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Philippe Amouyel

Philippe Amouyel

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Medicine

D-Index
143
Citations
120786
World Ranking
1467
National Ranking
35

Overview

Philippe Amouyel is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has a research portfolio focused on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Nutritional studies and diet
  • Bioinformatics and genomic networks
  • Acute myocardial infarction research

Amouyel has contributed to numerous publications, frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers featuring Amouyel's authorship include:

  • "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" (2021), published in The Lancet
  • "SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe" (2021), published in European Heart Journal
  • "Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality" (2023), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants" (2020), published in The Lancet

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Amouyel are Stéphanie Debette, Jean-Charles Lambert, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Joshua C. Bis, and Rebecca Sims. These collaborations reflect a network of research activity in genetics, cardiovascular medicine, and neurodegenerative disease.

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

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • 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

  • TREM2 Variants in Alzheimer's Disease

    Rita Guerreiro;Rita Guerreiro;Aleksandra Wojtas;Jose Bras;Minerva Carrasquillo

  • Genome-wide association study indentifies variants at CLU and CR1 associated with Alzheimer’s disease

    J Lambert;S Heath;G Even;D Campion

  • 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

  • α-synuclein locus duplication as a cause of familial Parkinson's disease

    Marie-Christine Chartier-Harlin;Jennifer M. Kachergus;Christophe Roumier;Vincent Mouroux

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • 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

  • Contribution of trends in survival and coronar y-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from 37 WHO MONICA Project populations

    Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe;Kari Kuulasmaa;Markku Mähönen;Hanna Tolonen

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society

    Bengt Winblad;Bengt Winblad;Philippe Amouyel;Sandrine Andrieu;Clive Ballard

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

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

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

  • Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies

    Luc Dauchet;Philippe Amouyel;Serge Hercberg;Jean Dallongeville

  • 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.

  • Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Sudha Seshadri;Annette L. Fitzpatrick;M Arfan Ikram;Anita L. DeStefano

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Ferrières
Jean Ferrières Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Dominique Arveiler
Dominique Arveiler University of Strasbourg
Christophe Tzourio
Christophe Tzourio University of Bordeaux
Pierre Ducimetière
Pierre Ducimetière Université Paris Cité
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
M. Arfan Ikram
M. Arfan Ikram Erasmus University Rotterdam

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