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 8 (August)

1. The relationship between anthropometry and serum concentrations of alkaline phosphatase isoenzymes, liver-enzymes, albumin, and bilirubin.
   Am J Clin Pathol, 126(3): 437-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. The metabolic syndrome: a brain disease?
   J Neuroendocrinol, 18(9): 715-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Does maternal smoking during pregnancy have a direct effect on future offspring obesity? Evidence from a prospective birth cohort study.
   Am J Epidemiol, 164(4): 317-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Postnatal environment overrides genetic and prenatal factors influencing offspring obesity and insulin resistance.
   Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol, 291(3): R768-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Aldosterone infusion with high-NaCl diet increases blood pressure in obese but not lean Zucker rats.
   Am J Physiol Renal Physiol, 291(3): F597-605. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. G protein-coupled receptor 12 deficiency results in dyslipidemia and obesity in mice.
   Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 348(2): 359-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Keystone meeting summary: 'Adipogenesis, obesity, and inflammation' and 'Diabetes mellitus and the control of cellular energy metabolism, ' January 21-26, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
   Genes Dev, 20(16): 2193-201. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. A meta-analytic review of obesity prevention programs for children and adolescents: the skinny on interventions that work.
   Psychol Bull, 132(5): 667-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Metabolic programming: fetal origins of obesity and metabolic syndrome in the adult.
   Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 291(3): E439-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Growth hormone receptor gene deficiency causes delayed insulin responsiveness in skeletal muscles without affecting compensatory islet cell overgrowth in obese mice.
    Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 291(3): E491-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Association of bodyweight with total mortality and with cardiovascular events in coronary artery disease: a systematic review of cohort studies.
    Lancet, 368(9536): 666-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. The burden of obesity among a national probability sample of veterans.
    J Gen Intern Med, 21(9): 915-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Outcome of a clinical pathway for discharge within 48 hours after laparoscopic gastric bypass.
    Am J Surg, 192(3): 399-402. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Challenges of laparoscopic colectomy in the obese patient: a review.
    Am J Surg, 192(3): 357-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Attacking the obesity epidemic: the potential health benefits of providing nutrition information in restaurants.
    Am J Public Health, 96(9): 1669-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. The answer to diabetes prevention: science, surgery, service delivery, or social policy?
    Am J Public Health, 96(9): 1562-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Gender and the burden of disease attributable to obesity.
    Am J Public Health, 96(9): 1662-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Obesity: new perspectives and pharmacotherapies.
    Cardiol Rev, 14(5): 238-58. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Physiologic, psychologic, and metabolic consequences of bariatric surgery.
    Cardiol Rev, 14(5): 232-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. WATCH IT: a community based programme for obese children and adolescents.
    Arch Dis Child, 91(9): 736-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Impact of obesity on diastolic function in subjects < or = 16 years of age.
    Am J Cardiol, 98(5): 691-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Regulation of hepatic fatty acid elongase and desaturase expression in diabetes and obesity.
    J Lipid Res, 47(9): 2028-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Pharmacological targeting of adipocytes/fat metabolism for treatment of obesity and diabetes.
    Mol Pharmacol, 70(3): 779-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Body-mass index and mortality in Korean men and women.
    N Engl J Med, 355(8): 779-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Overweight, obesity, and mortality in a large prospective cohort of persons 50 to 71 years old.
    N Engl J Med, 355(8): 763-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. CT and clinical features of acute diverticulitis in an urban U.S. population: rising frequency in young, obese adults.
    AJR Am J Roentgenol, 187(3): 689-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Hypercapnia improves tissue oxygenation in morbidly obese surgical patients.
    Anesth Analg, 103(3): 677-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Novel benzimidazole-based MCH R1 antagonists.
    Bioorg Med Chem Lett, 16(19): 4994-5000. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Mild hypothermia protects obese rats from fulminant hepatic necrosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion.
    Surgery, 140(3): 404-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Dairy foods, dietary calcium and obesity: a short review of the evidence.
    Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 16(6): 445-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Distinct impaired regulation of SOCS3 and long and short isoforms of the leptin receptor in visceral and subcutaneous fat of lean and obese women.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 348(4): 1232-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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