African American men with heart disease in worse shape than white counterparts
...eing evaluated for CAD, African Americans are more obese and, contrary to popular belief, have significantly lower exercise capacity than their Caucasian counterparts," states Lavie. Emphasis on weight reduction and increased physical fitness is particularly important for the prevention of cardiovascular ...Other highlights in the November 20 issue of JNCI
...er studies, the researchers found that genetically obese mice had less normal cellular maturation in their mammary glands than lean mice. "These results suggest a novel association of diet-induced obesity, mammary gland development, and the risk for breast cancer," the authors conclude. Contact: Brenda Hu...Obese women have thicker carotid artery walls, higher stroke risk
...ght women (27.2 BMI) had an average of 0.98 mm and obese women (33.8 BMI) had an average of 1.02 mm.IM was ...for lean women, 21 for overweight women and 23 for obese women. Women with high waist-to-hip ratios also had higher triglycerides, glucose and insulin and de...OHSU researcher presents findings on appetite-reducing hormone at neuroscience meeting
... of long-term PYY 3-36 treatment on animals, using obese rhesus macaque monkeys as a model."...Early sexual development, childhood obesity link is opposite for boys and girls, UIC study says
...ile in boys early developers are less likely to be obese than other males. The analysis, by University of Illinois at Chicago nutritional epidemiologist Dr. Youfa Wang, appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics. Although previous studies have suggested that sexual maturity is associated with ...Obesity study focuses on after-school hours
...er GPI studies are providing evidence that putting obese kids in similar after-school programs reduces their fatness and that it can help other children avoid obesity. They picked third-graders for the new study because that tends to be the age when physical activity begins to decline and weight starts ed...Significantly lower physical activity levels in obese adolescents contribute to continued obesity
...o methods to assess physical activity in groups of obese and normal-weight adolescent boys and girls. They... during exercise were the same whether a child was obese or normal weight; however, over the long term, the obese adolescents were less active, engaged in fe...New study shows weight loss decreases ACE enzyme that controls blood pressure
...Harp previously worked. "We intensively studied 16 obese but otherwise healthy, non-diabetic adults on the ...t 7 percent of their initial weight and were still obese at the end of the study, they still had a significant improvement in ACE activity and also in blood ...Rigorous, short-term diet-exercise program lowers heart disease risk
...ia, Los Angeles. Barnard and colleagues studied 11 obese (body mass index of 30 or greater) men aged 38 to ...tly (about 4 percent each), the men were all still obese at the end of the three-week program. The risk reduction occurs quickly, even if a person is still o...Experienced surgeon reduces complications from minimally invasive 'stomach staple' surgery
...s. Patients in the study were considered morbidly obese with a body-mass index between 39 and 61. Currently a body-mass index greater than 25 is considered overweight and a body-mass index greater than 30 is considered obese. Laparoscopic gastric bypass is becoming a popular technique for treating people ...Elevated leptin in teens linked with dangerous artery changes
...ite and metabolism. It can harm blood vessels and obese people have high levels. The stiffness of a person's arteries has a direct effect on the workload of the heart. In healthy individuals, the walls of the arteries expand and contract as blood is pumped through them. As arteries lose their elasticity...Five-year-old girls with high cholesterol are more likely to be overweight at age twelve
...he children were black. None of the children were obese at the start of the study. The only difference between the two groups other than cholesterol levels was that the non-hypercholesterolemic children were significantly taller than the hypercholesterolemic children. In the following years, the hyperchol...Greater incidence of obesity among adults with disabling conditions
...of the group of individuals with disabilities were obese defined as having body mass index greater than 30 compared with about 15 percent of the adults without disabling conditions. According to Wee, who is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the highest risk for obesity w...Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are undetected in over one quarter of obese population
Over one quarter of obese people may have previously undetected or untreated...." XENDOS study results showed that: 28.3% of obese people had previously undetected or untreated diabetes or pre-diabetes (IGT)The risk of having type ...Children's body mass index predicts overweight or obesity in adulthood
...reater the risk for that child to be overweight or obese as an adult. Weight and stature from ages 3 to 20 ...third of those who eventually become overweight or obese do so during the first 20 years of life of their lives, and that even modest reductions in weight at...Whole grains reduce long-term risk of type 2 diabetes in men
...kes had a 52% lower risk of diabetes than inactive obese persons in the lowest whole grain intake category. The high fiber content of the bran fraction of whole grains delays gastric emptying and slows the release of glucose into the circulation, thus reducing insulin response after meals. This process m...Short-term pain can mean long-term gain for osteoarthritis patients
... and activity called ADAPT. All were overweight or obese -- a factor known to exacerbate knee the negative impact osteoarthritis has on quality of life -- as well as older than 60 and reporting that their knee pain caused physical limitations and difficulty with daily activities. Prior to their enrollment...'Jolly fat' hypothesis doesnt carry weight
...tween obesity and psychological dysfunction or the obese were worse off," he and his colleagues write. " In... better mental health among the obese. In sum, the obese were not more jolly." Roberts and his colleagues looked at data from a long-term study of residents ...Women with PCOS and their siblings with hormone problems have same gene defect
...ters and those with high androgen levels were more obese than unaffected sisters. The PCOS brothers also had significantly elevated levels of the androgen DHEAS, which correlated with the high androgen levels in their sisters with PCOS. These results strongly suggest that the same gene defect is respo...Obesity might play part in increasing breast cancer rates among Hispanics
...ho gained the most weight. People are considered obese if they have a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or more. A 5-foot-5-inch woman who weighs about 180 pounds has a BMI of 30. Although researchers do not know exactly how weight gain affects cancer risk, the association of ER+/PR+ tumors with women who g...