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Species | Pascal BovetSummaryAffiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois Country: Switzerland Publications
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Assessing the prevalence of hypertension in populations: are we doing it right?Pascal Bovet
University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
J Hypertens 21:509-17. 2003....- A two-week workshop to promote cardiovascular disease prevention programs in countries with limited resourcesPascal Bovet
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Ethn Dis 13:S31-4. 2003.... - Patients' sibling history was sensitive for hypertension and specific for diabetesMurielle Bochud
University Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
J Clin Epidemiol 57:497-501. 2004..We examined the analytic validity of reported family history of hypertension and diabetes among siblings in the Seychelles... 
Discordant secular trends in elevated blood pressure and obesity in children and adolescents in a rapidly developing countryArnaud Chiolero
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, 17 rue du Bugnon, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Circulation 119:558-65. 2009..We analyzed BP and body mass index secular trends between 1998 and 2006 in children and adolescents of the Seychelles, a rapidly developing island state in the African region...- Distribution of blood pressure, body mass index and smoking habits in the urban population of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and associations with socioeconomic statusPascal Bovet
University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
Int J Epidemiol 31:240-7. 2002..To estimate the distribution of blood pressure (BP), body mass index (BMI), smoking habits and their associations with socioeconomic status (SES) in an urban population in early epidemiological transition... 
Low utilization of health care services following screening for hypertension in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania): a prospective population-based studyPascal Bovet
University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 8:407. 2008..We determined, in a low-income urban population, the proportion of persons who utilized health services after having been diagnosed as hypertensive and advised to seek health care for further hypertension management...- Difference in blood pressure readings with mercury and automated devices: Impact on hypertension prevalence estimates in Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaArnaud Chiolero
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eur J Epidemiol 21:427-33. 2006..This suggests that automated devices used in epidemiological studies should be validated with particular care... - Overweight in Swiss children and associations with children's and parents' characteristicsAurélie M Lasserre
Community Prevention Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, 17 rue du Bugnon, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2912-9. 2007..The objective was to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children in a canton of Switzerland and the association with various characteristics of the parents and the children... - Contribution of modifiable risk factors to social inequalities in type 2 diabetes: prospective Whitehall II cohort studySilvia Stringhini
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland
BMJ 345:e5452. 2012..To assess the contribution of modifiable risk factors to social inequalities in the incidence of type 2 diabetes when these factors are measured at study baseline or repeatedly over follow-up and when long term exposure is accounted for... - Metabolic syndrome according to different definitions in a rapidly developing country of the African regionClara Kelliny
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Cardiovasc Diabetol 7:27. 2008.... - Discordant prevalence of hypertension using two different automated blood pressure measurement devices: a population-based study in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)Arnaud Chiolero
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Blood Press Monit 9:59-64. 2004..We compared blood pressure readings obtained with an automated oscillometric arm-cuff device and with an automated oscillometric wrist-cuff device and then assessed the prevalence of defined blood pressure categories... - Prevalence of hypertension in schoolchildren based on repeated measurements and association with overweightArnaud Chiolero
Community Prevention Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Center, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland
J Hypertens 25:2209-17. 2007..We determined the prevalence of hypertension measured on up to three visits in a Swiss pediatric population and examined the association between hypertension and overweight and selected other factors... - Diabetes and pre-diabetes are associated with cardiovascular risk factors and carotid/femoral intima-media thickness independently of markers of insulin resistance and adiposityDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, University Hospital Center and University of Lausanne, Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Cardiovasc Diabetol 6:32. 2007..Our aim was to examine whether these associations are mediated by body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (waist) or fasting serum insulin (insulin) in a population in the African region... - Gender difference in the response to an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and a diuretic in hypertensive patients of African descentCatherine Falconnet
Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, University Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
J Hypertens 22:1213-20. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Hypertensive patients of African descent responded better to LIS than to HCT. Men responded better to LIS than to HCT and women responded similarly to both drugs... - No further decrease in blood pressure when the interval between readings exceeds one hourArnaud Chiolero
Community Prevention Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Center, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Blood Press Monit 13:85-9. 2008..We examined if increasing intervals between BP readings on one visit would have an impact on the BP estimates... - Relation between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and cardiovascular and renal markers in a middle-income country in the African regionIsabelle Anne Rossi
University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Center CHUV, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Int J Cardiol 156:203-8. 2012..We analyzed the distribution of hs-CRP and the relationship with a broad set of CVRF, renal markers and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), in the Seychelles (African region)... - Has blood pressure increased in children in response to the obesity epidemic?Arnaud Chiolero
Community Prevention Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, 17 rue du Bugnon, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Pediatrics 119:544-53. 2007.... - Microalbuminuria, but not cystatin C, is associated with carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged adultsNicolas Rodondi
Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic, University Outpatient Clinic, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, University of Lausanne, and Kantonsspital, St Gallen, Switzerland
Nephrol Dial Transplant 22:1107-14. 2007..Moreover, no study has compared cystatin C and microalbuminuria as risk factors for CVD outcomes in middle-aged adults, and it is not known whether cystatin C is related to an early stage of atherosclerosis... - Clustering of smoking, alcohol drinking and cannabis use in adolescents in a rapidly developing countryDavid Faeh
University Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 6:169. 2006..This study aims at examining the joint prevalence of these behaviors in adolescents in the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country in the Indian Ocean... - Declining stroke and myocardial infarction mortality between 1989 and 2010 in a country of the african regionSilvia Stringhini
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Route de la Corniche 10, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland
Stroke 43:2283-8. 2012..Seychelles is one of the few countries in the region where all deaths are registered and medically certified. In this study, we examine trends in mortality for stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) between 1989 and 2010... - CYP3A5 and ABCB1 genes and hypertensionMurielle Bochud
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois CHUV et Université de Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, CH 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Pharmacogenomics 10:477-87. 2009..If the role of these genes in blood pressure control is confirmed in other populations and other ethnic groups, these findings would point toward a new pathway for blood pressure control in humans... - Monitoring one-year compliance to antihypertension medication in the SeychellesPascal Bovet
Institut Universitaire de Medecine Sociale et Preventive, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 80:33-9. 2002..To examine the compliance to medication among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients screened from the general population of the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country... - Association between maternal smoking and low birth weight in Switzerland: the EDEN studyArnaud Chiolero
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 135:525-30. 2005..CONCLUSION: Maternal smoking during pregnancy was closely associated with LBW, SGA and preterm birth. A large proportion of these perinatal outcomes could have been prevented in Switzerland if maternal smoking had been avoided... - Is Accurate Perception of Body Image Associated with Appropriate Weight-Control Behavior among Adolescents of the SeychellesHeba Alwan
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
J Obes 2011:817242. 2011..These findings point to forces that can drive the upwards overweight trends... - Association between weight perception and socioeconomic status among adults in the SeychellesHeba Alwan
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, University Hospital Centre and University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:467. 2010..Few studies have examined the association between weight perception and socioeconomic status (SES) in sub-Saharan Africa, and none made this association based on education, occupation and income simultaneously... - Improved smoking cessation in smokers given ultrasound photographs of their own atherosclerotic plaquesPascal Bovet
University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Bugnon 17, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Prev Med 34:215-20. 2002..Since ultrasonography is used increasingly often in clinical practice for cardiovascular risk stratification, this can provide an additional opportunity and means to deter smokers from smoking... - Does prenatal methylmercury exposure from fish consumption affect blood pressure in childhood?Sally W Thurston
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States
Neurotoxicology 28:924-30. 2007..We examined this relationship in the Seychelles Islands to determine if it was present in a society exposed primarily to MeHg from consuming ocean fish... - Laboratory-based versus non-laboratory-based CVD risk analysisPascal Bovet
Lancet 371:2081; author reply 2082-3. 2008 - Association of CYP3A5 genotypes with blood pressure and renal function in African familiesMurielle Bochud
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Hypertens 24:923-9. 2006..We determined whether CYP3A5 polymorphisms are associated with ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) and with glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in African families... - Prevalence of microalbuminuria in the general population of Seychelles and strong association with diabetes and hypertension independent of renal markersMenno T Pruijm
Department of Nephrology, University Hospital of Lausanne CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
J Hypertens 26:871-7. 2008..We assessed the prevalence of MAU in the general population of a middle-income country in the African region and relationships between MAU and selected cardiovascular risk factors... - Marked increase in the prevalence of obesity in children of the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country, between 1998 and 2004Pascal Bovet
Ministry of Health and Social Services, Non Communicable Diseases Section, Victoria, Seychelles
Int J Pediatr Obes 1:120-8. 2006..Such data are important to guide public health policy. We assessed trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from the Seychelles, a middle-income island state in the Indian Ocean... - Review of hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: a comment from the SeychellesPascal Bovet
Hypertension 51:e24. 2008 - Linking Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) data to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): the case for the SeychellesBharathi Viswanathan
Unit for Prevention and Control of Cardiovascular Disease, Ministry of Health and Social Development, Victoria, Republic of Seychelles
Prev Med 47:S33-7. 2008..Hence, GYTS can be a powerful tool for monitoring the situation of tobacco use in adolescents, for highlighting the need for new policy and programs, and for evaluating the impact of current and future programs... - Nighttime blood pressure and nocturnal dipping are associated with daytime urinary sodium excretion in African subjectsLise Bankir
INSERM Unité 872 and Université Paris V René Descartes, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France
Hypertension 51:891-8. 2008..This observation may help us to understand the pathophysiology and clinical consequences of nighttime BP and to develop therapeutic strategies to normalize the dipping profile in hypertensive patients... - Expectation to improve cardiovascular risk factors control in participants to a health promotion programArnaud Chiolero
Ligues de la Santé du Canton de Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
J Gen Intern Med 23:615-8. 2008..We assessed expectations to improve cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVD-RF) in participants to a health promotion program... - Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in a middle-income country and estimated cost of a treatment strategyPascal Bovet
Ministry of Health and Social Services, Victoria, Seychelles, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 6:9. 2006..e. following the so-called "high risk strategy"... - Prevalence, awareness and control of diabetes in the Seychelles and relationship with excess body weightDavid Faeh
University Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 7:163. 2007..We assessed the prevalence, awareness and control of diabetes (DM) in the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country in the African region. We also examined the relationship between body mass index, fasting serum insulin and DM... - Decreasing association between body mass index and blood pressure over timeNadia Danon Hersch
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Epidemiology 18:493-500. 2007..Our purpose was to assess blood pressure (BP) and its relationship with body mass index (BMI) over a 15-year interval in the Seychelles, a rapidly developing country in the African region... - Secular trends in height and weight among children and adolescents of the Seychelles, 1956-2006Pedro Marques-Vidal
Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research Cardiomet, Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 8:166. 2008..We assessed the secular trends in height and weight in children of the Seychelles, a rapidly developing island state in the Indian Ocean (African region)... - Low prevalence of individuals with optimal or borderline levels of cardiovascular risk factors extends to rapidly developing countriesPascal Bovet
Arch Intern Med 167:2262-3. 2007 - Heritability of renal function in hypertensive families of African descent in the Seychelles (Indian Ocean)Murielle Bochud
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Kidney Int 67:61-9. 2005..CONCLUSION: The significant heritability estimates of GFR in our sample of families of African descent confirm the familial aggregation of this trait and justify further analyses aimed at discovering genetic determinants of GFR... - High heritability of ambulatory blood pressure in families of East African descentMurielle Bochud
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Hypertension 45:445-50. 2005..They also demonstrate that antihypertensive treatment and the number of BP measurements have a major influence on the heritability estimates... - Recommendations for prevention, diagnosis and management of hypertension and cardiovascular risk factors in sub-Saharan AfricaDaniel Lemogoum
Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
J Hypertens 21:1993-2000. 2003 - Stroke prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation in sub-saharan AfricaDaniel Lemogoum
ULB Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Am J Prev Med 29:95-101. 2005..A broad partnership of key players, innovative funding mechanisms, and increased national and international commitment for the prevention and control of stroke in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing countries is needed... - Comparison of smoking, drinking, and marijuana use between students present or absent on the day of a school-based surveyPascal Bovet
Unit of Prevention and Control of Cardiovascular Disease, Ministry of Health, PO Box 52, Victoria, Seychelles
J Sch Health 76:133-7. 2006..In conclusion, the prevalence of risk behaviors was higher in absent than present students. Adjusting for data of absent students increased the prevalence estimates in the base population... - [Epidemiology and prevention of obesity in children and adolescents]Pascal Bovet
Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive IUMSP, Bugnon 17, 1005 Lausanne
Rev Med Suisse 4:650-2, 654-6. 2008..To be effective, prevention must include both individual-centered approaches and multisectoral interventions that address the societal roots of the obesity epidemic... - CYP3A5 and ABCB1 genes influence blood pressure and response to treatment, and their effect is modified by saltChin B Eap
Unite de Biochimie et Psychopharmacologie Clinique, Centre des Neurosciences Psychiatriques, Département de Psychiatrie Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Prilly, Switzerland
Hypertension 49:1007-14. 2007.... - Pre-hypertension and hypertension among adolescents of SwitzerlandArnaud Chiolero
J Pediatr 151:e24-5. 2007 - Need to clarify when measurements should be made during the day for home blood pressure monitoringPascal Bovet
J Hypertens 26:154-5. 2008 - Body size and blood pressure: an analysis of Africans and the African diasporaFrancesco P Cappuccio
Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK
Epidemiology 19:38-46. 2008..Blood pressure is directly and causally associated with body mass index (BMI) in populations worldwide. However, the relationship may vary across BMI in populations of African origin... - Worldwide trends in childhood obesityAurélie M Lasserre
Swiss Med Wkly 137:157-8. 2007 - Plasma aldosterone is independently associated with the metabolic syndromeMurielle Bochud
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Hypertension 48:239-45. 2006.... - Carotid plaque screening as a motivational tool for healthy behaviorDavid Nanchen
Am Heart J 155:e37; author reply e39. 2008 - The prediction of insulin resistance with serum triglyceride and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in an East African populationPascal Bovet
Arch Intern Med 166:1236-7. 2006 - The Impact of CAROtid plaque Screening on Smoking (CAROSS) cessation and control of other cardiovascular risk factors: Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trialNicolas Rodondi
Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, Switzerland
Contemp Clin Trials 29:767-73. 2008..Being aware of these test results might also enhance patient motivation to change unhealthy behaviors but the effectiveness of such a screening strategy has been poorly studied...