1.    Hung SC, Chang YK, Liu JS, Kuo KL, Chen YH, Hsu CC*, Tarng DC*. Metformin use and mortality in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease: national, retrospective, observational, cohort study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 3(8): 605-14, 2015. [IF=44.867]
2.    Hsu TW, Liu JS, Hung SC, Kuo KL, Chang YK, Chen YC, Hsu CC*, Tarng DC*. Renoprotective effect of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockade in patients with predialysis advanced chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and anemia. JAMA Int Med 174(3):347-54, 2014. [IF=44.424]

3.    Tsai MT, Chen YT, Lin CH, Huang TP, Tarng DC* for Taiwan Geriatric Kidney Disease Research Group. U-shaped mortality curve associated with platelet count among older people: a community-based cohort study. Blood 126(13):1633-5, 2015. [IF=25.669]
4.    Kuo KL, Hung SC, Lee TS, Tarng DC*. Iron sucrose accelerates early atherogenesis by increasing superoxide production and upregulating adhesion molecules in CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol 30(9):1518-25, 2014. [IF=14.981]
5.    Chen YH, Kuo KL, Hung SC, Hsu CC, Chen YH, Tarng DC*. Length polymorphism in heme oxygenase-1 and risk of CKD among patients with coronary artery disease. J Am Soc Nephrol 25(11):2669-77, 2014. [IF=14.981]