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 4 (2007), Issue 3 (March)

1. Utility of the modified ATP III defined metabolic syndrome and severe obesity as predictors of insulin resistance in overweight children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study.
   Cardiovasc Diabetol, 6: 4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Has blood pressure increased in children in response to the obesity epidemic?
   Pediatrics, 119(3): 544-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Twelve-month effectiveness of a parent-led, family-focused weight-management program for prepubertal children: a randomized, controlled trial.
   Pediatrics, 119(3): 517-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Psychiatric and metabolic characteristics of childhood versus adult-onset obesity in patients seeking weight management.
   Eat Behav, 8(2): 266-76. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Psychometric properties of the State and Trait Food Cravings Questionnaires among overweight and obese persons.
   Eat Behav, 8(2): 211-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Taking action to lose weight: toward an understanding of individual differences.
   Eat Behav, 8(2): 185-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Psychological factors associated with ratings of portion size: relevance to the risk profile for obesity.
   Eat Behav, 8(2): 170-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Measurement of children's food intake with digital photography and the effects of second servings upon food intake.
   Eat Behav, 8(2): 148-56. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Complications of antiobesity surgery.
   Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol, 4(3): 138-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Collaborating to combat childhood obesity.
    Health Aff (Millwood), 26(2): 567-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Childhood obesity: what's health care policy got to do with it?
    Health Aff (Millwood), 26(2): 441-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Health plans' role in preventing overweight in children and adolescents.
    Health Aff (Millwood), 26(2): 430-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Proteomic of lipid rafts in the exocrine pancreas from diet-induced obese rats.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 355(3): 813-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness among refugee Somali women living in New Zealand.
    J Immigr Minor Health, 9(3): 191-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The very obese woman and the very old woman: tension-free vaginal tape for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence.
    Int Urogynecol J Pelvic Floor Dysfunct, 18(4): 423-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets for change in weight and related risk factors among overweight premenopausal women: the A TO Z Weight Loss Study: a randomized trial.
    JAMA, 297(9): 969-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Trends in childhood obesity research: a brief analysis of NIH-supported efforts.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 148-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Local venues for change: legal strategies for healthy environments.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 138-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Community interventions: a brief overview and their application to the obesity epidemic.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 131-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Addressing the epidemic of childhood obesity through school-based interventions: what has been done and where do we go from here?
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 113-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Application of law to the childhood obesity epidemic.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 90-112. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Actions necessary to prevent childhood obesity: creating the climate for change.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 78-89. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. What does the epidemic of childhood obesity mean for children with special health care needs?
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 61-77. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Are dietary intakes and eating behaviors related to childhood obesity? A comprehensive review of the evidence.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 35-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Parental influence on eating behavior: conception to adolescence.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 22-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. From tastes great to cool: children's food marketing and the rise of the symbolic.
    J Law Med Ethics, 35(1): 10-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Socioeconomic status, race, and body mass index: the mediating role of physical activity and sedentary behaviors during adolescence.
    J Pediatr Psychol, 32(3): 250-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Increasing trends in incidence of overweight and obesity over 5 decades.
    Am J Med, 120(3): 242-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Prader-Willi and Klinefelter syndrome: a coincidence or not?
    Clin Dysmorphol, 16(2): 127-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Central adiposity in Brazilian schoolchildren aged 7-10 years.
    Br J Nutr, 97(4): 799-805. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Motivational effects of 12-week moderately restrictive diets with or without special attention to the Glycaemic Index of foods.
    Br J Nutr, 97(4): 790-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Wernicke encephalopathy after obesity surgery: a systematic review.
    Neurology, 68(11): 807-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. The role of perilipin in human obesity and insulin resistance.
    Curr Opin Lipidol, 18(2): 152-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Lack of association between body-mass index and white-coat hypertension among referred patients.
    Blood Press Monit, 12(2): 95-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. A systematic review of environmental correlates of obesity-related dietary behaviors in youth.
    Health Educ Res, 22(2): 203-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Medical sequencing at the extremes of human body mass.
    Am J Hum Genet, 80(4): 779-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Obesity did not diminish the efficacy of percutaneous ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma.
    Liver Int, 27(3): 360-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Overweight and obesity among affluent Bengalee schoolgirls of Lake Town, Kolkata, India.
    Matern Child Nutr, 3(2): 141-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Modified scan protocol using multislice CT coronary angiography allows high quality acquisitions in obese patients: a case report.
    Int J Cardiovasc Imaging, 23(2): 265-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. Did the perils of abdominal obesity affect depiction of feminine beauty in the sixteenth to eighteenth century British literature? Exploring the health and beauty link.
    Proc Biol Sci, 274(1611): 891-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Childhood obesity and anesthetic morbidity.
    Paediatr Anaesth, 17(4): 321-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Prospective effect of job strain on general and central obesity in the Whitehall II Study.
    Am J Epidemiol, 165(7): 828-37. [Abstract] [Full-text]
43. Effect of weight reduction in obese patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
    Ann Rheum Dis, 66(4): 433-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
44. Inhibition of dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake produces additive effects on energy balance in lean and obese mice.
    Neuropsychopharmacology, 32(4): 822-34. [Abstract] [Full-text]
45. The obesity-cancer link: lessons learned from a fatless mouse.
    Cancer Res, 67(6): 2391-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
46. A comparison of 399 open and 568 laparoscopic gastric bypasses performed during a 4-year period.
    Surg Endosc, 21(4): 665-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
47. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty: results of a 2-year follow-up study.
    Surg Endosc, 21(4): 659-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
48. Prostate volume modifies the association between obesity and prostate cancer or high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia.
    Cancer Causes Control, 18(4): 375-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
49. Summary statement IV: Obesity and diabetes: opportunities for translation of basic research.
    Vascul Pharmacol, 46(5): 324-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
50. Predictors of early quality-of-life improvement after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery.
    Am J Surg, 193(4): 471-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
51. Reduced quality of life in very overweight Mexican American adolescents.
    J Adolesc Health, 40(4): 366-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
52. Food and park environments: neighborhood-level risks for childhood obesity in east Los Angeles.
    J Adolesc Health, 40(4): 325-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
53. Validity of self-reported anthropometric values used to assess body mass index and estimate obesity in Greek school children.
    J Adolesc Health, 40(4): 305-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
54. Physical activity, body mass index, and mammographic density in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors.
    J Clin Oncol, 25(9): 1061-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
55. Ablation of the cholesterol transporter adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter G1 reduces adipose cell size and protects against diet-induced obesity.
    Endocrinology, 148(4): 1561-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
56. Abdominal multislice CT for obese patients: effect on image quality and radiation dose in a phantom study.
    Acad Radiol, 14(4): 486-94. [Abstract] [Full-text]
57. Quantification of the methylation status of the PWS/AS imprinted region: comparison of two approaches based on bisulfite sequencing and methylation-sensitive MLPA.
    Mol Cell Probes, 21(3): 208-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
58. Complications of neuraxial anesthesia in an extreme morbidly obese patient for Cesarean section.
    Int J Obstet Anesth, 16(2): 139-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
59. Postmortem findings in morbidly obese individuals dying after gastric bypass procedures.
    Hum Pathol, 38(4): 593-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
60. 11-Beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 expression in white adipose tissue is strongly correlated with adiposity.
    J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol, 104(1): 81-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
61. Aerobic exercise and lipids and lipoproteins in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
    Atherosclerosis, 191(2): 447-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
62. Plasma leptin: associations with metabolic, inflammatory and haemostatic risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
    Atherosclerosis, 191(2): 418-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
63. Policy options for responding to the growing challenge from obesity in the United Kingdom.
    Obes Rev, 8: 109-15. [Abstract] [Full-text]
64. Mapping public policy options responding to obesity: the case of Spain.
    Obes Rev, 8: 99-108. [Abstract] [Full-text]
65. Policy options for responding to the growing challenge from obesity (PorGrow) in Poland.
    Obes Rev, 8: 91-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
66. Stakeholder appraisal of policy options for responding to obesity in Italy.
    Obes Rev, 8: 83-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
67. Stakeholder appraisal of policy options for responding to obesity in Hungary.
    Obes Rev, 8: 75-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
68. Stakeholder appraisal of policy options for tackling obesity in Greece.
    Obes Rev, 8: 63-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
69. Stakeholder views on policy options for responding to the growing challenge from obesity in France: findings from the PorGrow project.
    Obes Rev, 8: 53-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
70. Stakeholder appraisal of policy options for responding to obesity in Finland.
    Obes Rev, 8: 47-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
71. Policy options for responding to the growing challenge from obesity: Cyprus national findings.
    Obes Rev, 8: 37-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
72. The PorGrow project: overall cross-national results, comparisons and implications.
    Obes Rev, 8: 29-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
73. Methodology for obtaining stakeholder assessments of obesity policy options in the PorGrow project.
    Obes Rev, 8: 17-27. [Abstract] [Full-text]
74. Context for the PorGrow study: Europe's obesity crisis.
    Obes Rev, 8: 7-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
75. Influence of grandparents on eating behaviors of young children in Chinese three-generation families.
    Appetite, 48(3): 377-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
76. Effect of Caralluma fimbriata extract on appetite, food intake and anthropometry in adult Indian men and women.
    Appetite, 48(3): 338-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
77. Prevalence of obesity and its metabolic correlates among the circumpolar inuit in 3 countries.
    Am J Public Health, 97(4): 691-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
78. Diseases associated with childhood obesity.
    AJR Am J Roentgenol, 188(4): 1118-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
79. Effects of bariatric surgery on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: preliminary findings after 2 years.
    J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 22(4): 510-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
80. Obesity management in liver clinics: translation of research into clinical practice.
    J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 22(4): 504-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
81. Influence of overweight and obesity on upper endoscopic findings.
    J Gastroenterol Hepatol, 22(4): 477-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
82. Recurrent rearrangements in the proximal 15q11-q14 region: a new breakpoint cluster specific to unbalanced translocations.
    Eur J Hum Genet, 15(4): 432-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
83. Serum visfatin in relation to visceral fat, obesity, and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Asian Indians.
    Metabolism, 56(4): 565-70. [Abstract] [Full-text]
84. Regional differences in adipose tissue metabolism in obese men.
    Metabolism, 56(4): 533-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
85. Morbid obesity causes chronic increase of intraabdominal pressure.
    Dig Dis Sci, 52(4): 1038-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
86. A prospective comparison of transperitoneal and retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy in the extremely obese patient.
    BJU Int, 99(4): 871-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
87. Fatty acid turnover, substrate oxidation, and heat production in lean and obese cats during the euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp.
    Domest Anim Endocrinol, 32(4): 329-38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
88. Fitness is a stronger predictor of fasting insulin levels than fatness in overweight male middle-school children.
    J Pediatr, 150(4): 383-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
89. Association between inadequate sleep and insulin resistance in obese children.
    J Pediatr, 150(4): 364-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
90. Cardiac surgery in patients with body mass index of 50 or greater.
    Ann Thorac Surg, 83(4): 1403-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
91. Obesity counseling and guidelines in primary care: a qualitative study.
    Am J Prev Med, 32(4): 334-339. [Abstract] [Full-text]
92. Parent-reported appetite of a child and the child's weight status over a 2-year period in Korean children.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 107(4): 678-80. [Abstract] [Full-text]
93. The Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress (EADES) Questionnaire: development and validation.
    J Am Diet Assoc, 107(4): 619-28. [Abstract] [Full-text]
94. Race/ethnicity, obesity, health related behaviors and the risk of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia: results from the prostate cancer prevention trial.
    J Urol, 177(4): 1395-400; quiz 1591. [Abstract] [Full-text]
95. Laparoscopic remnant gastrectomy: a novel approach to gastrogastric fistula after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity.
    J Am Coll Surg, 204(4): 617-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
96. Revision of the duodenal switch: indications, technique, and outcomes.
    J Am Coll Surg, 204(4): 603-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
97. Comparison of artificial neural networks with logistic regression in prediction of gallbladder disease among obese patients.
    Dig Liver Dis, 39(4): 356-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
98. Overweight, obesity, and incident asthma: a meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies.
    Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 175(7): 661-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
99. Exhaled nitric oxide in severe obesity: effect of weight loss.
    Respir Physiol Neurobiol, 156(3): 370-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
100. Profiles of obesity, weight gain, and quality of life in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri).
     Am J Ophthalmol, 143(4): 635-41. [Abstract] [Full-text]
101. Angiotensin II receptor blockers downsize adipocytes in spontaneously type 2 diabetic rats with visceral fat obesity.
     Am J Hypertens, 20(4): 431-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
102. A prospective study of body mass index and the risk of developing hypertension in men.
     Am J Hypertens, 20(4): 370-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
103. Obesity is associated with higher mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock.
     Int J Cardiol, 117(2): 278-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
104. Endothelial dysfunction is related to insulin resistance and inflammatory biomarker levels in obese prepubertal children.
     Eur J Endocrinol, 156(4): 497-502. [Abstract] [Full-text]
105. Inhibition of UCP2 expression reverses diet-induced diabetes mellitus by effects on both insulin secretion and action.
     FASEB J, 21(4): 1153-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
106. Overweight more prevalent among children than among adolescents.
     Acta Paediatr, 96(4): 577-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
107. Recurrent abdominal pain in school children: effect of obesity and diet.
     Acta Paediatr, 96(4): 572-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
108. Age and gender differences in VO2max in Swedish obese children and adolescents.
     Acta Paediatr, 96(4): 567-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
109. A neuropsychological assessment of frontal cognitive functions in Prader-Willi syndrome.
     J Intellect Disabil Res, 51: 350-65. [Abstract] [Full-text]
110. Low serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in obese subjects with normal serum triglycerides: the role of insulin resistance and inflammatory cytokines.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 441-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
111. Weight cycling in a very low-calorie diet programme has no effect on weight loss velocity, blood pressure and serum lipid profile.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 379-85. [Abstract] [Full-text]
112. Mechanism by which a novel non-thiazolidinedione peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma agonist, FK614, ameliorates insulin resistance in Zucker fatty rats.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 369-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
113. Topiramate in the treatment of obese subjects with drug-naive type 2 diabetes.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 360-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
114. Impact of obesity on coronary artery calcification examined by electron beam computed tomographic scan.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 354-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
115. Adiponectin receptors gene expression in lymphocytes of obese and anorexic patients.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 344-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
116. Influences of diabetes (db/db), obese (ob/ob) and dystrophic (dy/dy) genotype mutations on hind limb bone maturation: a morphometric, radiological and cytochemical indices analysis.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 311-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
117. Assessment of abnormal glucose homeostasis and insulin resistance in Turkish obese children and adolescents.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 304-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
118. Topical fat reduction from the waist.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 300-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
119. Thermogenic and metabolic antiobesity drugs: rationale and opportunities.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 259-75. [Abstract] [Full-text]
120. Cardiovascular metabolic syndrome - an interplay of, obesity, inflammation, diabetes and coronary heart disease.
     Diabetes Obes Metab, 9(3): 218-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
121. Mortality and prognostic factors in patients with obesity-hypoventilation syndrome undergoing noninvasive ventilation.
     J Intern Med, 261(4): 375-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
122. Obesity resistance of the stearoyl-CoA desaturase-deficient (scd1-/-) mouse results from disruption of the epidermal lipid barrier and adaptive thermoregulation.
     Biol Chem, 388(4): 405-18. [Abstract] [Full-text]
123. Prenatal exposures and glucose metabolism in adulthood: are effects mediated through birth weight and adiposity?
     Diabetes Care, 30(4): 918-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]
124. Influence of breastfeeding on obesity and type 2 diabetes risk factors in Latino youth with a family history of type 2 diabetes.
     Diabetes Care, 30(4): 784-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
125. The impact of maternal glycemia and obesity on early postnatal growth in a nondiabetic Caucasian population.
     Diabetes Care, 30(4): 777-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
126. Dietary energy density is associated with obesity and the metabolic syndrome in U.S. adults.
     Diabetes Care, 30(4): 974-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
127. Adipose tissue hypoxia in obesity and its impact on adipocytokine dysregulation.
     Diabetes, 56(4): 901-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
128. Physiological, pathological and potential therapeutic roles of ghrelin.
     Drug Discov Today, 12(7): 276-88. [Abstract] [Full-text]
129. Nursing challenges in the administration of oral antidepressant medications in gastric bypass patients.
     J Perianesth Nurs, 22(2): 108-21; quiz 122-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
130. Childhood overweight: parental perceptions and readiness for change.
     J Sch Nurs, 23(2): 73-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
131. Impaired contact hypersensitivity in diet-induced obese mice.
     J Dermatol Sci, 46(2): 117-26. [Abstract] [Full-text]
132. Visceral fat adipokine secretion is associated with systemic inflammation in obese humans.
     Diabetes, 56(4): 1010-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
133. Defective insulin and acetylcholine induction of endothelial cell-nitric oxide synthase through insulin receptor substrate/Akt signaling pathway in aorta of obese rats.
     Diabetes, 56(4): 1014-24. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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