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NATURE JOURNAL RECOGNIZES WORK OF THE HOPITAL LAVAL.

Publication: AsiaPulse News
Publication Date: 15-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The prestigious scientific journal Nature recognizes the scientific work carried out with research centre of the Hopital Laval and at the Universit Laval

QUBEC, Dec. 14 /CNW-AsiaNet/ --

Abdominal obesity as a factor increasing cardiometabolic risk

For almost twenty years, Dr. Jean-Pierre Desprs, Director of Research in Cardiology at the Hpital Laval Research Centre and Scientific Director of the International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk at the Faculty of Medicine of Universit Laval, Qubec City, has conducted with his research team numerous studies on abdominal obesity as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

In this regard, for more than a decade, Dr. Desprs and his team have advocated the use of waist circumference as a vital sign as important as hypertension, smoking and cholesterol to estimate risk of cardiovascular disease.

For instance, their work has led them to propose that the measurement of waist circumference could provide a simple but useful assessment of abdominal obesity which is now considered as a new cardiovascular disease risk factor.

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