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Pregnant and living with obesity could increase CRC risk in adult offspring
A mother-to-be living with obesity could be increasing the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in her adult children, according to a study of...
Targeting mitochondria shows promise in treating obesity
A team of University of California, Irvine, scientists have discovered a novel pharmacological approach to attenuate the mitochondrial...
Neutralising asprosin breaks disease cycle promoting metabolic syndrome and obesity
Researchers at Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals (UH) and Case Western Reserve University have discovered a...
How fructose in the diet contributes to obesity
Eating fructose appears to alter cells in the digestive tract in a way that enables it to take in more nutrients, according to a...
Bariatric surgery could improve asthma management in type-2 high asthma with comorbid obesity
Researchers from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, have suggested that bariatric surgery can improve asthma management in...
Prior bariatric surgery in COVID positive patients may offer protection against severity of illness
Patients who has bariatric surgery before they tested positive for CVOID-19 were less likely to be admitted to hospital, had a shorter...
Journal watch - review of the latest clinical papers 10/08/2021
Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...
Study finds high BMI causes depression and lowers wellbeing
Researchers from the UK have published the outcomes from a study that provides further evidence that being overweight causes depression...
Cytokine increases production of beige fat burning more cellular energy
An immune signal promotes the production of energy-burning beige fat, according to a study Dr by Zhonghan Yang and colleagues from Sun...
Blocking transport of leptin impairs neurons function that control pancreatic insulin secretion
A team of researchers from Inserm, Université de Lille, and Lille University Hospital in the Lille Neuroscience and Cognition laboratory,...
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