Obesity Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Obesity, including details on health, diet, prevention, exercise.

Volume 1 (2004), Issue 2 (October)

1. Emerging aspects of pharmacotherapy for obesity and metabolic syndrome.
   Pharmacol Res, 50(5): 453-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Psychiatric medication-induced obesity: treatment options.
   Obes Rev, 5(4): 233-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Evaluating commercial weight loss programmes: an evolution in outcomes research.
   Obes Rev, 5(4): 217-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Direct effects of sex steroid hormones on adipose tissues and obesity.
   Obes Rev, 5(4): 197-216. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Adipose tissue: new therapeutic targets from molecular and genetic studies--IASO Stock Conference 2003 report.
   Obes Rev, 5(4): 189-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Substrate metabolism, nutrient balance and obesity development in children and adolescents: a target for intervention?
   Obes Rev, 5(4): 183-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Aetiology of obesity: a striving after wind?
   Obes Rev, 5(4): 177-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Aged-obese rats exhibit robust responses to a melanocortin agonist and antagonist despite leptin resistance.
   Neurobiol Aging, 25(10): 1349-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Comparison of coenzyme Q10 plasma levels in obese and normal weight children.
   Clin Chim Acta, 349(1): 121-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Oral glucose tolerance test in children and adolescents: positives and pitfalls.
    J Paediatr Child Health, 40(11): 620-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Obesity-prone rats have preexisting defects in their counterregulatory response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
    Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 287(5): R1110-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. A multilevel analysis of race, community disadvantage, and body mass index among adults in the US.
    Soc Sci Med, 59(12): 2421-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Mutation analysis of NR0B2 among 1545 Danish men identifies a novel c.278G>A (p.G93D) variant with reduced functional activity.
    Hum Mutat, 24(5): 381-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Measuring committed preadipocytes in human adipose tissue from severely obese patients by using adipocyte fatty acid binding protein.
    Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 287(5): R1132-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Enhanced circadian ACTH release in obese premenopausal women: reversal by short-term acipimox treatment.
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 287(5): E848-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Obese and diabetic db/db mice develop marked liver fibrosis in a model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: role of short-form leptin receptors and osteopontin.
    Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol, 287(5): G1035-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Muscle glycogen content in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 287(5): E1002-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Variants in the human beta 1-, beta 2-, and beta 3-adrenergic receptor genes are not associated with morbid obesity in children and adolescents.
    Diabetes Obes Metab, 6(6): 452-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Relationships in women between body mass index and the intravascular metabolism of chylomicron-like emulsions.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1471-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study of the long-term efficacy and safety of topiramate in the treatment of obese subjects.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1399-410. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Associations of fitness and fatness with mortality in Russian and American men in the lipids research clinics study.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1463-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Decrease of plasma apolipoprotein A-IV during weight reduction in obese adolescents on a low fat diet.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1509-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Effects of moderate consumption of white wine on weight loss in overweight and obese subjects.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1420-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of a product containing ephedrine, caffeine, and other ingredients from herbal sources for treatment of overweight and obesity in the absence of lifestyle treatment.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1411-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Midarm computerized tomography fat, muscle and total areas correlation with nutritional assessment data.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1451-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Obesity and impaired fibrinolysis: role of adipose production of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1357-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Overweight and obesity and the burden of disease and disability in elderly men.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1374-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Effectiveness of home-centered care through telemedicine applications for overweight and obese patients: a randomized controlled trial.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1391-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. A comparative controlled study of personality in severe obesity: a 2-y follow-up after intervention.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1485-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. The body mass index is a less-sensitive tool for detecting cases with obesity-associated co-morbidities in short stature subjects.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1443-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Associations between the intake of dairy fat and calcium and abdominal obesity.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1427-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Parental overweight, socioeconomic status and high birth weight are the major determinants of overweight and obesity in 5-7 y-old children: baseline data of the Kiel Obesity Prevention Study (KOPS).
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1494-502. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Weight cycling in treatment-seeking obese persons: data from the QUOVADIS study.
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1456-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. What are the effects of obesity in children on plantar pressure distributions?
    Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 28(11): 1514-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Effects of disordered eating and obesity on weight, craving, and food intake during ad libitum smoking and abstinence.
    Eat Behav, 5(4): 353-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Overweight and obesity in Canadian adolescents and their associations with dietary habits and physical activity patterns.
    J Adolesc Health, 35(5): 360-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. The association between length of residence and obesity among Hispanic immigrants.
    Am J Prev Med, 27(4): 323-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Obesity and pregnancy.
    Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand, 83(11): 1022-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Region-specific leptin resistance within the hypothalamus of diet-induced obese mice.
    Endocrinology, 145(11): 4880-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Acute insulin infusion decreases plasma ghrelin levels in uncomplicated obesity.
    Regul Pept, 122(3): 179-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Abnormalities of the hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid axis in the pro-opiomelanocortin deficient mouse.
    Regul Pept, 122(3): 169-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. A cladistic model of ACE sequence variation with implications for myocardial infarction, Alzheimer disease and obesity.
    Hum Mol Genet, 13(21): 2647-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Combating the obesity epidemic: community pharmacists' counseling on obesity management.
    Ann Pharmacother, 38(11): 1800-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Impact of overweight and underweight on assisted reproduction treatment.
    Hum Reprod, 19(11): 2523-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. Ethnic differences in the prevalence of overweight among young children in Hawaii.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 104(11): 1701-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes: emerging epidemics and their cardiovascular implications.
    Cardiol Clin, 22(4): 485-504. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Hypothalamic neurons of postnatally overfed, overweight rats respond differentially to corticotropin-releasing hormones.
    Neurosci Lett, 371(1): 64-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Behavioral and physiological indices related to BMI in a cohort of primary schoolchildren in Greece.
    Am J Hum Biol, 16(6): 639-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in 7-9-year-old Portuguese children: trends in body mass index from 1970-2002.
    Am J Hum Biol, 16(6): 670-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. The inflammatory syndrome: the role of adipose tissue cytokines in metabolic disorders linked to obesity.
    J Am Soc Nephrol, 15(11): 2792-800. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. The coming epidemic of obesity in elderly Americans.
    J Am Geriatr Soc, 52(11): 1907-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. A de novo mutation affecting human TrkB associated with severe obesity and developmental delay.
    Nat Neurosci, 7(11): 1187-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Distal arthrogryposis and neonatal hypotonia: an unusual presentation of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).
    J Perinatol, 24(11): 733-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Circulating ghrelin is decreased in non-obese and obese women with binge eating disorder as well as in obese non-binge eating women, but not in patients with bulimia nervosa.
    Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30(3): 243-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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