Recent Contributions

Date	Categories	Title	Author	Format
May 16, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Ectopic Fat Inflammation	Could you comment on the link between visceral fat, liver fat and related metabolic complications?	Marja-Riitta Taskinen, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Department of Medicine, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland	Expert Opinions Video 1:27 min. 6 MB
May 09, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes	What is the contribution of visceral adiposity and ectopic fat as factors driving cardiometabolic risk in patients with type 2 diabetes?	Luc Van Gaal, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diabetology, Metabolism & Clinical Nutrition, Antwerp, Belgium	Expert Opinions Video 2:42 min. 13 MB
May 02, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Physical Activity/Exercise Nutrition	What are the key findings of your 3-year study on the impact of lifestyle modification in patients with visceral obesity?	Jean-Pierre Després, PhD, FAHA, FIAS, Scientific Director, International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk, Professor, Division of Kinesiology, Université Laval, Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 1:43 min. 8 MB
April 26, 2012	Cardiovascular Disease Lipids/Lipoproteins Diabetes	Cardiovascular imaging, metabolic risk factors and atherogenesis: a discussion with Stephen Nicholls	The International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk	Webcasts Video 17:11 min. 81 MB
April 25, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Diabetes Obesity	Are abdominal obesity and type 2 diabetes a concern for health authorities in Brazil?	Walmir Coutinho, MD, Professor of Endocrinology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Expert Opinions Video 0:56 min. 4 MB
April 19, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes	What is the role of the new iPad application developed by the Chair as a new tool for health professionnals?	Peter Libby, MD, Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA	Expert Opinions Video 1:54 min. 9 MB
April 11, 2012	Diabetes Epidemiology Prevention	Could you comment on your views regarding the relative contributions of physical activity and dietary habits in the prevention of type 2 diabetes?	Nicholas J. Wareham, MB, PhD, Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK	Expert Opinions Video 0:53 min. 4 MB
April 04, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Ethnicity Metabolic Syndrome	What are the key findings of the Dallas Heart Study?	Gloria Lena Vega, PhD, The Metabolic Unit, Lipid, and Diabetes Clinics of the Veterans Affairs North Health Care System, Dallas, TX, USA	Expert Opinions Video 1:02 min. 5 MB
March 28, 2012	Diabetes Obesity	Is it possible that the subgroup of individuals with features of the metabolic syndrome may be particularly vulnerable in developing type 2 diabetes when exposed to an overconsumption of sugar-sweetened beverages?	Frank Hu, MD, PhD, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA	Expert Opinions Video 1:31 min. 7 MB
March 21, 2012	Cardiovascular Disease Diabetes Inflammation	Do you think that the morphology of atherosclerotic plaque is distinct in patients with type 2 diabetes versus any other type of patients with cardiovascular disease and why?	Darren McGuire, MD, MHSC, Division of Cardiology and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA	Expert Opinions Video 0:52 min. 4 MB
March 14, 2012	Epidemiology Ethnicity Physical Activity/Exercise	Are there any data on physical activity habits in Mexico?	Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, MD, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubiran (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico	Expert Opinions Video 1:06 min. 5 MB
March 07, 2012	Ethnicity Prevention	Could you discuss and elaborate on the solutions currently considered by various countries to deal with the overconsumption of sugar-sweetened beverages?	Barry Popkin, PhD, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Medicine Department of Economics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA	Expert Opinions Video 2:57 min. 15 MB
February 29, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Diabetes Ethnicity	Are there ethnic differences in the relationship between total adiposity and visceral adiposity and liver fat?	Jean-Pierre Després, PhD, FAHA, Scientific Director, International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk, Professor, Division of Kinesiology, Université Laval, Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 0:51 min. 3 MB
February 22, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Cardiovascular Disease Lipids/Lipoproteins	Is raising HDL cholesterol concentration by pharmacotherapy a relevant target among individuals with abdominal obesity and low HDL cholesterol?	H. Bryan Brewer, Jr., MD, Director, Washington Cardiovascular Associates, Senior Research Consultant, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., USA	Expert Opinions Video 1:03 min. 4 MB
February 15, 2012	Abdominal Obesity/Body Fat Distribution Cardiovascular Disease Metabolic Syndrome	Statin therapy has overwhelming benefits to prevent cardiovascular disease. What about valvular disease?	Philippe Pibarot, DVM, PhD, FAHA, FACC, FASE, Department of Medicine, Université Laval, Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, QC, Canada	Expert Opinions Video 2:05 min. 11 MB