Findings from a positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging study of the amygdala reveals that low levels of the enzyme aromatase, which catalyses oestrogen biosynthesis, are associated with a higher body mass index and lower self-control, as measured by a standard personality test.
Americans are less likely to blame people with obesity for their condition and are more likely to believe that obesity has a medical explanation now than three years ago, according to the results of two online surveys involving more than 6,000 UK and US adults. The outcomes were presented at the European and International Congress on Obesity (ECOICO 2020).
There is a clear relationship between obesity and the severity of COVID-19 disease, according to research presented by François Pattou, Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lille, and head of the Department of General and Endocrine Surgery at Lille University Hospital, France, at this year's European and International Congress on Obesity.
A study of obesity among the largest Latino populations living in New York City (NYC) has reported that the prevalence of obesity varies widely with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans much more likely to have obesity than Dominicans, Ecuadorians and Colombians.
Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have delivered a proof of concept for a novel cell-based therapy for obesity that would by transplanting human brown-like (HUMBLE) fat cells, human white fat cells that have been genetically modified to become similar to heat-generating brown fat cells. The finding were reported in the paper, ‘CRISPR-engineered human brown-like adipocytes prevent diet-induced obesity and ameliorate metabolic syndrome in mice’, published in Science Translational Medicine.
