Nieto‐Martinez, Jan Brož, Luca Busetto, Geraldo A Maranhao Neto, Francisco Lopez‐Jimenez, Jana Urbanová, Gorazd B Stokin. Prevalence of Adiposity‐Based Chronic Disease in middle‐aged adults from Czech Republic. The Kardiovize Study. Obesity Science and Practice. 25 February 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/osp4.496

Aldridge RW, Burns R, Kirkby V, Elsay N, Murray E, Perski O, Navaratnam AM, Williamson EJ, Nieto-Martínez R, Miranda JJ, Hugenholtz GCG. Health on the Move (HOME) Study: Using a smartphone app to explore the health and wellbeing of migrants in the United Kingdom. Wellcome Open Res. 2020 Nov 11;5:268. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16348.1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33842695/

Juan P. Gonzalez-Rivas, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Maria M. Infante-Garcia, Jose R. Medina-Inojosa, Iuliia Pavlovka, Ota Hlinomaz, Petr Zak, Sarka Kunzova, Ramfis Nieto-Martinez, Mária Skladaná, Jan Brož, Jose Pantaleon Hernandez, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Gorazd B Stokin. Prevalence of Dysglycemia-Based Chronic Disease (DBCD) in a European Population: A New Paradigm to Address Diabetes Burden. The Kardiovize Study. Endocr Pract 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eprac.2020.10.003

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants. Lancet 2020 396; 1511-24. https://imperialcollegelondon.box.com/s/abcq9j9kizbsu815k6qx0220p2vs5fhh

Goodman D, González-Rivas JP, Jaacks LM, Duran M, Marulanda MI, Ugel E, Mattei J, Chavarro JE, Nieto-Martinez R. Dietary intake and cardiometabolic risk factors among Venezuelan adults: a nationally representative analysis. BMC Nutr. 2020 Oct 16;6:61. doi: 10.1186/s40795-020-00362-7. PMID: 33088579; PMCID: PMC7566137. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33088579/

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Durand, Eric Dávila, Ramez Constantino, Alberto García, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, María Inés Marulanda. Cardiometabolic risk factors in Venezuela. The EVESCAM study: a national cross-sectional survey in adults. Prim. Care Diab. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2020.07.006

Diana De Oliveira-Gomes, Juan P. González-Rivas, Katherine A. Rosales-Pereira, Leidy De Jesus-Henrriques, Rocío Iglesias-Fortes, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Erik L Dávila Alcalá, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Prevalence of Obesity in the Capital Region ff Venezuela. Results of the EVESCAM. Rev Venez Endocrinol Metab 2020;18(2): 57-63. https://www.svemonline.org/revista-venezolana-de-endocrinologia-y-metabolismo-volumen-18-numero-1-ano-2020-2/

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol. Nature. 2020. 020;582(7810):73-77. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2338-1

Sivitz WI, Phillips LS, Wexler DJ, et al. GRADE Research Group (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Optimization of Metformin in the GRADE Cohort: Effect on Glycemia and Body Weight [published online ahead of print, 2020 Mar 5]. Diabetes Care. 2020; dc191769. doi:10.2337/dc19-1769. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32139384/?from_term=nieto-martinez+r&from_sort=date&from_pos=1

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) – Americas Working Group. (Nieto-Martínez, R.; working group collaborator). Trends in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the Americas Between 1980 and 2014: A Pooled Analysis of Population-Based Surveys. The Lancet Global Health, 8(1), e123-e133, January 1, 2020. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30484-X/fulltext

Jiwani S, Carrillo-Larco R, Hernández-Vásquez A, Barrientos-Gutiérrez T, Basto-Abreu A, Gutierrez A, Irazola V, Nieto-Martínez R, Nunes B, Parra D, and Miranda, J. The shift of obesity burden by socioeconomic status between 1998 and 2017 in Latin America and the Caribbean: a cross-sectional series study. The Lancet Global Health, 7(12): PE1644- E1654, December 2019. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30421-8/fulltext

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, María Inés Marulanda, Maritza Durán, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Pablo Aschner. External Validation of the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score in Venezuela Using a National Sample. The EVESCAM. Primary Care Diabetes. 2019;13(6):574–582. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2019.04.006 https://www.primary-care-diabetes.com/article/S1751-9918(18)30334-6/fulltext

González-Rivas JP, Mechanick JI, Ugel E, Marulanda MI, Duran M, Nieto-Martínez R. Cardiovascular Health in a National Sample of Venezuelan Subjects Assessed According to the AHA Score: The EVESCAM. Glob Heart. 2019 Sep;14(3):285-293. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2019.06.006. Epub 2019 Jul 18. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31327753

Behringer-Massera S, Browne T, George G, et al; GRADE Research Group (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Facilitators and barriers to successful recruitment into a large comparative effectiveness trial: a qualitative study. J Comp Eff Res. 2019;8(10):815‐826. doi:10.2217/cer-2019-0010. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31368793/?from_term=Nieto-Martinez+R&from_sort=date&from_pos=6

Larkin ME, Nathan DM, Bebu, Krause-Steinrauf H, Herman WH, Higgins JM, Tiktin M, Cohen RM, Lund C, Bergenstal RM, Johnson ML, Arends V; GRADE Research Group (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Rationale and Design for a GRADE Substudy of Continuous Glucose Monitoring. Diabetes Technol Ther 2019 Sep 4. doi:10.1089/dia.2019.0202 [Epub ahead of print]. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31393176

Wexler DJ, Krause-Steinrauf H, Crandall JP, Florez HJ, Hox SH, Kuhn A, Sood A, Underkofler C, Aroda VR; GRADE Research Group (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Baseline Characteristics of Randomized Participants in the Glycemia Reduction Approaches in Diabetes: A Comparative Effectiveness Study (GRADE). Diabetes Care. 2019 Aug 7. pii: dc190901. doi: 10.2337/dc19-0901. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31391203

Juan P. González-Rivas; Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Maritza Duran, María Inés Marulanda, Eunice Ugel, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Re-Classifying Hypertension in the Venezuelan EVESCAM Database using 2017 AHA/ACC Criteria: High Prevalence, Poor Control, and Urgent Call for Action. Annals of Global Health (2019) May 28;85(1). Doii: 10.5334/aogh.2346. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31148436

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults. Nature (2019) 569; 7755:260-64. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1171-x

Juan P. González-Rivas, William Polonsky, María M. Infante-García, Maritza Duran, Eunice Ugel, María I Marulanda, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Diabetes and Depression Were Not Associated In Venezuelan Adults: The EVESCAM Study, a National Cross-Sectional Sample. Primary Care Diabetes (2019). epub ahead of print. https://www.primary-care-diabetes.com/article/S1751-9918(18)30327-9/fulltext

Gilberto Figarella, Sheilly Pina, Luis Torres, Juan P. Gonzalez-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Maria Ines Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martinez. Low prevalence of obesity and high prevalence of low weight in adults of the Guayana Region of Venezuela; Preliminary results of the EVESCAM study. Rev Venez Endocrinol Metab 2019; 17 (1):85-93. https://www.svemonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/RVEM-Vol-17-No-1-A%C3%B1o-2019.pdf

Rocio Iglesias-Fortes, Leidy de Jesus Enriquez, Diana de Oliveira-Gomez, Katherine A. Rosales-Pereira, Erick L. Davila, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Juan P. Gonzalez-Rivas, Maria Ines Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martinez. Prevalence of alcohol consumption in adults of the Capital region, Venezuela: Preliminary results of the EVESCAM study. Rev Venez Endocrinol Metab 2019; 17 (3): 102-110. https://www.svemonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/revista2020.pdf

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, María M. Infante-García. Implementing Medical Nutritional Therapy Through Dietary Patterns in Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes. Curr Geri Rep (2018) 7: 125. https://rdcu.be/2vRn

María M. Infante-García, Juan P. González-Rivas, José Valencia Portillo, Mariflor Vera, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Durán, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Low prevalence of obesity and high prevalence of underweight in the population of the Andes Region of Venezuela. Preliminary results of the EVESCAM Study Invest Clin 2018; 59 (3): 242 – 249 http://producCIOncientificaluz.org/index.php/investigaCIOn/article/download/24013/24482

Imperia Brajkovich, Juan P. González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Alejandro Risquez, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and in Three Regions from Venezuela: The VEMSOLS Study Results. International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 2018; 31 (6):603-609. Epub Aug 27, 2018. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S2359-56472018005009104&script=sci_arttext

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Past, present and future EVESCAM study group. Med Interna (Caracas) 2018; 34 (1): 32 – 35 http://svmi.web.ve/wh/revista/V34_N1.pdf

Victoria Stepenka, Yoleida Rivas, Yolanda Zapata, Luis Añez, Juan Casal, Maribel Sindas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Durán Castillo, Juan Pablo González Rivas, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, María Inés Marulanda. Prevalence of Prediabetes and Diabetes Mellitus in the Zulia region, Venezuela: Preliminary Results of the EVESCAM Study. Med Interna (Caracas) 2018; 34 (3): 179-183 http://www.svmi.web.ve/ojs/index.php/medint/article/view/483/473

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018, 1–21. http://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyy016/4944405

Juan P. González-Rivas, María M. Infante-García, Arantza C. Ustáriz De Laurentiis, Mariflor Vera, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Diabetes in the Andes of Venezuela Is there greater or lesser prevalence in the region? Preliminary results of the EVESCAM Study. Rev Venez Endocrinol Metab 2018;16(1):12-20 http://www.saber.ula.ve/bitstream/handle/123456789/44597/original1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Erik L. Dávila Alcalá, Rocío Iglesias Fortes, Fátima K. Piñero Gutiérrez, Katherine A. Rosales Pereira, Leidy C. de Jesús Henriques, Diana C. De Oliveira Gomes, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Juan P. González-Rivas, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Prevalence of dyslipidemias in the Capital Region. Preliminary Results of the EVESCAM Study. Med Interna (Caracas) 2018; 34 (2): 123 – 127. http://www.svmi.web.ve/wh/revista/V34_N2.pdf

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, Hermes Florez, Eunice Ugel, Imperia Brajkovich, Alejandro Risquez, W. Timothy Garvey, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Application of the AACE/ACE Advanced Framework for the Diagnosis of Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease Staging in a General Population from Three Regions of Venezuela: The VEMSOLS Study Results. Endocrine Practice 2018;24(1):1-8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29106817/?from_term=NietoMartinez+R&from_sort=date&from_page=2&from_pos=8

Juan P. González-Rivas, María M. Infante-García, Arantza C. Ustáriz De Laurentiis, Mariflor Vera, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Diabetes en los Andes de Venezuela ¿Hay mayor o Menor prevalencia en la región? Resultados preliminares del Estudio EVESCAM. Rev Ven End Met 2018,16(1):12-20. https://www.svemonline.org/revista-venezolana-de-endocrinologia-y-metabolismo-volumen-16-numero-1-febrero-2018-2/

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, María Inés Marulanda. Impact in the change of hypertension prevalence in Venezuela applying the cutoff values of the new 2017 ACC/AHA guidelines. Avances Cardiol 2017;37(4):191-193 http://sociedadvenezolanadecardiologia.org/site/images/Vol_37_4/PDF/01.-Nieto-R-191-193.pdf

Nieto-Martínez, Mechanick JI, Brajkovich I, Ugel E, Risquez A, Florez H, González-Rivas JP. Prevalence of Diabetes in Three Regions from Venezuela: The VEMSOLS Study Results. Prim Care Diabetes 2017, Dec 14. pii: S1751-9918(17)30186-9. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2017.11.005. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29249672

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, José R. Medina-Inojosa, Hermes Florez. Are Eating Disorders Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Curr Diab Rep 2017 Nov 22;17(12):138. doi: 10.1007/s11892-017-0949-1. Review. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29168047

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, Pablo Aschner, Noël C. Barengo, and Jeffrey I. Mechanick. Transculturalizing diabetes prevention in Latin America. Ann Glob Health. 2017 May – Aug;83(3-4):432-443. doi: 1016/j.aogh.2017.07.001. Epub 2017 Aug 24. Review. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29221516

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, María Inés Marulanda, Juan P González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Mario Patiño, Luis López Gómez, Pedro Monsalve, Héctor Marcano, Noël Barengo, Pablo Aschner and Hermes Florez. Cardio-metabolic Health Venezuelan Study (EVESCAM) National Survey: Design and implementation. Invest Clin 2017; 58(1): 56 – 69.http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3729/372950032006.pdf

Patricio López-Jaramillo, Ramfis E. Nieto-Martínez, Gestne Aure-Fariñez, Carlos O. Mendivil, Rodolfo A. Lahsen, Ruy L. Silva-Filho, Luiz A. Andreotti, Mónica E. Manrique, Miguel A. Pasquel-Andrade, Ignacio Rangel, Maricela Vidrio, Rutila Castañeda, Manuela Restrepo, and Miguel E. Pinto. Identification and management of Prediabetes: Latin American Perspective. Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2017; 41:1-7. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2017.172 http://iris.paho.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/34531/v41e1722017.pdf?sequence=1

Marcos M. Lima-Martínez, Carlos Arrau, Saimar Jerez, Mariela Paoli, Juan P. González-Rivas, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Gianluca Iacobellis. Relationship Between the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC), Vitamin D Levels, And Insulin Resistance in Obese Subjects. Primary Care of Diabetes 2017; 11 (2017) 94–100. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2016.11.001. Epub 2016 Nov 30. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27914905

Juan P. González-Rivas, Franmar Castellanos Barrios, Mariflor Vera, Eunice Ugel, Paola Calles Rubio, Carmen Y. Cecilio-Rivero, Maritza Durán, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Prevalence of hypertension in adults of the Andes region of Venezuela. Are we better or worse than before? The EVESCAM study. Avances Cardiol 2017;37(3):1-8 http://avancescardiologicos.org/site/images/Vol_37_3/pdf/02.%20Gonza%CC%81lez%20J%20(113-120).pdf

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 2017 Dec 16;390(10113):2627-2642. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3. Epub 2017 Oct 10 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735219/pdf/main.pdf

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants. NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. Lancet 2017 Jan 7;389(10064):37-55. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31919-5. Epub 2016 Nov 16 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5220163/pdf/main.pdf

Juan P. González-Rivas, Raúl García Santiago, Jeffrey Mechanick, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Chimó, a Smokeless Tobacco Preparation, is Associated with a Lower Frequency of Hypertension in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes. International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences 2017; 30(5):373-379. http://www.onlineijcs.org/sumario/30/pdf/en_v30n5a02.pdf

Juan P. González-Rivas; Arantza C. Ustáriz de Laurentiis; Mariflor Vera; Eunice Ugel; Asdrúbal A. Vilera Vivas; Estherbany G. Figueroa Alfaro; Jesús A. Silva Rivera; José U. Valencia Portillo; Maritza Durán; María Inés Marulanda; Ramfis Nieto-Martínez. Coffee and Hypertension in the Andean Population of Venezuela. The EVESCAM Study Preliminary Results. Med Interna (Caracas) 2017; 33 (2): 104 – 109. http://www.svmi.web.ve/ojs/index.php/medint/article/view/425/418

Juan P. González-Rivas, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Raúl García Santiago, Eunice Ugel, Jeffrey Mechanick Chimo, a smokeless tobacco preparation, is associated with a higher frequency of type 2 diabetes. Invest Clin 2017; 58(3): 250-258 http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/3729/372952815004.pdf

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, Hermes Florez and Jeffrey I. Mechanick. Transcultural Endocrinology: Adapting Type-2 Diabetes Guidelines on a Global Scale. Endocrinol Metab Clin N Am 2016; 45:967–1009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27823615

González-Rivas J, García Santiago R, Ugel E, Brajkovich I, Risquez A, Nieto-Martínez R. High Prevalence and Poor Control of Hypertension in Five Populations from Venezuela: The VEMSOLS Study. Invest Clin. 2016;57(4):237 – 45. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29938985

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). A century of trends in adult human height. Elife 2016; Jul 26;5. pii: e13410. doi: 10.7554/eLife.13410. http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e13410

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants. Lancet 2016; 387: 1513–30 https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2816%2900618-8

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants. Lancet 2016; 387: 1377–96. https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2816%2930054-X

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). (Nieto-Martínez, R.; study group member). Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331288 participants. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2015; Aug;3(8):624-37. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587%2815%2900129-1/fulltext

Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, María Inés Marulanda, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Juan Pablo González, Mario Patiño, Luis López Gómez, Pedro Monsalve, Héctor Marcano, Nöel Barengo, Pablo Aschner y Hermes Flórez. Venezuelan Cardiometabolic Health Study (EVESCAM): General description and sampling. Med Interna (Caracas) 2015,31(2):102-111. http://ve.scielo.org/pdf/ic/v58n1/art06.pdf

Nieto-Martínez R, González JP, Lima-Martínez M, Stepenka V, Rísquez A, Mechanick JI. Diabetes Care in Venezuela. Annals of Global Health. 2015;81(6):776-91. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27108145

Nieto- Martínez, R.; Hamdy, O.; Marante, D.; Marulanda, M.I.; Marchetti, A.; Hegazi, R.A.; Mechanick, J. I. Transcultural Nutrition Diabetes Algorithm (tDNA): Venezuelan Application. Nutrients 2014, 6, 1333-1363. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24699193