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Obesity and Diabetes Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . June 14th, 2004

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Diabetes Therapy - Simplified method for determining rosiglitazone in plasma developed

Diabetic Neuropathy - Latissimus dorsi muscle changes impair cardiomyoplasty in diabetes

Insulin Resistance - Insulin resistance and hypertension reviewed

Obesity and Diabetes - Dietary protein impact on glycemic control during weight loss reviewed

Type 2 Diabetes Pathogenesis - Hypothesis for type 2 diabetes pathogenesis proposed

Amoebiasis - Diabetic patients have increased risk of amoebiasis

Atherosclerosis - Haptoglobin phenotypes differ in ability to inhibit heme transfer from Hb to LDL

Behavioral Health - Women exposed to frustrating noise stress snack more afterwards

Breast Cancer - Obesity may affect accuracy of mammography

Cancer Therapy - Inhibiting IGF-1R tyrosine kinase protects against malignancies

Collaborations - Pharmaceuticals enter agreement involving obesity compound

Collaborations - Use of breakthrough target demonstrated to regulate obesity licensed

Crohn Disease - Positive results reported on trials of Humira in Crohn disease

Diabetes - Commercial health teas differ in efficacy of glucose absorption

Diabetes - Diabetics benefit from aggressive blood pressure control

Diabetes - Traveling tips offered to people with diabetes

Diabetes Care - New system helps type I diabetics

Diabetes Epidemiology - Type 2 diabetes among U.K. Asian children higher than among white children

Diabetes Genomics and Genetics - Autoimmune diabetes is blocked in stat4-deficient mice

Diabetes Management - New Precision Xtra blood glucose test strip launched

Diabetes Pathogenesis - Aging Americans and diabetes reviewed

Diabetes Pathogenesis - Arsenic trioxide generates islet cell toxicity in rabbits

Diabetes Pathogenesis - Relation between type 1 diabetes and coxsackievirus investigated

Diabetes Pathogenesis - pdx-1 expression promotes differentiation of insulin-producing cells

Diabetes Survival & Mortality - QT interval is predictor risk of death in diabetes

Diabetes Therapy - AICAR stimulates adiponectin and inhibits cytokines in adipose tissue

Diabetes Therapy - Interaction of serum albumin with novel antidiabetic agent described

Diabetes Therapy - Vascular endothelial growth factor supports islet graft survival

Diabetic Nephropathy - Hepatocyte growth factor gene transfer may treat diabetic kidney disease

Diabetic Neuropathy - Diabetic autonomic neuropathy reviewed

Endocrinology - Steatohepatitis signals insulin resistance during growth hormone therapy

Epidemiology - Health Department says chronic disease threat to Alabamians

Exercise - Fitness increases anaerobic capacity during upper body exercise

Finance - PacificHealth Laboratories reports a 64% increase in revenues

Fitness - Training effect on heart rate and blood pressure variability examined

Genetics & Genomics - GNB3 gene associated with pulse pressure and risk for cardiovascular disease

Hypertension - Study counters perceptions about treating hypertension in blacks

Information Technology - Interactive obesity management program introduced

Insulin Resistance - Contractions induce phosphorylation of AMPK site Ser565 in muscle

Insulin Resistance - Molecular regulation of SREBP function investigated

Insulin Resistance - Offspring of hypertensives have greater insulin resistance than controls

Lipid Studies - Hepatic steatosis not due to impaired fatty acid oxidation capacities

Market Analysis - Type 1 diabetes drug market to expand with insulin analogs, inhaled insulins

Metabolic Diseases - Abdominal fat increases FFA distribution to liver, especially in women

Morphology - Structure of healthy, but obese, young women's hearts is different

Obesity - Cardiology expert comments on diet studies

Obesity - StayWell Weight Management Solution Center launched

Obesity - Study: CLA helps overweight adults safely reduce body fat

Obesity Genomics and Genetics - Genetic determinants of obesity-related lipid traits outlined

Obesity Pathogenesis - Neuropeptide Y presynaptic actions reduced in obese rat hypothalamus

Obesity Pathogenesis - PPAR-gamma required in mature white and brown adipocytes for survival

Obesity Pathogenesis - Total ghrelin remains unchanged after short-term energy restriction

Obesity Risk Factor - Gourmet coffee consumption increases obesity risk in college women

Obesity Therapy - Amantadine did not affect weight gain induced by olanzapine

Pancreas - Pax2 mutant mice have increased numbers of islets of Langerhans

Pancreas Transplantation - Donor obesity does not affect outcome after cadaver pancreas transplant

Personnel - Gerard E. Puorro and Brian F. Sullivan join board of SonoPrepmaker

Transplant Medicine - Hepatocyte growth factor expands outcomes after islet transplantation

Type 2 Diabetes - Diabetes study demonstrates new paradigm for finding disease-associated genes

Type 2 Diabetes - Inositol hexakisphosphate helps regulate beta-cell protein phosphatases

Urinary Tract Infection - Conditions favoring E. coli cause greater UTI risk in some diabetics

Vasculopathy - Epidermal progenitor cells help restore blood flow in diabetic ischemic limbs

Weight Loss - Randomized trials study low-fat vs low-carbohydrate diets for weight loss

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