Jean‐Pierre Després

71.5k citations

395 papers · 39.9k indexed · 20 hit papers · h-index 82

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism top 0.02%
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins 115
Physiology top 0.02%
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism 56
- Diet and metabolism studies 52
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine top 0.05%
- Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity 60
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors 40
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health top 0.02%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet 57
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.2%
Surgery
- Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health 66
Epidemiology
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases 49

Co-authors: Isabelle Lemieux André Tchernof Claude Bouchard Paul Poirier Frank B. Hu Angelo Tremblay Benoı̂t Lamarche George A. Bray
Cited by: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Physiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Partner nations: Canada United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Jean‐Pierre Després

385 papers receiving 38.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Metabolic syndrome
2021 Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
2020 Obesity Phenotypes, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Diseases
2020 Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity
2019 Visceral and ectopic fat, atherosclerosis, and cardiometabolic disease: a position statement
2018 Overview of Epidemiology and Contribution of Obesity and Body Fat Distribution to Cardiovascular Disease: An Update
2018 Cardiovascular and Metabolic Heterogeneity of Obesity
2017 Obesity
2015 Oxidized Phospholipids, Lipoprotein(a), and Progression of Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis
2014 Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness as Major Markers of Cardiovascular Risk: Their Independent and Interwoven Importance to Health Status
2013 Pathophysiology of Human Visceral Obesity: An Update
2013 Overview of Epidemiology and Contribution of Obesity to Cardiovascular Disease
2012 Body Fat Distribution and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
2011 Assessing Adiposity
2010 Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
2010 Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
2007 International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity (IDEA)
2006 Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome
2001 Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients
1996 Hyperinsulinemia as an Independent Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease

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1	Amount and timing of physical activity in relation to sleep quality in the general middle-aged Dutch population: A cross-sectional analysis Charlotte Andriessen,Femke Rutters,Joris Hoeks,Andries Kalsbeek,Raymond Noordam,Frits R. Rosendaal,(unknown),Jean‐Pierre Després,Parminder Raina,David J.T. Campbell,Patrick Schrauwen,Renée de Mutsert,Jeroen H. P. M. van der Velde	2025	1
2	Obesity in familial hypercholesterolaemia: when precision medicine should meet precision population health Jean‐Pierre Després	2025	1
3	Effect of timed exercise interventions on patient-reported outcome measures: A systematic review Mirey Karavetian,Cosette Fakih El Khoury,Femke Rutters,Romy Slebe,Diane Lorenzetti,Denis P. Blondin,André C. Carpentier,Jean‐Pierre Després,Joris Hoeks,Andries Kalsbeek,Renée de Mutsert,Marie Pigeyre,Parminder Raina,Patrick Schrauwen,Mireille J. Serlie,Camilia Thieba,Jeroen van der Velde,David J.T. Campbell	2025	0
4	Adiposity, type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk: Use and abuse of the body mass index Benoît J. Arsenault,André C. Carpentier,Paul Poirier,Jean‐Pierre Després	2024	12
5	Postoperative atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery in severe obesity: the added value of waist circumference Jeanne Roberge,Amélie Paquin,Paul Poirier,Sarah O’Connor,Pierre Voisine,Jean‐Pierre Després,Marie‐Ève Piché	2024	0
6	Metabolic syndromebreakdown → Ian J. Neeland,Soo Lim,André Tchernof,Amalia Gastaldelli,Janani Rangaswami,Chiadi E. Ndumele,Tiffany M. Powell‐Wiley,Jean‐Pierre Després	2024	105
7	The effect of altered sleep timing on glycaemic outcomes: Systematic review of human intervention studies Romy Slebe,Jane J. Splinter,Linda Schoonmade,Denis P. Blondin,David J.T. Campbell,André C. Carpentier,Jean‐Pierre Després,Joris Hoeks,Andries Kalsbeek,Parminder Raina,Patrick Schrauwen,Mireille J. Serlie,Dirk Jan Stenvers,Chun‐Xia Yi,Renée de Mutsert,Joline W. J. Beulens,Femke Rutters	2024	2
8	Brain versus cardiometabolic health: a delicate balance in need of precision lifestyle medicine approaches Jean‐Pierre Després,Natalie Alméras	2024	0
9	Sex‐Specific Impact of Body Weight on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Incidence in Individuals With and Without Ideal Cardiovascular Health Audrey Paulin,Hasanga D. Manikpurage,Jean‐Pierre Després,Sébastien Thériault,Benoît J. Arsenault	2023	2
10	Overweight, Obesity, and CVD Risk: a Focus on Visceral/Ectopic Fat Dominic Chartrand,Adrien Murphy-Després,Natalie Alméras,Isabelle Lemieux,Éric Larose,Jean‐Pierre Després	2022	46
11	Taking a closer look at metabolically healthy obesity Jean‐Pierre Després	2021	14
12	Severe COVID-19 outcomes — the role of physical activity Jean‐Pierre Després	2021	20
13	Visceral Obesity with Excess Ectopic Fat: A Prevalent and High-Risk Condition Requiring Concerted Clinical and Public Health Actions Jean‐Pierre Després	2021	5
14	Collateral Damage of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Nutritional Quality and Physical Activity: Perspective from South Korea Soo Lim,Hyunjung Lim,Jean‐Pierre Després	2020	34
15	Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesitybreakdown → Robert Ross,Ian J. Neeland,Shizuya Yamashita,Iris Shai,Jacob C. Seidell,Paolo Magni,Raúl D. Santos,Benoît J. Arsenault,Ada Cuevas,Frank B. Hu,Bruce A. Griffin,Alberto Zambon,Philip J. Barter,Jean‐Charles Fruchart,Robert H. Eckel,Yūji Matsuzawa,Jean‐Pierre Després	2020	1094
16	Predicting longevity using metabolomics: a novel tool for precision lifestyle medicine? Jean‐Pierre Després	2019	15
17	From syndrome X to cardiometabolic risk: clinical and public health implications Jean‐Pierre Després	2019	11
18	Autoantibodies and immune complexes to oxidation-specific epitopes and progression of aortic stenosis: Results from the ASTRONOMER trial Romain Capoulade,Kwan L. Chan,Patrick Mathieu,Yohan Bossé,Jean G. Dumesnil,James W. Tam,Koon Teo,Xiaohong Yang,Joseph L. Witztum,Benoît J. Arsenault,Jean‐Pierre Després,Philippe Pîbarot,Sotirios Tsimikas	2017	7
19	Comparison of Plaque Sealing With Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents Versus Medical Therapy for the Treatment of Moderate Nonsignificant Saphenous Vein Graft Lesions Josep Rodés‐Cabau,Olivier F. Bertrand,Éric Larose,Jean‐Pierre Déry,Stéphane Rinfret,Rodrigo Bagur,Guy Proulx,Can M. Nguyen,Mélanie Côté,Marie-Claude Landcop,Jean‐Rock Boudreault,Jacques R. Rouleau,Louis Roy,Onil Gleeton,Gérald Barbeau,Bernard Noël,Javier Courtis,Gilles R. Dagenais,Jean‐Pierre Després,Robert DeLarochellière	2009	40
20	Diet, satiety and obesity treatment Angelo Tremblay,Jean G. Dumesnil,Jean‐Pierre Després	2002	6

About Jean‐Pierre Després

Jean‐Pierre Després is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Physiology, having authored 395 papers that have together received 39.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (115 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (66 papers), Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (60 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (57 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (56 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (52 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (49 papers) and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (40 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (11.5k citations), Physiology (14.3k citations) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (11.0k citations). Jean‐Pierre Després has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Isabelle Lemieux, André Tchernof, Claude Bouchard, Paul Poirier, Frank B. Hu, Angelo Tremblay, Benoı̂t Lamarche, George A. Bray, Marie‐Ève Piché and Sital Moorjani.

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