Body fat found under the skin may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests.
... a previously unknown molecular signaling pathway in body fat cells that normally acts to suppress ... and macrophages in the liver, where they control metabolism of fats. Mice lacking PPAR-d developed the ...
... shows. The research shows a 23% overlap between the genes that control testosterone and those that regulate body fat composition, suggesting that these two variables are partly controlled by the same ...
... University study showed that women who began menstruating at an earlier age had a higher percentage of body fat as adults than women who began menstruating later.
But women who began menstruating ...
... at the university's Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre.
After menopause, a woman's percentage of body fat tends to increase and redistribute to the abdomen, Spritzer said. Excess belly fat is a ...
... in blacks, which would explain the dissociation between weight expressed as BMI and measured body fat.
"If our results are confirmed in a larger study population by other researchers, the obesity ...
Older women who take hormone therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms may get the added benefit of reduced body fat if they are physically active, according to a new study.
... mass index and waistline measurement overestimate obesity in blacks, according to a new study. The results suggest that conventional methods for estimating body fat may need to become race-specific.
... marker of excess weight and correlates well with body fat content in adults; however, it fails ... obesity increase the risk for VTE, but the location of body fat also plays some unknown role. For health ...
... unimpaired the fly larva can build up fat reserves. It becomes fat. 'Larvae with a mutation of schlank ... Thanks to the Lass gene they resumed building up body fat and survived until the next development ...
... Nature, the scientists used the pulse of radiocarbon to analyze fat cell turnover in humans.
Radiocarbon or carbon ... adult men resulted in significant increase in body fat volume but no change in number ...
... ALK7 plays important roles in the regulation of body fat deposition as well as the release of insulin ... mice lacking ALK7 accumulated less fat and gained less weight than their normal counterparts ...
... Association 68th Scientific Sessions held in San Francisco. "It has been shown that people who store body fat in their abdomens are at greater risk to develop diabetes and other chronic illnesses, ...
... of body fat in determining risk of heart attacks," said Jingzhong Ding, M.D., lead ... fat deposits, rather than total body fat, are most related to calcified coronary plaque," said Ding. "Inflammatory ...
Researchers have developed a capsule-like 'Bod Pod' that measures body fat and muscle mass and could improve research on obesity and nutrition.
