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Caroline M. Apovian is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a notable focus on physiology, pharmacology, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and pharmacy. The scope of their work encompasses 80 publications in medicine and contributions across several specialized subfields.

The main topics covered in their scholarly work include:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Pharmacology and obesity treatment
  • Diabetes treatment and management
  • Obesity and health practices
  • Eating disorders and behaviors
  • Obesity, physical activity, diet
  • Bariatric surgery and outcomes

Caroline M. Apovian has published extensively in journals such as Obesity, Current Obesity Reports, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. Specifically, the distribution of their publications includes 11 in Obesity, 3 in Current Obesity Reports, 2 in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2 in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and 2 in Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • "Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity" (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • "Metformin Enhances Autophagy and Normalizes Mitochondrial Function to Alleviate Aging-Associated Inflammation" (2020, Cell Metabolism)
  • "Competing paradigms of obesity pathogenesis: energy balance versus carbohydrate-insulin models" (2022, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
  • "Nutritional considerations with antiobesity medications" (2024, Obesity)
  • "Understanding the Co-Epidemic of Obesity and COVID-19: Current Evidence, Comparison with Previous Epidemics, Mechanisms, and Preventive and Therapeutic Perspectives" (2021, Current Obesity Reports)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Caroline M. Apovian include:

  • W. Scott Butsch
  • Jamy D. Ard
  • Louis J. Aronne
  • Jaime P. Almandoz
  • Monica Agarwal

Best Publications

  • 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society

    Michael D. Jensen;Donna H. Ryan;Caroline M. Apovian;Jamy D. Ard

  • 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults

    Michael D. Jensen;Donna H. Ryan;Caroline M. Apovian;Jamy D. Ard

  • Obesity in older adults: technical review and position statement of the American Society for Nutrition and NAASO, The Obesity Society.

    Dennis T. Villareal;Caroline M. Apovian;Robert F. Kushner;Samuel Klein

  • Nutrition recommendations and interventions for diabetes: a position statement of the American Diabetes Association.

    John P Bantle;Judith Wylie-Rosett;Ann L Albright;Caroline M Apovian

  • Pharmacological Management of Obesity: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

    Caroline M. Apovian;Louis J. Aronne;Daniel H. Bessesen;Marie E. McDonnell

  • Obesity prevalence from a European perspective: a systematic review

    Anne Berghöfer;Tobias Pischon;Thomas Reinhold;Caroline M Apovian

  • Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity.

    Francesco Rubino;Francesco Rubino;Rebecca M. Puhl;David E. Cummings;Robert H. Eckel

  • Obesity: definition, comorbidities, causes, and burden

    Caroline M Apovian

  • Clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative nutrition, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of patients undergoing bariatric procedures - 2019 update: cosponsored by American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology, The Obesity Society, American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Obesity Medicine Association, and American Society of Anesthesiologists.

    Jeffrey I. Mechanick;Jeffrey I. Mechanick;Caroline Apovian;Stacy Brethauer;W. Timothy Garvey;W. Timothy Garvey

  • A Randomized, Phase 3 Trial of Naltrexone SR/bupropion SR on Weight and Obesity-Related Risk Factors (COR-II)

    Caroline M Apovian;Louis Aronne;Domenica Rubino;Christopher Still

  • B cells promote inflammation in obesity and type 2 diabetes through regulation of T-cell function and an inflammatory cytokine profile

    Jason DeFuria;Anna C. Belkina;Madhumita Jagannathan-Bogdan;Jennifer Snyder-Cappione

  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Medical Guidelines for Clinical Practice for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric surgery patient.

    Jeffrey I. Mechanick;Robert F. Kushner;Harvey J. Sugerman;J. Michael Gonzalez-Campoy

  • Adipose Macrophage Infiltration Is Associated With Insulin Resistance and Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Obese Subjects

    Caroline M. Apovian;Sherman Bigornia;Melanie Mott;Melissa R. Meyers

  • Elevated Proinflammatory Cytokine Production by a Skewed T Cell Compartment Requires Monocytes and Promotes Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes

    Madhumita Jagannathan-Bogdan;Marie E. McDonnell;Hyunjin Shin;Qasim Rehman

  • Metformin Enhances Autophagy and Normalizes Mitochondrial Function to Alleviate Aging-Associated Inflammation

    Leena P. Bharath;Madhur Agrawal;Grace McCambridge;Dequina A. Nicholas

  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGISTS, THE OBESITY SOCIETY, AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METABOLIC & BARIATRIC SURGERY MEDICAL GUIDELINES FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE FOR THE PERIOPERATIVE NUTRITIONAL, METABOLIC, AND NONSURGICAL SUPPORT OF THE BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENT

    Jeffrey I. Mechanick;Robert F. Kushner;Harvey J. Sugerman;J. Michael Gonzalez-Campoy

  • Current pharmacotherapy for obesity.

    Gitanjali Srivastava;Caroline M Apovian

  • Executive summary: Guidelines (2013) for the management of overweight and obesity in adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Obesity Society Published by the Obesity Society.

    Michael D. Jensen;Donna H. Ryan;Karen A. Donato;Caroline M. Apovian

  • Inducible Toll-like Receptor and NF-κB Regulatory Pathway Expression in Human Adipose Tissue

    Olga I. Vitseva;Kahraman Tanriverdi;Tamara T. Tchkonia;James L. Kirkland

  • Macrophage functions in lean and obese adipose tissue.

    Dylan Thomas;Caroline M. Apovian

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Kushner
Robert F. Kushner Northwestern University
Donna H. Ryan
Donna H. Ryan Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Michael F. Holick
Michael F. Holick Boston University
Daniel B. Jones
Daniel B. Jones Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lee M. Kaplan
Lee M. Kaplan Harvard University
Joseph A. Vita
Joseph A. Vita Boston University
David B. Sarwer
David B. Sarwer Temple University
W. Timothy Garvey
W. Timothy Garvey University of Alabama at Birmingham
Barbara E. Corkey
Barbara E. Corkey Boston University

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