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 3 (2006), Issue 6 (June)

1. Randomised controlled trial of four commercial weight loss programmes in the UK: initial findings from the BBC "diet trials".
   BMJ, 332(7553): 1309-14. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Orthopedic complications of overweight in children and adolescents.
   Pediatrics, 117(6): 2167-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Impact of obesity on cardiac geometry and function in a population of adolescents: the Strong Heart Study.
   J Am Coll Cardiol, 47(11): 2267-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Antagonism of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity in vivo.
   Biochem Pharmacol, 72(1): 42-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Obesity among US urban preschool children: relationships to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
   Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 160(6): 578-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Obesity adversely affects health related quality of life before and after radical retropubic prostatectomy.
   J Urol, 176(1): 257-61; discussion 261-2. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Computational disease gene identification: a concert of methods prioritizes type 2 diabetes and obesity candidate genes.
   Nucleic Acids Res, 34(10): 3067-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Randomized, controlled trial of metformin for obesity and insulin resistance in children and adolescents: improvement in body composition and fasting insulin.
   J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 91(6): 2074-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Plasma metastin levels are negatively correlated with insulin resistance and free androgens in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.
   Fertil Steril, 85(6): 1778-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Mid-body contouring in the post-bariatric surgery patient.
    Plast Reconstr Surg, 117(7): 2200-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Massive panniculectomy after massive weight loss.
    Plast Reconstr Surg, 117(7): 2191-7; discussion 2198-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Retinol-binding protein 4 and insulin resistance in lean, obese, and diabetic subjects.
    N Engl J Med, 354(24): 2552-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. A cardiologist's guide to waist management.
    Heart, 92(7): 865-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. An integrative research review: effective school-based childhood overweight interventions.
    J Spec Pediatr Nurs, 11(3): 166-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Binge eating and exercise behavior after surgery for severe obesity: a structural equation model.
    Int J Eat Disord, 39(5): 369-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. A simple tool to predict exercise capacity of obese patients with ischaemic heart disease.
    Heart, 92(7): 899-904. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Obesity and overweight in relation to disease-specific mortality in men with and without existing coronary heart disease in London: the original Whitehall study.
    Heart, 92(7): 886-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) deficiency creates a vicious circle promoting obesity.
    Endocrinology, 147(7): 3276-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Meta-analysis on the effect of the N363S polymorphism of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (GRL) on human obesity.
    BMC Med Genet, 7: 50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Obesity and infection.
    Lancet Infect Dis, 6(7): 438-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Effects of childhood primary hypertension on carotid intima media thickness: a matched controlled study.
    Hypertension, 48(1): 40-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Telmisartan prevents obesity and increases the expression of uncoupling protein 1 in diet-induced obese mice.
    Hypertension, 48(1): 51-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Cardiovascular function in a rat model of diet-induced obesity.
    Hypertension, 48(1): 65-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Obesity is associated with family history of ESRD in incident dialysis patients.
    Am J Kidney Dis, 48(1): 50-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Molecular diagnosis of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes by methylation-specific melting analysis and methylation-specific multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification.
    Clin Chem, 52(7): 1276-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Brain abnormalities in human obesity: a voxel-based morphometric study.
    Neuroimage, 31(4): 1419-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. The Garden of Eden: acknowledging the impact of race and class in efforts to decrease obesity rates.
    Am J Public Health, 96(7): 1170-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Gastric bypass surgery in the United States, 1998-2002.
    Am J Public Health, 96(7): 1187-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Smoking, obesity, and their co-occurrence in the United States: cross sectional analysis.
    BMJ, 333(7557): 25-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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