Obesity

Data on obesity described by investigators at Franz-Volhard Clinical Research Center

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 13th, 2007

Research findings, "Dissociation between adipose nitric oxide synthase expression and tissue metabolism," are discussed in a new report. "Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) expression in adipose tissue is increased in obese subjects. The functional relevance is not known," investigators in Berlin, Germany report.

"The objective was to compare adipose tissue metabolism between obese men with greater or lower adipose endothelial NOS (eNOS) or inducible NOS (iNOS) expression. The design was an open-labeled prospective study. The study took place at an academic clinical research center. The patients included 14 obese (32 ±0.6 kg/m2) and eight normal-weight (23 ±2...

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