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Jean-Pierre Després

Jean-Pierre Després

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Medicine
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
165
Citations
180299
World Ranking
612
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Pierre Després is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and focuses research primarily on medicine with an emphasis on cardiology, endocrinology, and epidemiology. Their scholarly work covers a range of interconnected fields involving cardiovascular and metabolic health.

The scientist has published extensively in areas including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, physiology, and public health. Their research topics often relate to liver disease diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, cardiovascular disease associated with adiposity, lipid metabolism and disorders, and the interplay between diet, metabolism, and disease.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Circulation
  • American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean-Pierre Després are:

  • "Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association" (2023, Circulation)
  • "A Synopsis of the Evidence for the Science and Clinical Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association" (2023, Circulation)
  • "Incorporating fatty liver disease in multidisciplinary care and novel clinical trial designs for patients with metabolic diseases" (2021, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
  • "Management of Obesity in Cardiovascular Practice" (2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • "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)

Jean-Pierre Després has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Paul Poirier
  • Natalie Alméras
  • Dominic Chartrand
  • André Tchernof
  • Éric Larose

Best Publications

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2016 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Emelia J. Benjamin;Alan S. Go;Donna K. Arnett

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2015 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Emelia J. Benjamin;Alan S. Go;Donna K. Arnett

  • Heart disease and stroke statistics-2015 update: A report from the American Heart Association

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Emelia J. Benjamin;Alan S. Go;Donna K. Arnett

  • Executive Summary: Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics--2016 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association.

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Emelia J. Benjamin;Alan S. Go;Donna K. Arnett

  • Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome

    Jean Pierre Després;Isabelle Lemieux

  • ACSM Position Stand: The Recommended Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory and Muscular Fitness, and Flexibility in Healthy Adults

    Michael L. Pollock;Glenn A. Gaesser;Janus D. Butcher;Jean Pierre Després

  • 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

  • Pathophysiology of Human Visceral Obesity: An Update

    André Tchernof;Jean Pierre Després

  • Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: A meta-analysis

    Vasanti S. Malik;Barry M. Popkin;George A. Bray;Jean Pierre Després

  • Hyperinsulinemia as an Independent Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease

    Jean-Pierre Després;Benoît Lamarche;Pascale Mauriège;Bernard Cantin

  • Abdominal Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Contribution to Global Cardiometabolic Risk

    Jean-Pierre Després;Isabelle Lemieux;Jean Bergeron;Philippe Pibarot

  • Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

    Vasanti S. Malik;Barry M. Popkin;George A. Bray;Jean Pierre Després

  • Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley;Paul Poirier;Lora E. Burke;Jean-Pierre Després

  • Importance of Assessing Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Clinical Practice: A Case for Fitness as a Clinical Vital Sign: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

    Robert Ross;Steven N. Blair;Ross Arena;Timothy S. Church

  • Effects of Rimonabant on Metabolic Risk Factors in Overweight Patients with Dyslipidemia

    Jean-Pierre Després;Alain Golay;Lars Sjöström

  • 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

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Small, dense low-density lipoprotein particles as a predictor of the risk of ischemic heart disease in men. Prospective results from the Québec Cardiovascular Study.

    B Lamarche;A Tchernof;S Moorjani;B Cantin

  • Sudden Cardiac Arrest

    Emelia J Benjamin;Michael J Blaha;Stephanie E Chiuve;Mary Cushman

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelo Tremblay
Angelo Tremblay Université Laval
Claude Bouchard
Claude Bouchard Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Benoît Lamarche
Benoît Lamarche Université Laval
Paul Poirier
Paul Poirier Université Laval
Louis Pérusse
Louis Pérusse Université Laval
Philippe Pibarot
Philippe Pibarot Université Laval
Daniel Gaudet
Daniel Gaudet University of Montreal
Arthur S. Leon
Arthur S. Leon University of Minnesota
Gilles R. Dagenais
Gilles R. Dagenais Université Laval
Yohan Bossé
Yohan Bossé Université Laval

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