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Pascal Bovet is affiliated with the University Center for General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté) in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a concentrated focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a range of topics in global and clinical health studies. Notable papers include:

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course, 2021, Science
  • The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 680,102 adults, 2021, The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Elevated Blood Pressure in Childhood or Adolescence and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Adulthood, 2020, Hypertension
  • Improving health outcomes of people with diabetes: target setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact, 2023, The Lancet
  • The state of stroke services across the globe: Report of World Stroke Organization-World Health Organization surveys, 2021, International Journal of Stroke

Pascal Bovet frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Amy Luke, with 30 joint publications
  • Lara R. Dugas, with 29 joint publications
  • Estelle V. Lambert, with 27 joint publications
  • Kweku Bedu-Addo, with 26 joint publications
  • Jacob Plange-Rhule, with 23 joint publications

The scientist publishes regularly in several high-profile venues, with the most frequent being:

  • The Lancet (4 publications)
  • Journal of Hypertension (4 publications)
  • Nature Communications (3 publications)
  • The Lancet Global Health (3 publications)
  • Science (2 publications)

Bovet's research addresses key topics such as obesity, physical activity, and diet; nutritional studies; diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins; birth, development, and health; global public health policies and epidemiology; blood pressure and hypertension studies; and diet and metabolism studies.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • 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

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

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

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • The epidemiological burden of obesity in childhood: a worldwide epidemic requiring urgent action

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Maroje Sorić;Maroje Sorić;Pascal Bovet;J Jaime Miranda

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Prevalence of hyperuricemia and relation of serum uric acid with cardiovascular risk factors in a developing country

    D Conen;V Wietlisbach;P Bovet;C Shamlaye

  • The state of hypertension care in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level data from 1·1 million adults

    Pascal Geldsetzer;Jennifer Manne-Goehler;Maja Emilia Marcus;Cara Ebert;Cara Ebert

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

    Herman Pontzer;Yosuke Yamada;Hiroyuki Sagayama;Philip N. Ainslie

  • Body mass index, abdominal adiposity and blood pressure: consistency of their association across developing and developed countries

    S Doll;F Paccaud;P Bovet;M Burnier

  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  • Obstetric complications and age at onset in schizophrenia: an international collaborative meta-analysis of individual patient data.

    H Verdoux;Geddes;N Takei;S M Lawrie

  • Socioeconomic determinants of dietary patterns in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

    Ana Lucia Mayén;Pedro Marques-Vidal;Fred Paccaud;Pascal Bovet

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Paccaud
Fred Paccaud University of Lausanne
Michel Burnier
Michel Burnier University of Lausanne
Terrence Forrester
Terrence Forrester University of the West Indies
Richard S. Cooper
Richard S. Cooper Loyola University Chicago
Pedro Marques-Vidal
Pedro Marques-Vidal University of Lausanne
Peter Vollenweider
Peter Vollenweider University of Lausanne
Estelle V. Lambert
Estelle V. Lambert University of Cape Town
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Tom Wilsgaard
Tom Wilsgaard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland

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