Low-carb diet better than low-fat diet at improving metabolic syndrome
...eview the literature and show that the features of metabolic syndrome are precisely those that are improved by ...diabetes, stroke and heart disease. The markers of metabolic syndrome - high blood pressure, low HDL levels, high triglycerides, obesity, high blood glucose and ...Jefferson researchers find lack of protein in obese people is risk factor for kidney, heart disease
...t shows why obese people who have what is known as metabolic syndrome are at risk for, and are dying of, heart disease." The metabolic risk syndrome is a combination of medical disorders that is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease...OHSU study reveals each persons' activity level appears intrinsic, possibly tied to genetics
...sity, coronary heart disease, respiratory disease, metabolic diseases like diabetes, anxiety, depression, breast cancer and colon cancer," said Elinor Sullivan, an OHSU graduate student conducting research at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. "Based on the wealth of benefits provided by regular exer...Exercise may ward off death in women with metabolic syndrome
...evel of fitness may extend the lives of women with metabolic syndrome, according to new findings presented toda...hed in 1992. Over the next nine years, those with metabolic syndrome were 57 percent more likely to die than those who didn't have the cluster of risk factors t...Study highlights the ramifications of medical misdiagnosis
... steps in finding a cure for FOP are to define the metabolic pathways that influence the disease and identify the gene that causes it, according to the researchers. In addition to Kitterman and Kaplan, the study team included Sharon Kantanie, MAT, of the International FOP Association, and David Rocke, PhD, of...A recipe for overeating: Studies outline dangers of mixing stress, deprivation and tempting foods
...ng strengthens the evidence that reward, more than metabolic need, drives binge eating.Boggiano and her colleagues speculate that sensitized opioid-receptor signaling may be necessary to initiate binge eating. In the rats, stress and reduced calories seemed to sensitize those receptors to the presence of high...Fatty liver a possible risk for hypertension, cardiovascular disease
... that fatty liver should be considered part of the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions physicians use t...t high risk. Conditions currently included in the metabolic syndrome are abdominal obesity, low HDL cholesterol, high blood sugar, high blood pressure and high ...Children with neurological and neuromuscular diseases at risk for flu-related respiratory failure
...oglobins in the blood), chronic renal dysfunction, metabolic and endocrine conditions, long-term salicylate (aspirin and some other drugs) therapy, and pregnancy. Despite the frequency of influenza infection and the prevalence of these chronic medical conditions, little is known about their relative contributi...ACTOplus met (pioglitazone HCl and metformin HCl)
...y. ACTOplus met should not be taken by people with metabolic acidosis or with hypersensitivity to pioglitazone, metformin or any other component of ACTOplus met. ACTOplus met should not be taken by people who drink excessive amounts of alcohol. ACTOplus met should be discontinued in patients with severe infect...Successful tests of new treatments in mice for eye disease causing irreversible blindness in humans
... degeneration of these cells, or lack of essential metabolic ingredients necessary for vision in the cells. In a subset of these diseases, it is known that the retina stops functioning due to loss of the lecithin retinol acyl-transferase enzyme (LRAT). LRAT is required for regeneration of a pigment necessary f...Keck School of Medicine pediatric endocrinologist elected to Institute of Medicine
...n 100 articles on types 1 and 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders in peer-reviewed journals, and presenting hundreds of abstracts at major meetings throughout the world, Kaufman is personally involved in unique grass-roots projects, such as camps for children with diabetes. She joins nine IOM members at U...A high fat, low carbohydrate diet improves Alzheimer's disease in mice
...y components and how such components influence the metabolic state", write the authors. The authors believe that insulin and the related hormone, insulin-related growth factor-1 (IGF-1), are the key players. "Insulin is often considered a storage hormone, since it promotes deposition of fat but insulin may al...UQ leads the State in NHMRC grants
...rocess including cancer, neurological diseases and metabolic diseases." Another significant award to UQ was the $980,250 for Professor Jennifer Stow's projects, one of which is with Dr Rohan Teasdale on Protein Activation in Tumour Cells. Professor Stow, from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience, will inv...NCI grants $12.1 million for USC center to study obesity and cancer
...search that improves public health, from cancer to metabolic diseases." Keck School scientists will lead three ...nter-related projects: Examining cancer-related metabolic risk factors in overweight African-American and Latino teens and the use of strength training as a w...Fat rat enables studies of debilitating vascular disease
...s we are asking is how much of vascular disease is metabolic changes and how much is just from being obese? They go hand-in-hand, but which one is causing the disease? What if you subtract one of them out? Will you get it slower, or not at all or some mixed portion of it? If we can identify the root cause of t...Study shows new imaging tracer clarifies cause of chest pain up to 30 hours after pain stops
...on the heart during strenuous exercise, sets off a metabolic disturbance that slows down or halts the way fatty...el to glucose. The new tracer test keys in on this metabolic disturbance and seemingly remembers the imprint of an episode of reduced blood flow long after the e...Study of new treatment for short stature underway at Rush University Medical Center
... lead, in children and adults, to a range of other metabolic disorders, including lipid abnormalities, decreased bone density, obesity, and insulin resistance. Increlex is manufactured by Tercica, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of products to improve endocri...NIMH study to guide treatment choices for schizophrenia
...so was associated with significant weight-gain and metabolic changes. Surprisingly, the older, less expensive m...lso experienced substantially more weight gain and metabolic changes associated with an increased risk of diabetes than those study participants taking the other...Epidemiology in Europe: the problem starts in childhood
... with other risk factors, form what is called the metabolic syndrome , which often is a preliminary step for overt type2 diabetes. In women, additionally, obesity has adverse effects in sexual hormones and pregnancy outcomes and carries a greater risk for breast cancer. Increasing numbers of children in Europ...Research may provide new link between soft drinks and weight gain
...ead, he said, consuming fructose appears to affect metabolic rate in a way that favors fat storage. "Our study shows how fat mass increases as a direct consequence of soft drink consumption," said Dr. Tschp. The research appears in the July 2005 issue of Obesity Research, the official journal of the North Amer...