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Obesity linked to a nearly 6-fold increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, with genetics and lifestyle also raising risk
Obesity is linked to a nearly 6-fold increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D),…
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Professors examine what influences healthy, sustainable food choices
“We eat first with our eyes.” This comment has been attributed to Marcus Gavius Apicius,…
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Food insecurity in toddler years linked to poor health, but not obesity
Young children, who grow up in homes with limited access to nutritious foods (known as…
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Promising clinical trial results for drug for rare disease in which patients can’t eat fat
People with familial chylomicronemia syndrome are born with a genetic mutation that means they can’t…
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Signals from skin cells control fat cell specialization
When cells change to a more specialized type, we call this process cellular differentiation. Scientists…
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ADVANCE study provides evidence for shift to dolutegravir-containing ART
The South African study shows that dolutegravir-containing regimens perform as well as the current efavirenz-containing…
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The Lypla1 gene impacts obesity in a sex-specific manner
Susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance and other cardio-metabolic traits may also be dependent on a…
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Only half of US kids and teens have ideal cholesterol levels
Cholesterol levels in U.S. youth have improved from 1999 to 2016, but only half of…
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The Lancet Global Health: 1 in 7 babies worldwide born with a low birthweight
More than 20 million babies were born with a low birthweight (less than 2500g; 5.5…
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