Cardiovascular Health
Medicine ULisboa for Health, Clinical Research and Innovation
Advancing cardiovascular
science to prevent disease,
improve treatment and
enhance quality of life.
AREA COORDINATOR
PROFESSOR FAUSTO PINTO
MD, PHD
Professor of Cardiology
Coordinator of the
Cardiovascular Health
Reasearch Area
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Europe, responsible for over 4 million deaths per year and an annual financial burden of 200 billion euros. In 2015 CVD caused 49% of deaths among women and 40% among men, compared with 19 and 23% for all cancers, the second cause of death in Europe. This underlines the relevance of having strong programs in cardiovascular research and its translation into clinical practice.
Most groups working in this research area of MUHCRI are organized in the Cardiovascular Centre of the University of Lisbon (CCUL).
Further information can be found at https://ccul.pt .
14 Research Groups
1. Angiogenesis
Group Leader: Susana Constantino Rosa Santos, PhD
2. Cardio-Oncology
Group Leader: Manuela Fiúza, MD, PhD
3. Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery - Group Leader: Tiago R. Velho, MD, PhD
4. Cardiovascular Autonomic Function
Group Leader: Isabel Rocha, PharmD, PhD
5. Cardiovascular Exercise & Reahabilitation
Group Leader: Rita Pinto, PhD
6. Cardiovascular Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Group Leader: Daniel Caldeira, MD, PhD
7. Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies
Group Leader: Dulce Brito, MD, PhD
8. Dyslipidemia
Group Leader: Patrício Aguiar, MD, PhD
9. Molecular Medicine in Dyslipidemia and Diabetes
Group Leader: Mafalda Bourbon, PhD
10. Nephrology
Group Leader: Edgar Almeida, MD, PhD
11. Structural and Coronary Heart Disease
Group Leader: Fausto Pinto, MD, PhD
12. Valvular Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension
Group Leader: Ana Almeida, MD, PhD
13. Vascular Biology, Imaging and Surgery
Group Leader: Luís Mendes Pedro, MD, PhD
14. Evidence-Based Healthcare
Group Leader: António Vaz Carneiro, MD, PhD
OTHER AREAS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Lérias-Cambeiro, M; Mugeiro-Silva, R; Rodrigues, A; Dias-Domingues, T; Lança, F; Vaz Carneiro, A. Enhancing Postpartum Haemorrhage Prediction Through the Integration of Classical Logistic Regression and Machine Learning Algorithms. Mathematics 2025. doi.org/10.3390/math1010000
- Costa S, Aguiar JP, Oliveira MD, Gonçalves J, Ribeiro JC, Taborda-Barata L, Farinha H, Escada P, Fernandes S, Soares-de-Almeida L, Paiva-Lopes MJ, Chaves Loureiro C, Lourinho I, Fonseca JA, Drummond M, Marinho RT, Bana E Costa J, Vaz Carneiro A, Bana E Costa CA. Type 2 inflammation: a Portuguese consensus using Web-Delphi and decision conferencing (INFLAT2-PT). Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2025 Jan 7:1-15. doi: 10.1080/1744666X.2024.2448990.
- Maria Cristina FariaTeixeira, Francisco AzevedoCoutinho, Ângelo David Serrano, Rosa María YáñezVico, Francisco Salvado e Silva, António VazCarneiro and ALEJANDRO IglesiasLinares. Orthognathic surgery-related condylar resorption in patients with skeletal class III malocclusion versus class III malocclusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis BMC Oral Health (2025) 25:72 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-024-04921-3
- Joseph, A., Chong, I., Das-Gupta, Z., De Lima, C. B., Dixon, D., Donya, S., Fittro, E., Gerhardt, P., Huang, W., Josephson, B., Li, D., Martin, N., Mukerji, S., Rodriguez, K., Rue, H., Strunk, K., Tarbox, J.,...Willis, S. (2024).Development of a standardized set of outcomes for autism spectrum disorder: The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders,117,102451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2024.102451
- Mulraney, M., De Silva, U., Joseph, A., Da Luz Sousa Fialho, M., Dutia, I., Munro, N., Payne, J. M., Banaschewski, T., De Lima, C. B., Bellgrove, M. A., Chamberlain, S. R., Chan, P., Chong, I., Clink, A., Cortese, S., Daly, E., Faraone, S. V., Gladstone, M., Guastella, A. J.,...Coghill, D. (2024b). International Consensus on Standard Outcome Measures for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. JAMA Network Open, 7(6), e2416760. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.16760
- Carneiro AV. Unwarranted clinical practice variation and resource overutilization in medical care: The example of transfusion practices in elderly hospital patients. Eur J Intern Med. 2023 Sep;115:43-45. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2023.07.020. Epub 2023 Jul 21.PMID: 37482472
- Mansinho A, Fernandes RM, Carneiro AV. Histology-Agnostic Drugs: A Paradigm Shift-A Narrative Review. Adv Ther. 2023 Apr;40(4):1379-1392. doi: 10.1007/s12325-022-02362-4. Pub 2022 Nov 23. PMID: 36418841
- Paulo Jorge Nogueira, Miguel de Araújo Nobre, Cecília Elias, Rodrigo Feteira-Santos, António C-V Martinho, Catarina Camarinha, Leonor Bacelar-Nicolau, Andreia Silva Costa, Cristina Furtado, Liliane Morais, Juan Rachadell, Mário Pereira Pinto, Fausto Pinto, António Vaz Carneiro. Multimorbidity Profile of COVID-19 Deaths in Portugal during 2020. J Clin Med 2022 Mar 29;11(7):1898. doi: 10.3390/jcm11071898
- João Costa, Joana Alarcão, Francisco Araujo, Raquel Ascencão, Daniel Caldeira, Francesca Fiorentino, Victor Gil, Miguel Gouveia, Francisco Lourenço, Alberto Mello e Silva, Filipa Sampaio, António Vaz Carneiro, Margarida Borges. The burden of atherosclerosis in Portugal. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes (2020) doi:10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaa060
- Zack R, Okunade O, Olson E, Salt M, Amodeo C, Anchala R, Berwanger O, Campbell N, Chia YC, Damasceno A, Phuong Do TN, Tamdja Dzudie A, Fiuza M, Mirza F, Nitsch D, Ogedegbe G, Podpalov V, Schiffrin EL, Vaz Carneiro A, Lamptey P. Improving Hypertension Outcome Measurement in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Hypertension. 2019;73(5):990-7.
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