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 8 (August)

1. Resistance to obesity and resistance to atherosclerosis: is there a metabolic link?
   Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 17(7): 554-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Overweight and obesity affect treatment response in major depression.
   Biol Psychiatry, 62(4): 321-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Relationship between hepatic/visceral fat and hepatic insulin resistance in nondiabetic and type 2 diabetic subjects.
   Gastroenterology, 133(2): 496-506. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Central adiposity and risk of Barrett's esophagus.
   Gastroenterology, 133(2): 403-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Prepregnancy obesity as a risk factor for structural birth defects.
   Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 161(8): 745-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Receipt of appropriate primary breast cancer therapy and adjuvant therapy are not associated with obesity in older women with access to health care.
   J Clin Oncol, 25(23): 3428-36. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. The clinicopathological profile of Indian patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is different from that in the West.
   Dig Dis Sci, 52(9): 2368-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Childhood obesity and skeletal maturation assessed with Fishman's hand-wrist analysis.
   Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop, 132(2): 185-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Treating morbid obesity with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding.
   Am J Surg, 194(3): 333-43; discussion 344-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Obesity and poor reproductive outcome: the potential role of the endometrium.
    Fertil Steril, 88(2): 446-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Cardiovascular risk factors are reduced with a low dose of acarbose in obese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.
    Fertil Steril, 88(2): 519-22. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Endocrine regulation of energy metabolism by the skeleton.
    Cell, 130(3): 456-69. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Bone weighs in on obesity.
    Cell, 130(3): 409-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Noninvasive body contouring by focused ultrasound: safety and efficacy of the Contour I device in a multicenter, controlled, clinical study.
    Plast Reconstr Surg, 120(3): 779-89; discussion 790. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Neuropeptidomics to study peptide processing in animal models of obesity.
    Endocrinology, 148(9): 4185-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Regulation of prohormone convertases in hypothalamic neurons: implications for prothyrotropin-releasing hormone and proopiomelanocortin.
    Endocrinology, 148(9): 4191-200. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Cardiac energy metabolism in obesity.
    Circ Res, 101(4): 335-47. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Leptin gene transfer in the hypothalamus enhances longevity in adult monogenic mutant mice in the absence of circulating leptin.
    Neurobiol Aging, 28(10): 1594-604. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Pharmacokinetics of doxorubicin and etoposide in a morbidly obese pediatric patient.
    Pediatr Hematol Oncol, 24(6): 437-45. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. The effect of providing power mobility on body weight change.
    Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 86(9): 746-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Pioglitazone ameliorates endothelial dysfunction in obese rats with nephropathy.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 361(4): 835-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Low molecular weight adiponectin negatively correlates with the waist circumference and monocytic IL-6 release.
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 361(4): 968-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Obesity cardiomyopathy: diagnosis and therapeutic implications.
    Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med, 4(9): 480-90. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Long-term mortality after gastric bypass surgery.
    N Engl J Med, 357(8): 753-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Effects of bariatric surgery on mortality in Swedish obese subjects.
    N Engl J Med, 357(8): 741-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Increased adiponectin secretion by highly purified eicosapentaenoic acid in rodent models of obesity and human obese subjects.
    Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 27(9): 1918-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Gastric emptying of water in obese pregnant women at term.
    Anesth Analg, 105(3): 751-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Obesity and hemodialysis vascular access failure.
    Am J Kidney Dis, 50(3): 450-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Quantifying the impact of obesity category on major chronic diseases in Canada.
    ScientificWorldJournal, 7: 1211-21. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Orexitropic signaling proteins in obese children.
    ScientificWorldJournal, 7: 1263-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Influence of epicardial adipose tissue and adipocytokine levels on cardiac abnormalities in visceral obesity.
    Int J Cardiol, 121(1): 132-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Toward increased capacity for practice-based research among health professionals: implementing a multisite qualitative research project with dietitians.
    Qual Health Res, 17(7): 902-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Obesity is associated with secondary hyperparathyroidism in men with moderate and severe chronic kidney disease.
    Clin J Am Soc Nephrol, 2(5): 1024-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Associations of body size with metabolic syndrome and mortality in moderate chronic kidney disease.
    Clin J Am Soc Nephrol, 2(5): 992-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. The implication of obesity on total antioxidant capacity in apparently healthy men and women: the ATTICA study.
    Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 17(8): 590-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Metabolic syndrome in young adults from two socioeconomic Latin American settings.
    Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 17(8): 581-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
37. Increased body iron stores of obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome are a consequence of insulin resistance and hyperinsulinism and are not a result of reduced menstrual losses.
    Diabetes Care, 30(9): 2309-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
38. Childhood obesity and metabolic imprinting: the ongoing effects of maternal hyperglycemia.
    Diabetes Care, 30(9): 2287-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
39. Hepatic lipin 1beta expression is diminished in insulin-resistant obese subjects and is reactivated by marked weight loss.
    Diabetes, 56(9): 2395-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
40. The energy expenditure of using a "walk-and-work" desk for office workers with obesity.
    Br J Sports Med, 41(9): 558-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
41. Absence of CC chemokine ligand 2 does not limit obesity-associated infiltration of macrophages into adipose tissue.
    Diabetes, 56(9): 2242-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
42. Serum leptin levels, hepatic leptin receptor transcription, and clinical predictors of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in obese bariatric surgery patients.
    Surg Endosc, 21(9): 1593-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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