Researchers from China’s Children’s Hospital of Soochow embarked on a study to investigate the potential role of CTRP3 in obese children and explore its relationships with insulin sensitivity, pancreatic β cell function, and obesity-related markers. What is CTRP3?...
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UT Knoxville & Kaiser Permanente-Led Research Shows Sugar Consumption During Pregnancy Leads to Obesity
Sugar will soon become the new smoking. An avalanche of observational study data must be making the sugar growers pause to consider their future options. The U.S. faces an obesity epidemic and when factoring in comorbidities (e.g. arthritis, cardiovascular problems,...
Maine Medical Center Awarded $2.2 Million to Study Links of Childhood Obesity to Chemicals
Joe Lawler of the Press Herald reports that the Maine Medical Center has embarked on a research program to study common household chemicals and their connection to teenage obesity as well as the emergency of osteoporosis later in life. The $2.2 million research grants...
Australian Tax-Payer Funded “Cruel Diet” Clinical Trial
Some are complaining in Australia that their tax dollars are being allocated to cruel clinical trials for overweight teens. Children’s Hospital in Sydney and Melbourne are inviting overweight teenagers in a controversial weight-loss trial that experts are calling...
John Hopkins Study: Vitamin D May Help Fight Pollution-Associated Asthma in Obese Children
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) reports a recent John Hopkins University School of Medicine study reveals vitamin D may be protective among asthmatic obese children living in urban environments with high indoor air pollution. The study...
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Study Suggests Need to Include Overweight Subjects in Metabolic Research
MedicalXpress reports that Children's Hospital Los Angeles investigators have demonstrated the need to include a growing constituency of obese and overweight children and adults in clinical research, with their study of a key marker for metabolism and body temperature...