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 2 (2005), Issue 5 (May)

1. Endocannabinoid activation at hepatic CB1 receptors stimulates fatty acid synthesis and contributes to diet-induced obesity.
   J Clin Invest, 115(5): 1298-305. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sibutramine for olanzapine-associated weight gain.
   Am J Psychiatry, 162(5): 954-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Subcutaneous tissue reapproximation, alone or in combination with drain, in obese women undergoing cesarean delivery.
   Obstet Gynecol, 105(5): 967-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Difference in obesity phenotype between orexin-knockout mice and orexin neuron-deficient mice with same genetic background and environmental conditions.
   Neurosci Lett, 380(3): 239-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Effects of oleoyl-estrone with dexfenfluramine, sibutramine or phentermine on overweight rats.
   Eur J Pharmacol, 513(3): 243-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. The effect of obesity on bioimpedance cardiac index.
   Am J Surg, 189(5): 547-50; discussion 550-1. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Common channel length predicts outcomes of biliopancreatic diversion alone and with the duodenal switch surgery.
   Am J Surg, 189(5): 536-40; discussion 540. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Binge eating and self-esteem predict body image dissatisfaction among obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery.
   Int J Eat Disord, 37(4): 347-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Treatment of overweight in children and adolescents: does dieting increase the risk of eating disorders?
   Int J Eat Disord, 37(4): 285-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Body checking and avoidance in overweight patients with binge eating disorder.
    Int J Eat Disord, 37(4): 342-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Childhood obesity and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a newly described comorbidity in obese hospitalized children.
    Int J Eat Disord, 37(4): 357-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Randomized clinical trial of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty for obesity.
    Br J Surg, 92(5): 557-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Regulation of body mass and management of childhood overweight.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer, 44(7): 589-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Obesity, hypertension and insulin resistance.
    Acta Diabetol, 42: S3-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Expanding the limits of treatment--new strategic initiatives.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S131-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Obesity and the built environment.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S110-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Future and implications of reimbursement for obesity treatment.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S104-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Changing the energy density of the diet as a strategy for weight management.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S98-103. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Dietary supplements in weight reduction.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S80-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Family environment and pediatric overweight: what is a parent to do?
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S70-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Weight maintenance: what's missing?
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S63-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Risk assessment of the overweight and obese patient.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S53-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Pediatric obesity epidemic: treatment options.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S44-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Behavioral interventions for obesity.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S35-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Gene-diet interactions on body weight changes.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S29-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Energetics of obesity and weight control: does diet composition matter?
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S24-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Beyond energy balance: there is more to obesity than kilocalories.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): S17-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. The asthma and obesity epidemics: the role played by the built environment--a public health perspective.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 115(5): 1024-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Obesity, smooth muscle, and airway hyperresponsiveness.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 115(5): 925-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Adipose tissue, adipokines, and inflammation.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 115(5): 911-9; quiz 920. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. The epidemiology of obesity and asthma.
    J Allergy Clin Immunol, 115(5): 897-909; quiz 910. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Effect of activity restriction owing to heart disease on obesity.
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 159(5): 477-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Effect of infant feeding on the risk of obesity across the life course: a quantitative review of published evidence.
    Pediatrics, 115(5): 1367-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Influence of gender, race, and ethnicity on suspected fatty liver in obese adolescents.
    Pediatrics, 115(5): e561-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Obesity at the onset of diabetes in an ethnically diverse population of children: what does it mean for epidemiologists and clinicians?
    Pediatrics, 115(5): e553-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. High initial blood levels of tacrolimus in overweight renal transplant recipients.
    Transplant Proc, 37(3): 1453-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Body mass index (BMI) in newly admitted child and adolescent psychiatric inpatients.
    Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry, 29(4): 511-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Overweight and obesity as risk factors for atrial fibrillation or flutter: the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study.
    Am J Med, 118(5): 489-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Tissue leptin and plasma insulin are associated with lipoprotein lipase activity in severely obese patients.
    J Nutr Biochem, 16(5): 279-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Body checking and avoidance and the core features of eating disorders among obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery.
    Behav Res Ther, 43(5): 629-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Data from the StEP TWO programme showing the effect on blood pressure and different parameters for obesity in overweight and obese primary school children.
    Cardiol Young, 15(3): 291-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Changes in body composition, physical performance and cardiovascular risk factors after a 3-week integrated body weight reduction program and after 1-y follow-up in severely obese men and women.
    Eur J Clin Nutr, 59(5): 685-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Two-year follow-up results for Hip-Hop to Health Jr.: a randomized controlled trial for overweight prevention in preschool minority children.
    J Pediatr, 146(5): 618-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Effect of adiposity and fat distribution on endometrial cancer risk in Shanghai women.
    Am J Epidemiol, 161(10): 939-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. The influence of extreme body weight on clinical outcome of patients with venous thromboembolism: findings from a prospective registry (RIETE).
    J Thromb Haemost, 3(5): 856-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. Type IIIB tibial intercondylar eminence fracture associated with a complex knee dislocation in a grossly obese adult.
    Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc, 13(4): 313-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Fasting ghrelin levels are not elevated in children with hypothalamic obesity.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2691-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Dietary fat content modifies liver fat in overweight nondiabetic subjects.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2804-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Onset of overweight during childhood and adolescence in relation to race and sex.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2648-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Ghrelin suppression in overweight children: a manifestation of insulin resistance?
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2725-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. High plasma leptin is not associated with higher bone mineral density in insulin-resistant premenopausal obese women.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2588-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Increased oxidative stress in prepubertal severely obese children: effect of a dietary restriction-weight loss program.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2653-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Fasting and postprandial hyperghrelinemia in Prader-Willi syndrome is partially explained by hypoinsulinemia, and is not due to peptide YY3-36 deficiency or seen in hypothalamic obesity due to craniopharyngioma.
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(5): 2681-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Synthetic protease inhibitor camostat prevents and reverses dyslipidemia, insulin secretory defects, and histological abnormalities of the pancreas in genetically obese and diabetic rats.
    Metabolism, 54(5): 619-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Analysis of insulin-stimulated insulin receptor activation and glucose transport in cultured skeletal muscle cells from obese subjects.
    Metabolism, 54(5): 598-603. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Sleep-related breathing disorders in obese patients presenting with acute respiratory failure.
    Respir Med, 99(6): 718-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. A structured review of randomized controlled trials of weight loss showed little improvement in health-related quality of life.
    J Clin Epidemiol, 58(6): 568-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Childhood obesity in Taiwan: review of the Taiwanese literature.
    Nurs Health Sci, 7(2): 134-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Comparison of predictive equations for resting metabolic rate in healthy nonobese and obese adults: a systematic review.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 105(5): 775-89. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. Pnlip encoding pancreatic lipase is possible candidate for obesity QTL in the OLETF rat.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 331(4): 1270-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Extracellular matrix remodeling in the heart of the homocysteinemic obese rabbit.
    Am J Hypertens, 18(5): 692-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Obesity, dietary pattern and physical activity among children in a suburb with a high proportion of immigrants.
    J Hum Nutr Diet, 18(3): 187-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Renal cyclooxygenase-2 in obese Zucker (fatty) rats.
    Kidney Int, 67(6): 2151-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Diet-induced obesity impairs mammary development and lactogenesis in murine mammary gland.
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 288(6): E1179-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Early dietary intervention: long-term effects on blood pressure, brain neuropeptide Y, and adiposity markers.
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 288(6): E1236-43. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Effect of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 deficiency on nutritionally-induced obesity in mice.
    Thromb Haemost, 93(5): 816-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Differential effects of topiramate in patients with traumatic brain injury and obesity--a case series.
    Psychopharmacology (Berl), 179(4): 838-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Percent body fat measured by BIA and DEXA in obese, African-American adolescent girls.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 594-602. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Ten-year trends for fatness in Northern Irish adolescents: the Young Hearts Projects--repeat cross-sectional study.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 579-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance in obese children and adolescents referred to a tertiary-care center in Israel.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 571-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. BMI from 3-6 y of age is predicted by TV viewing and physical activity, not diet.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 557-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. Development and modification of child food preferences and eating patterns: behavior genetics strategies.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 549-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Outcome of morbid obesity in the intensive care unit.
    J Intensive Care Med, 20(3): 147-54. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Sex-specific findings from a genome-wide linkage analysis of human fatness in non-Hispanic whites and African Americans: the HyperGEN study.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 639-49. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Choice and availability of takeaway and restaurant food is not related to the prevalence of adult obesity in rural communities in Australia.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 703-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Snacking frequency in relation to energy intake and food choices in obese men and women compared to a reference population.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 711-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Airborne occupational exposure, ABO phenotype, and risk of obesity.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 689-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Social ecological correlates of physical activity in normal weight, overweight, and obese individuals.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 720-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Antipsychotic drug-induced weight gain: development of an animal model.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 607-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Obesity, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, and weight loss.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 675-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Body mass index and weight change from adolescence into adulthood, waist-to-hip ratio and perceived work ability among young adults.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 697-702. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Ethnic differences in the relationships between obesity and glucose-metabolic abnormalities: a cross-sectional population-based study.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 656-67. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. The importance of diagnostic criteria in the association between the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease in obese subjects.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 668-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. Adiposity induced by adenovirus 5 inoculation.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 603-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. Epigallocatechin gallate attenuates diet-induced obesity in mice by decreasing energy absorption and increasing fat oxidation.
    Int J Obes (Lond), 29(6): 615-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. Obesity and metabolic syndrome in circadian Clock mutant mice.
    Science, 308(5724): 1043-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Effect of pramlintide on satiety and food intake in obese subjects and subjects with type 2 diabetes.
    Diabetologia, 48(5): 838-48. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. Hypoadiponectinaemia and high risk of type 2 diabetes are associated with adiponectin-encoding (ACDC) gene promoter variants in morbid obesity: evidence for a role of ACDC in diabesity.
    Diabetologia, 48(5): 892-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Parents' perceptions of health professionals' responses when seeking help for their overweight children.
    Fam Pract, 22(3): 287-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Body mass, depressive symptoms and menopausal status: an examination of the "Jolly Fat" hypothesis.
    Womens Health Issues, 15(3): 145-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. Gender differences in association of plasma adiponectin with obesity reflect resultant insulin resistance in non-diabetic Japanese patients with schizophrenia.
    Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 59(3): 266-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. The impact of obesity on health-related quality-of-life in the general adult US population.
    J Public Health (Oxf), 27(2): 156-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. Early origins of obesity: programming the appetite regulatory system.
    J Physiol, 565: 9-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
94. Experimental models of developmental programming: consequences of exposure to an energy rich diet during development.
    J Physiol, 565: 3-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
95. Does an obese prepregnancy body mass index influence outcome in pregnancies complicated by mild gestational hypertension remote from term?
    Am J Obstet Gynecol, 192(5): 1472-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
96. Obesity as a risk factor for failed trial of labor in patients with previous cesarean delivery.
    Am J Obstet Gynecol, 192(5): 1423-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
97. The associations of physical activity and adiposity with alanine aminotransferase and gamma-glutamyltransferase.
    Am J Epidemiol, 161(11): 1081-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
98. Inherited pericentric inversion (X)(p11.4q11.2) associated with delayed puberty and obesity in two brothers.
    Cytogenet Genome Res, 109(4): 480-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
99. AHSG gene variant is associated with leanness among Swedish men.
    Hum Genet, 117(1): 54-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
100. Obesity and Clomiphene Challenge Test as predictors of outcome of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
     Gynecol Obstet Invest, 59(4): 220-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
101. Reciprocal association between visceral obesity and adiponectin: in healthy premenopausal women.
     Int J Cardiol, 101(3): 385-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
102. Arterial intima-media thickening and endothelial dysfunction in obese Chinese children.
     Eur J Pediatr, 164(6): 337-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
103. Linkage exclusion analysis of two candidate regions on chromosomes 7 and 11: leptin and UCP2/UCP3 are not QTLs for obesity in US Caucasians.
     Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 332(2): 602-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
104. Pre-gestational maternal body mass index predicts an increased risk of congenital malformations in infants of mothers with gestational diabetes.
     Diabet Med, 22(6): 775-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
105. Fucoxanthin from edible seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida, shows antiobesity effect through UCP1 expression in white adipose tissues.
     Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 332(2): 392-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
106. Proopiomelanocortin gene variants are associated with serum leptin and body fat in a normal female population.
     Eur J Hum Genet, 13(6): 772-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
107. Hypothalamic resistin immunoreactivity is reduced by obesity in the mouse: co-localization with alpha-melanostimulating hormone.
     Neuroendocrinology, 81(1): 19-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
108. The baromodulatory effect of gamma knife irradiation of the hypothalamus in the obese Zucker rat.
     Stereotact Funct Neurosurg, 83(1): 6-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
109. Long-term weight gain prevention: a theoretically based Internet approach.
     Prev Med, 41(2): 629-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
110. Biochemical and behavioral indices related to BMI in schoolchildren in urban Turkey.
     Prev Med, 41(2): 614-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
111. Cross-cultural equivalence of feeding beliefs and practices: the psychometric properties of the child feeding questionnaire among Blacks and Hispanics.
     Prev Med, 41(2): 521-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
112. Outpatient weight management in African-Americans: the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Program (HELP) study.
     Prev Med, 41(2): 488-502. [Abstract] [Full-text]
113. Burden of disease associated with overweight and obesity among U.S. military retirees and their dependents, aged 38-64, 2003.
     Prev Med, 41(1): 63-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
114. The "obese insulin-sensitive" adolescent: importance of adiponectin and lipid partitioning.
     J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(6): 3731-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
115. Low-grade inflammation and estimates of insulin resistance during the menstrual cycle in lean and overweight women.
     J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(6): 3230-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
116. Impaired activation of AMP-kinase and fatty acid oxidation by globular adiponectin in cultured human skeletal muscle of obese type 2 diabetics.
     J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(6): 3665-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
117. Early activation of vascular endothelial cells and platelets in obese children.
     J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(6): 3145-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
118. Hyperghrelinemia does not accelerate gastric emptying in Prader-Willi syndrome patients.
     J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 90(6): 3367-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
119. Preventing and treating obesity: pediatricians' self-efficacy, barriers, resources, and advocacy.
     Ambul Pediatr, 5(3): 150-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
120. Overweight, obesity and body fat composition in spanish adolescents. The AVENA Study.
     Ann Nutr Metab, 49(2): 71-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
121. Behavioral interventions and the role of television in the growing epidemic of adolescent obesity--data from the 2001 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey.
     Methods Inf Med, 44(2): 303-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
122. Overexpression of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is associated with lipid dysregulation and insulin resistance in obesity.
     Mol Cell Biol, 25(12): 5146-57. [Abstract] [Full-text]
123. Obesity and the female sex, risk factors for knee osteoarthritis that may be attributable to systemic or local leptin biosynthesis and its cellular effects.
     Med Hypotheses, 65(2): 312-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
124. Changes in gallbladder bile composition and crystal detection time in morbidly obese subjects after bariatric surgery.
     Hepatology, 41(6): 1322-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
125. Long-term effect of biliopancreatic diversion on blood pressure in hypertensive obese patients.
     Am J Hypertens, 18(6): 780-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
126. Pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome X and its links to the perinatal period.
     Nutrition, 21(6): 762-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
127. Inhibitory effect of pine extract on alpha-glucosidase activity and postprandial hyperglycemia.
     Nutrition, 21(6): 756-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
128. Race and diet in the overweight: association with cardiovascular risk in a nationally representative sample.
     Nutrition, 21(6): 718-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
129. Effects of chronic obesity and weight loss on plasma ghrelin and leptin concentrations in dogs.
     Res Vet Sci, 79(2): 169-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
130. Impaired glucose signaling as a cause of obesity and the metabolic syndrome: the glucoadipostatic hypothesis.
     Physiol Behav, 85(1): 3-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
131. The challenges of obesity and skin integrity.
     Nurs Clin North Am, 40(2): 325-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]
132. UCP1 deficiency increases susceptibility to diet-induced obesity with age.
     Aging Cell, 4(3): 147-55. [Abstract] [Full-text]
133. Outcome of pregnancy in a woman with an increased body mass index.
     BJOG, 112(6): 768-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
134. Feeding response to melanocortin agonist predicts preference for and obesity from a high-fat diet.
     Physiol Behav, 85(2): 221-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
135. Fatty acid metabolism as a target for obesity treatment.
     Physiol Behav, 85(1): 25-35. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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