Fields of Interest: clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, risk modeling, decision-making, quality of life, marketing surveys, rating indicators, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency, biothermodynamics, medical education

Borislav D Dimitrov was born in 1966 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.

He graduated at the Faculty of Medicine of the Thracian University in Stara Zagora in 1991 as M.D. and was awarded an advanced degree (M.Sc.) from the Faculty of Science and Engineering of The Victoria University of Manchester (England) in 1994. He was certified by the State board in 1998 as specialist in social medicine & health management (S.M.H.M.) after having completed his postgraduate training at the Medical University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria). In 1999, Dr Dimitrov sucessfully completed a 3-year full-time doctoral training in social medicine & health management (with emphasis on epidemiology and medical statistics) at the Department of Social Medicine and Health Management (Medical University of Plovdiv) with the thesis `Assessment of the dynamics in the spread of some malignant neoplasms in Bulgaria: nonlinear prognostic models` and the degree was awarded in 2006 (D.M./Ph.D.). In 1990, and during the following years, he was awarded and held the position of assistant professor in social medicine (public health, epidemiology, health management, medical statistics & medical informatics) as well as of registrar/specialist (Department of Patient Information, Computing & Network Support Services, Medical University Hospital - Plovdiv). He worked in various university, private and public clinical and administration settings as physician, lecturer, tutor, expert and consultant. He is fluent in Bulgarian (native), Russian, French, English and Italian languages.

In 2000 he joined the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (Milano, Italy) as a visiting scientist and has been working as a senior scientist and consultant of clinical epidemiology and applied statistics at the Clinical Research Centre for Rare Diseases `Aldo e Cele Dacco` of the Institute in Ranica (BG). Currently, he lives in Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo, Italy.

Dimitrov BD, Rachkova MI, Atanassova PA
Cyclic patterns of incidence rate for skin malignant melanoma: association with heliogeophysical activity.
J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2008 Jun;9(6):489-95.
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Atanassova PA, Chalakova NT, Dimitrov BD
Major vascular events after transient ischaemic attack and minor ischaemic stroke: post hoc modelling of incidence dynamics.
Cerebrovasc Dis. 2008;25(3):225-33. Epub 2008 Jan 24.
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Atanassova PA, Angelova E, Tzvetanov P, Semerdjieva M, Dimitrov BD
Modelling of increased homocysteine in ischaemic stroke: post-hoc cross-sectional matched case-control analysis in young patients.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2007 Mar;65(1):24-31.
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Gallon L, Perico N, Dimitrov BD, Winoto J, Remuzzi G, Leventhal J, Gaspari F, Kaufman D
Long-term renal allograft function on a tacrolimus-based, pred-free maintenance immunosuppression comparing sirolimus vs. MMF.
Am J Transplant. 2006 Jul;6(7):1617-23.
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Parvanova AI, Trevisan R, Iliev IP, Dimitrov BD, Vedovato M, Tiengo A, Remuzzi G, Ruggenenti P
Insulin resistance and microalbuminuria: a cross-sectional, case-control study of 158 patients with type 2 diabetes and different degrees of urinary albumin excretion.
Diabetes. 2006 May;55(5):1456-62.
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Remuzzi G, Cravedi P, Perna A, Dimitrov BD, Turturro M, Locatelli G, Rigotti P, Baldan N, Beatini M, Valente U, Scalamogna M, Ruggenenti P
Long-term outcome of renal transplantation from older donors.
N Engl J Med. 2006 Jan 26;354(4):343-52.
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Remuzzi G, Ruggenenti P, Perna A, Dimitrov BD, de Zeeuw D, Hille DA, Shahinfar S, Carides GW, Brenner BM
Continuum of renoprotection with losartan at all stages of type 2 diabetic nephropathy: a post hoc analysis of the RENAAL trial results.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2004 Dec;15(12):3117-25.
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Parvanova A, Iliev I, Filipponi M, Dimitrov BD, Vedovato M, Tiengo A, Trevisan R, Remuzzi G, Ruggenenti P
Insulin resistance and proliferative retinopathy: a cross-sectional, case-control study in 115 patients with type 2 diabetes.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Sep;89(9):4371-6.
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Remuzzi G, Lesti M, Gotti E, Ganeva M, Dimitrov BD, Ene-Iordache B, Gherardi G, Donati D, Salvadori M, Sandrini S, Valente U, Segoloni G, Mourad G, Federico S, Rigotti P, Sparacino V, Bosmans JL, Perico N, Ruggenenti P
Mycophenolate mofetil versus azathioprine for prevention of acute rejection in renal transplantation (MYSS): a randomised trial.
Lancet. 2004 Aug 7-13;364(9433):503-12.
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Perico N, Ruggenenti P, Gotti E, Gaspari F, Cattaneo D, Valente U, Salvadori M, Segoloni G, Donati D, Sandrini S, Ganeva M, Dimitrov BD, Remuzzi G
In renal transplantation blood cyclosporine levels soon after surgery act as a major determinant of rejection: insights from the MY.S.S. trial.
Kidney Int. 2004 Mar;65(3):1084-90.
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Dimitrov BD, Ruggenenti P, Stefanov R, Perna A, Remuzzi G
Chronic nephropathies: individual risk for progression to end-stage renal failure as predicted by an integrated probabilistic model.
Nephron Clin Pract. 2003;95(2):c47-59.
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Dimitrov BD, Perna A, Ruggenenti P, Remuzzi G
Predicting end-stage renal disease: Bayesian perspective of information transfer in the clinical decision-making process at the individual level.
Kidney Int. 2003 May;63(5):1924-33.
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Parvanova A, Iliev I, Dimitrov BD, Arnoldi F, Zaletel J, Remuzzi G, Ruggenenti P
Hyperhomocysteinemia and increased risk of retinopathy: a cross-sectional, case-control study in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes Care. 2002 Dec;25(12):2361.


Plata R, Cornejo A, Arratia C, Anabaya A, Perna A, Dimitrov BD, Remuzzi G, Ruggenenti P
Angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibition therapy in altitude polycythaemia: a prospective randomised trial.
Lancet. 2002 Feb 23;359(9307):663-6.
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Dimitrov BD
Uncommon cancers are also important.
Lancet Oncol. 2001 Feb;2(2):71-2.


Stefanov R, Dimitrov BD
Viral-load kinetics in post-transplantation cytomegalovirus infections.
Lancet. 2000 Nov 11;356(9242):1685-6.


Dimitrov BD
Cyclic patterns of incidence variations for stomach cancer in the North-Western region of England.
Croat Med J. 2000 Jun;41(2):197-202.
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Dimitrov BD
Fibre and colorectal cancer.
Lancet. 1996 Oct 5;348(9032):958-9.


Dimitrov BD
The storage of energy as a cause of malignant transformation: a 7-phase model of carcinogenesis.
Med Hypotheses. 1993 Nov;41(5):425-33.
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Dimitrov BD
Heliophysical activity and incidence variations of skin malignant melanoma in Czechoslovakia: a regional study.
Int J Biometeorol. 1993 May;37(2):68-71.
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