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  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Claude Bouchard is affiliated with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these fields, they have a notable focus on genetics, physiology, molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and complementary and alternative medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include adipose tissue and metabolism, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, genetics and physical performance, muscle metabolism and nutrition, genetic associations and epidemiology, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, and sports performance and training.

Bouchard's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Proteomic profiling platforms head to head: Leveraging genetics and clinical traits to compare aptamer- and antibody-based methods, 2022, Science Advances
  • Genetics of Obesity: What We Have Learned Over Decades of Research, 2021, Obesity
  • The biology of human overfeeding: A systematic review, 2020, Obesity Reviews
  • Human plasma proteomic profiles indicative of cardiorespiratory fitness, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • The HERITAGE Family Study: A Review of the Effects of Exercise Training on Cardiometabolic Health, with Insights into Molecular Transducers, 2022, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Their frequent co-authors include Mark A. Sarzynski, Jeremy Robbins, Jacob L. Barber, Robert E. Gerszten, and Clary B. Clish.

Common venues where their work is published are:

  • Circulation
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Metabolism
  • JAMA Cardiology

In addition to journal publications, Bouchard has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Annual Reviews titled "The Genetics of Obesity" in 2020.

Claude Bouchard was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Physical Activity and Public Health: A Recommendation From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine

    Russell R. Pate;Michael Pratt;Steven N. Blair;William L. Haskell

  • Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

    Robert M Malina;Claude Bouchard;Oded Bar-Or

  • Effects of bariatric surgery on mortality in Swedish obese subjects.

    Lars Sjöström;Kristina Narbro;C. David Sjöström;Kristjan Karason

  • Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults: Executive summary

    F. X. Pi-Sunyer;D. M. Becker;C. Bouchard;R. A. Carleton

  • Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: Best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women

    Marie-Christine Pouliot;Jean-Pierre Després;Simone Lemieux;Sital Moorjani

  • Sitting time and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.

    Peter T. Katzmarzyk;Timothy S. Church;Cora L. Craig;Claude Bouchard

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • The Response to Long-Term Overfeeding in Identical Twins

    Claude Bouchard;Angelo Tremblay;Jean-Pierre Després;André Nadeau

  • Regional distribution of body fat, plasma lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease.

    J P Després;S Moorjani;P J Lupien;A Tremblay

  • Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Cardiovascular Events

    Lars Sjöström;Markku Peltonen;Peter Jacobson;C. David Sjöström

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • The human obesity gene map: the 2005 update.

    Tuomo Rankinen;Aamir Zuberi;Yvon C. Chagnon;S. John Weisnagel

  • Trends over 5 decades in U.S. occupation-related physical activity and their associations with obesity.

    Timothy S. Church;Diana M. Thomas;Catrine Tudor-Locke;Peter T. Katzmarzyk

  • A method to assess energy expenditure in children and adults.

    C Bouchard;A Tremblay;C Leblanc;G Lortie

  • Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health

    Claude Bouchard;Roy Shephard;Peter Brubaker

  • Individual differences in response to regular physical activity.

    Claude Bouchard;Tuomo Rankinen

  • Physical Activity and Health

    Claude Bouchard;Steven N. Blair;William L. Haskell

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Familial aggregation of VO(2max) response to exercise training: results from the HERITAGE Family Study.

    Claude Bouchard;Ping An;Treva Rice;James S. Skinner

  • Physical activity, fitness, and health consensus statement

    Claude Bouchard;Roy J. Shephard;Thomas Stephens

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Pérusse
Louis Pérusse Université Laval
Tuomo Rankinen
Tuomo Rankinen Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Angelo Tremblay
Angelo Tremblay Université Laval
Jean-Pierre Després
Jean-Pierre Després Université Laval
Arthur S. Leon
Arthur S. Leon University of Minnesota
Treva Rice
Treva Rice Washington University in St. Louis
James S. Skinner
James S. Skinner Indiana University
Jack H. Wilmore
Jack H. Wilmore Texas A&M University
Dabeeru C. Rao
Dabeeru C. Rao Washington University in St. Louis
Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Peter T. Katzmarzyk Pennington Biomedical Research Center

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