Jean Vague (1911-2003) : Un exemple de sérendipité au service de la nutrition et de la diabétologie

Jean Vague (1911-2003) was an outstanding medical scientist living in Marseilles, France. He has deeply influenced the researches on obesity during the last decades. He firstly described the two morphotypes associated with obesity (« android/abdominal », and « gynoid/gluteal »). He had the judicious intuition that metabolic and cardiovascular complications of obesity were only linked to the android/abdominal phenotype. Therefore, he must be considered as the founding father of the metabolic syndrome.