CME: Trends in Obesity-Associated Cancers
This course discusses a study that examined whether a shift of obesity-associated cancer burden...
Obesity
The Impact of Physical Activity & Sedentary Behavior on Fracture Risk
Regular physical activity, including lighter-intensity activities, and less sedentary time appear...
Trends in Obesity-Associated Cancers
Research has shown that obesity accelerates the development of certain cancers, including cancers...
Diabesity: The Tricky Devil in times of COVID-19
We are fighting multiple health devils in our daily lives. While COVID-19 is the most recent one,...
Effect of Tannic Acid on Nutrition and Activities of Detoxification Enzymes and Acetylcholinesterase of the Fall Webworm (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae).
Plant tannins, polyphenolic plant secondary metabolites are involved in important chemical defense processes in plants. In this study, tannic acid was used as the standard of plant tannins to determine the effects on nutritional...
Reliable Phylogenetic Regressions for Multivariate Comparative Data: Illustration with the MANOVA and Application to the Effect of Diet on Mandible Morphology in Phyllostomid Bats.
Understanding what shapes species phenotypes over macroevolutionary timescales from comparative data often requires studying the relationship between phenotypes and putative explanatory factors or testing for differences in...
Comparison of Single-Incision and Conventional Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity: a Meta-Analysis.
Single-incision laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (SILSG) has been proposed as an alternative to conventional laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (CLSG) in obese patients. This study aims to compare the surgical outcomes of these two...
Psychosocial Factors that Inform the Decision to Have Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Utilization in Ethnically Diverse Patients.
Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) is currently the only clinically proven method of weight loss that is effective in treating severe obesity and its related comorbidities. However, only about 36% of MBS-eligible patients...
Endocrine testing in obesity.
Endocrine disorders such as Cushing’s syndrome and hypothyroidism may cause weight gain and exacerbate metabolic dysfunction in obesity. Other forms of endocrine dysfunction, particularly gonadal dysfunction (predominantly...
Proteostasis in thermogenesis and obesity.
The proper production, degradation, folding and activity of proteins, proteostasis, is essential for any cellular function. From single cell organisms to humans, selective pressures have led to the evolution of adaptive programs...
Association between dietary inflammatory index and upper aerodigestive tract cancer risk: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.
The relationship between dietary inflammatory index (DII) and upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancer risk have been investigated in a growing number of epidemiological studies. However, their findings were inconsistent, and no...
An improved cytochrome P450 phenotyping cocktail with a simplified and highly sensitive UHPLC-MS/MS assay in human plasma.
Measuring in vivo changes in the drug metabolizing activity of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes is critical to understanding and assessing drug-drug, drug-diet and drug-disease interactions. The sensitivity and specificity of...
