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Gema Frühbeck

Gema Frühbeck

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2025
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Medicine
Spain
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award
  • 2005 - Cuthbertson Award, Nutrition Society, UK
  • 2000 - Silver Medal, Nutrition Society, UK Pamplona

Overview

Gema Frühbeck is affiliated with the University of Navarra in Spain and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the field of medicine. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including physiology, epidemiology, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, as well as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has contributed significantly to diverse topics related to metabolism and related diseases. The main topics of their research include:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nutrients
  • European Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Obesity Facts
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Among their recent papers, notable publications include:

  • "EASL-EASD-EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)" (2024), Journal of Hepatology
  • "Definition and Diagnostic Criteria for Sarcopenic Obesity: ESPEN and EASO Consensus Statement" (2022), Obesity Facts
  • "Contemporary medical, device, and surgical therapies for obesity in adults" (2023), The Lancet
  • "Definition and diagnostic criteria for sarcopenic obesity: ESPEN and EASO consensus statement" (2022), Clinical Nutrition
  • "A new framework for the diagnosis, staging and management of obesity in adults" (2024), Nature Medicine

Gema Frühbeck has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Javier Gómez-Ambrosi
  • Amaia Rodrı́guez
  • Victoria Catalán
  • Sara Becerril
  • Víctor Valentí

The scientist is also an author of book publications, with contributions such as "Endocrinology and Systemic Diseases" published by Springer International Publishing in 2020.

Awards received include the Cuthbertson Award from the Nutrition Society, UK, in 2005, and the Silver Medal from the same society in 2000 awarded in Pamplona.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • EASL-EASD-EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

    Giulio Marchesini;Christopher P. Day;Jean Francois Dufour;Ali Canbay

  • The adipocyte: A model for integration of endocrine and metabolic signaling in energy metabolism regulation

    Gema Frühbeck;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Francisco José Muruzábal;María Angela Burrell

  • Intracellular signalling pathways activated by leptin

    Gema Frühbeck

  • Management of obesity

    George A Bray;Gema Frühbeck;Donna H Ryan;John P H Wilding

  • Body mass index classification misses subjects with increased cardiometabolic risk factors related to elevated adiposity

    J Gómez-Ambrosi;C Silva;J C Galofré;J Escalada

  • Interdisciplinary European Guidelines on Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

    M. Fried;V. Yumuk;J. M. Oppert;N. Scopinaro

  • An EASO Position Statement on Multidisciplinary Obesity Management in Adults

    Volkan Yumuk;Gema Frühbeck;Jean Michel Oppert;Euan Woodward

  • GLP-1 Agonism Stimulates Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Browning Through Hypothalamic AMPK

    Daniel Beiroa;Monica Imbernon;Rosalía Gallego;Ana Senra

  • Adipokine dysregulation and adipose tissue inflammation in human obesity

    Xabier Unamuno;Xabier Unamuno;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Amaia Rodríguez;Amaia Rodríguez;Sara Becerril;Sara Becerril

  • Targeting the Circulating MicroRNA Signature of Obesity

    Francisco José Ortega;Josep María Mercader;Victoria Catalán;Victoria Catalán;José María Moreno-Navarrete

  • Pivotal role of nitric oxide in the control of blood pressure after leptin administration.

    G Frühbeck

  • Insulin- and Leptin-Mediated Control of Aquaglyceroporins in Human Adipocytes and Hepatocytes Is Mediated via the PI3K/Akt/mTOR Signaling Cascade

    Amaia Rodríguez;Victoria Catalán;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Socorro García-Navarro

  • Regulation of adipocyte lipolysis.

    Gema Frühbeck;Leire Méndez-Giménez;José-Antonio Fernández-Formoso;Secundino Fernández

  • Body Adiposity and Type 2 Diabetes: Increased Risk With a High Body Fat Percentage Even Having a Normal BMI

    Javier Gómez-Ambrosi;Camilo Silva;Camilo Silva;Juan C. Galofré;Javier Escalada

  • Leptin: physiology and pathophysiology.

    G. Frühbeck;S. A. Jebb;A. M. Prentice

  • Transcription factor TCF7L2 genetic study in the French population: expression in human beta-cells and adipose tissue and strong association with type 2 diabetes.

    Stéphane Cauchi;David Meyre;Christian Dina;Hélène Choquet

  • Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Two Diseases with a Need for Combined Treatment Strategies - EASO Can Lead the Way.

    Deborah R. Leitner;Gema Frühbeck;Volkan Yumuk;Karin Schindler

  • Circulating omentin concentration increases after weight loss

    José María Moreno-Navarrete;Victoria Catalán;Francisco A Ortega;Javier Gómez-Ambrosi

  • Interdisciplinary European Guidelines on metabolic and bariatric surgery.

    Martin Fried;Volkan Yumuk;Jean-Michel Oppert;Nicola Scopinaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier Gómez-Ambrosi
Javier Gómez-Ambrosi University of Navarra
José Manuel Fernández-Real
José Manuel Fernández-Real University of Girona
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Fernando Fernández-Aranda
Fernando Fernández-Aranda University of Barcelona
Francisco J. Tinahones
Francisco J. Tinahones University of Malaga
Roser Granero
Roser Granero Autonomous University of Barcelona
Rafael de la Torre
Rafael de la Torre Pompeu Fabra University
Rosa M. Baños
Rosa M. Baños University of Valencia
José M. Menchón
José M. Menchón University of Barcelona
Wifredo Ricart
Wifredo Ricart Instituto de Salud Carlos III

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