Yearly Archives: 2002

Myostatin might be a useful target for preventing or treating obesity and associated conditions, like diabetes.

Obesity is spreading at an alarming rate, not just in industrialized countries but in developing countries, where obesity often sits next to malnutrition.

Researchers have mapped the location of a gene associated with inherited pancreatic cancer.

Leptin replacement therapy drastically reduces triglyceride levels and controls diabetes in patients with lipodystrophies.

Maya children in the United States are taller and longer-legged than Mayan children in Guatemala, as a result of greater access to food and health care. But they are also much heavier.

apid rates of weight gain during infancy could be linked to obesity later in childhood, report researchers in the February issue of Pediatrics.

A new study has found the first evidence that short periods of psychological stress can cause the body to take longer to clear heart-damaging fats from the bloodstream.

The increased activity of a single enzyme in fat cells may be a common cause of obesity and obesity-linked diseases, including diabetes.

A new study shows that depression is associated with an increased incidence of heart failure in elderly women, but not elderly men.

A new study shows that a synthetic antioxidant can delay and prevent the onset of autoimmune diabetes in mice.

Young adults who believe they can adhere to the regimen required to control their Type I diabetes have better blood sugar control than those who do not.

A new study indicates that performing diabetes tests on people visiting the doctor for other health concerns may be a helpful and cost-effective screening strategy.

Researchers identify how leptin may result in the development of drugs to help manage obesity and diabetes.

Dietary factors are recognized as contributing to the development of stomach and esophagus cancers.

A parent who encourages a preschool child to clean his plate before leaving the table or before getting dessert may be contributing to a problem that has grown to epidemic proportions in the United States-obesity among preschool children.

The DASH diet plus reduced dietary sodium lowers blood pressure for all persons, according to the first detailed subgroup analysis of the DASH study results.