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Obesity is the condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body (mostly in subcutaneous tissues). clinical obesity is considered to be present when a person has a BMI of over 30 (Oxford Dic...
Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis NASH
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH is a common, often “silent” liver disease. It resembles alcoholic liver disease, but occurs in people who drink little or no alcohol. The major featu...
Within medicine, nutrition (the study of food and the effect of its components on the body) has many different roles. Appropriate nutrition can help prevent certain diseases, or treat others. In cri...
Endocrinology is the study of the endocrine glands and the hormones that they secrete (Oxford Medical Dictionary). There are several groups of hormones; Reproductive/Sex hormones such as FSH, LH...
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TauRx Therapeutics begins Phase 3 clinical trial in early form of dementia
TauRx Therapeutics announced the initiation of a global Phase 3 clinical trial in a type of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) also known as Pick’s Disease. The study focuses on a type of FTD known as be...
From obesity genetics to the future of personalized obesity therapy
Genetic factors influence obesity risk with numerous variants and genes associated with differences in BMI and obesity. Here, Julia El-Sayed Moustafa and Philippe Froguel outline current knowledge in...
Genes behind obesity mapped in large-scale study
(Uppsala University) An international research team has identified seven new gene loci linked to obesity. Researchers were also able to show that the genetic mechanisms that cause extreme obesity are...
Childhood obesity: an interview with Professor Clodagh O’Gorman
Childhood obesity is harder to define than adult obesity. This is because any definition of obesity relies on measurements of both height and weight, and the calculation of body mass index (BMI) based...
Rember revamped for Phase 3 testing in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia
Rember—the blue dye that created a stir in 2008 when Phase 2 clinical trial data claimed that it slowed decline in people with Alzheimer's disease—has now been revamped for Phase 3 testing in anot...
Obesity: Global Public Health Challenge or Investment Opportunity?
By Marion Nestle Worried about the potential personal and economic costs of obesity? Never mind. It’s time to view obesity as a business opportunity. As the press release for a new research rep...
Obesity may be declining among preschool-aged children living in low-income families
(JAMA and Archives Journals) "To our knowledge, this is the first national study to show that the prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity among young US children may have begun to decline," the auth...
Childhood Obesity May Be Reversing Its Course
It's the best health news in a decade concerning children and obesity. Officials say childhood obesity rates are declining in several cities across the U.S., a sign that the overall obesity epidemi...
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Patients with corticobasal degeneration (CBD) pathology present with diverse clinical syndromes also associated with other neuropathologies, including corticobasal syndrome, progressive nonfluent apha...
Environmental dependency behaviours in frontotemporal dementia: have we been underrating them?
Environmental dependency (ED) behaviours, such as imitation behaviour (IB) and incidental utilization behaviour (UB), are considered pathognomonic of a frontal lesion and can play a unique role in dia...
How Much Do Physicians in Latin America Know About Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia?
Diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) can be especially challenging during the early stages for several reasons, including the fact that (a) behavioral disturbances in bvFTD...
Eating Disturbance in Behavioural-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.
Behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder, clinically characterised by changes in cognition, personality and behaviour. Marked disturbances...
Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia-Defining Genetic and Pathological Subtypes.
Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a clinically, genetically and pathologically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder caused by FTLD-tau, FTLD-TDP and FTLD-FUS pathologies. Clin...
