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Isabelle Lemieux
Researcher at Laval University
Publications - 118
Citations - 17573
Isabelle Lemieux is an academic researcher from Laval University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adipose tissue & Insulin resistance. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 110 publications receiving 16117 citations. Previous affiliations of Isabelle Lemieux include Université de Montréal & D'Youville College.
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Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome
TL;DR: This work has shown that abdominal obesity — the most prevalent manifestation of metabolic syndrome — is a marker of 'dysfunctional adipose tissue', and is of central importance in clinical diagnosis.
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Abdominal Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Contribution to Global Cardiometabolic Risk
Jean-Pierre Després,Isabelle Lemieux,Jean Bergeron,Philippe Pibarot,Patrick Mathieu,Eric Larose,Josep Rodés-Cabau,Olivier F. Bertrand,Paul Poirier +8 more
TL;DR: Although waist circumference is a better marker of abdominal fat accumulation than the body mass index, an elevated waistline alone is not sufficient to diagnose visceral obesity and it is proposed that an elevated fasting triglyceride concentration could represent a simple clinical marker of excess visceral/ectopic fat.
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Overview of epidemiology and contribution of obesity to cardiovascular disease.
TL;DR: The evidence reviewed in this paper suggests that adipose tissue quality/function is as important, if not more so, than its amount in determining the overall health and CV risks of overweight/obesity.
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Hypertriglyceridemic waist: A marker of the atherogenic metabolic triad (hyperinsulinemia; hyperapolipoprotein B; small, dense LDL) in men?
Isabelle Lemieux,Agnès Pascot,Charles Couillard,Benoît Lamarche,André Tchernof,Natalie Alméras,Jean Bergeron,Daniel Gaudet,Gérald Tremblay,Denis Prud'homme,André Nadeau,Jean-Pierre Després +11 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the simultaneous measurement and interpretation of waist circumference and fasting TG could be used as inexpensive screening tools to identify men characterized by the atherogenic metabolic triad and at high risk for CAD.
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Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients
TL;DR: Even in the absence of hypercholesterolaemia, hyperglycaemia, or hypertension, obese patients could be at high risk of coronary heart disease if they have this “hypertriglyceridaemic waist” phenotype.