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Research from South Korea, Austria and Canada add new data to obesity body of knowledge

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 7th, 2006

New findings from South Korea, Austria and Canada describe advances in obesity.

Study 1: DA-8159 can improve erectile dysfunction caused by diet-induced obesity.

In a recent report, researchers in South Korea conducted a study "to examine the changes in the erectile function in diet-induced obese rats and investigate the oral efficacy of DA-8159, a new phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitor, on penile erection in obese rats. The rats were fed a high-energy diet for 12 weeks and divided into three groups: an obesity-resistant (OR) control group, an obesity-prone (OP) control group, and an OP-DA-8159 treatment (DA-8159) group. The...

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