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Biography

Dr. Jose Mario Franco de Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine of Universidade Federal Fluminense, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also one of the Deputy Editors for Diabetes of The British Medical Journal. He has published a number of papers and served as a reviewer or author&co-author for many prestigious medical journals like “Hypertension”, “The American Journal of Hypertension”, “The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology”, “The British Medical Journal”, and the “New England Journal of Medicine. His main interests are in the clinical research of diabetes and hypertension. He is a Certified Preventive Cardiologist, Nephrologist, and Adult Intensive Care Unit Physician,. Finally, Prof de Oliveira, was a Post-Doctoral Clinical&Research Fellow at the Endocrinology-Hypertension-Diabetes Division of the Brigham&Women,s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, USA, and is one of the two authors of the recent electronic Diabetes e-book published and edited by the British Medical Journal for All Doctors World-Wide.

Research Interest

Diabetes Mellitus. - Macrovascular or Microvascular Diabetic Complications. - Drug options for Diabetic Treatments. - LifeStyle Options for Diabetic Treatments. - Diabetic Nefropathy - Essential Hypertension. - Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in the pathophysiology and treatment of Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Diseases. - Cardiovascular diseases in hypertension. - Chronic Kidney Diseases in Hypertension and Diabetes. - Cardiovascular diseases in Uremia. - Acute Kidney Injury. - Intensive Care Medicine. - Clinical Epidemiology. - 24 hr. Arterial Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM). - Preventive Cardiology. - Dyslipidaemias. - Albuminuria/Microalbuminuria.