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Fructose overconsumption causes dyslipidemia and ectopic lipid deposition in healthy subjects with and without a family history of type 2 diabetesKim Anne Le
Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1760-5. 2009..Both nutritional and genetic factors are involved in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance...
End-digits preference for self-reported height depends on languageMatthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 8:342. 2008..End-digit preference can distort estimates of prevalence and other statistical parameters. This study examines end-digit preference for self-reported height and how it relates with sex, age, educational level or cultural affiliation...- Establishing a follow-up of the Swiss MONICA participants (1984-1993): record linkage with census and mortality dataMatthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:562. 2010..Many countries feature the defect of lacking general population cohorts because they have missed to provide for follow-up information of health surveys... - Dose-dependent positive association between cigarette smoking, abdominal obesity and body fat: cross-sectional data from a population-based surveyCarole Clair
Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 11:23. 2011..To our knowledge, no population-based studies have assessed the relationship between smoking and body fat composition. We assessed the association between cigarette smoking and waist circumference, body fat, and body-mass index... - Educational inequalities in mortality and associated risk factors: German--versus French-speaking SwitzerlandDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:567. 2010..Our aim was to analyze educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the two Swiss regions and to compare this with inequalities in behavioural risk factors and self-rated health... - Obesity in Switzerland: do estimates depend on how body mass index has been assessed?David Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 138:204-10. 2008..This approach may lead to misclassification of obese subjects and misinterpretation of obesity prevalence and trends. In order to explore this potential bias, we compared studies with measured and self-reported data... - Underestimation of obesity prevalence in Switzerland: comparison of two methods for correction of self-reportD Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 139:752-6. 2009..In order to find ways to adjust for this misestimation, we tested two correction methods for self-report by comparing the derived obesity prevalence rates with those based on measured height and weight... - 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... - 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... - Excess weight in the canton of Zurich, 1992-2009: harbinger of a trend reversal in Switzerland?D Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 140:w13090. 2010..However, within the country there may be regional variations. We investigated whether the trends in excess weight prevalence in the largest urban region differed from that in the rest of German Switzerland (GS)... - Prevalence of obesity in Switzerland 1992-2007: the impact of education, income and occupational classD Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Obes Rev 12:151-66. 2011..Programmes and policies aimed at preventing excess weight should target individuals with low education early in life... 
Association of cigarettes smoked daily with obesity in a general adult populationArnaud Chiolero
Prevention Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, 17 rue du Bugnon, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1311-8. 2007..We analyzed the cross-sectional association between obesity and smoking habits, taking into account diet, physical activity, and educational level...- Effect of fructose overfeeding and fish oil administration on hepatic de novo lipogenesis and insulin sensitivity in healthy menDavid Faeh
Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Diabetes 54:1907-13. 2005..In conclusion, high-fructose diet induced dyslipidemia and hepatic and adipose tissue insulin resistance. Fish oil reversed dyslipidemia but not insulin resistance... - A 4-wk high-fructose diet alters lipid metabolism without affecting insulin sensitivity or ectopic lipids in healthy humansKim Anne Le
Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Am J Clin Nutr 84:1374-9. 2006..In rodents, fructose leads to insulin resistance and ectopic lipid deposition. In humans, the effects of fructose on insulin sensitivity remain debated, whereas its effect on ectopic lipids has never been investigated... - Increase in the prevalence of obesity in Switzerland 1982-2007: birth cohort analysis puts recent slowdown into perspectiveDavid Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:644-6. 2010..As this example shows, simple comparisons of prevalence rates over time could provide a misleading picture of actual trends. Birth cohort analysis may offer a valuable alternative... - Culture, risk factors and mortality: can Switzerland add missing pieces to the European puzzle?D Faeh
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
J Epidemiol Community Health 63:639-45. 2009.... - 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... - Consequences of smoking for body weight, body fat distribution, and insulin resistanceArnaud Chiolero
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine IUMSP, University of Lausanne, 17 rue du Bugnon, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Am J Clin Nutr 87:801-9. 2008..In the context of the worldwide obesity epidemic and a high prevalence of smoking, the greater risk of (central) obesity and insulin resistance among smokers is a matter of major concern... - High protein intake reduces intrahepatocellular lipid deposition in humansMurielle Bortolotti
Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Am J Clin Nutr 90:1002-10. 2009..High protein intake may facilitate weight loss and improve glucose homeostasis in insulin-resistant patients, but its effects on IHCLs remain unknown... - Lower mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke at higher altitudes in SwitzerlandDavid Faeh
University of Zurich, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Circulation 120:495-501. 2009..In addition, effects of place of birth were rarely considered. Here, we examine mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke in relation to the altitude of the place of residence in 1990 and at birth... - Homocysteine as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease: should we (still) worry about?David Faeh
University Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 136:745-56. 2006..Until new evidence is available, clinicians should focus on better control of the "classical" risk factors for CVD... - 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 - 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...