Sentences with phrase «characterized by obesity»

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Past research by Olefsky and others has shown that obesity is characterized by low - grade inflammation in adipose or fat tissues and that this inflammatory state can become chronic and result in systemic insulin resistance and diabetes.

Prader - Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disease characterized by hyperphagia — a chronic feeling of hunger that, coupled with a metabolism that utilizes drastically fewer calories than normal, often leads to excessive eating and obesity in patients with the disease.

In contrast, in mice with normal immune systems, emulsifiers induced low - grade or mild intestinal inflammation and metabolic syndrome, characterized by increased levels of food consumption, obesity, hyperglycemia and insulin resistance.

NAFLD, which is characterized by the build up of extra fat in liver cells, is associated with obesity and diabetes, and it occurs with minimal or no symptom until the disease is advanced.

Metabolic disorders related to obesity - associated insulin resistance have been characterized by an increased influx of inflammatory cells into adipose tissue (41).

Women's Health Initiative researchers found a relationship between obesity, physical activity and triple - negative breast cancer, a subtype of breast cancer characterized by a lack of estrogen, progesterone and HER2 expression.

The dimension of female obesity was found to be greater in countries characterized by gender inequality, derived by social or economic data (7).

Using genomics approaches, Dr. Nobrega has identified the gene IRX3 as the strongest association to polygenic obesity in humans, and characterized the mechanisms by which mutations altering the expression of a gene called TCF7L2 also represent the strongest genetic link to type 2 diabetes in humans.

This serious disease is characterized by cognitive disabilities and constant hunger, often leading to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

91 Normal functioning of adipose tissue is often (but not exclusively) impaired in obesity 91 and can be characterized by excessive hypertrophic adipocyte growth, elevated macrophage infiltration, hypoxia and dysregulated lipid storage.92

Obesity is characterized not only by excess fat near the surface of your body, but also excess fat in and around your internal organs.

The Reaven diet, named after Dr. Gerald Reaven, calls for 5 percent protein, 40 percent fat, 45 percent carbohydrates.12 Dr. Gerald Reaven spent many years researching Syndrome X, characterized by high blood cholesterol, obesity, insulin resistance and high blood pressure.

Plant - based diets appear to protect against metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, which is characterized by the so - called «deadly quartet,» abdominal obesity, high fasting sugars, high triglycerides, and high blood pressure.

Diabetes is also associated with metabolic syndrome, a medical disorder characterized by abdominal obesity, high fasting sugars, high triglycerides, and high blood pressure.

Plant - based diets appear to protect against metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, which is characterized by the so - called «deadly quartet» — abdominal obesity, high fasting sugars, high triglycerides, and high blood pressure.

Patients with insulin resistance and obesity, conditions characterized by high insulin levels are at high risk of all sorts of common cancers such as lung and colorectal.

The Prediabetic Epidemic Nutrition Science News ~ March 2001 Syndrome X, characterized by insulin resistance, is a prediabetic condition gaining increased scrutiny as America's obesity rates soar.

For a large proportion of the population, however, the effect of higher - carbohydrate diets, particularly those enriched in refined carbohydrates, coupled with the rising incidence of overweight and obesity, creates a metabolic state that can favor a worsening of the atherogenic dyslipidemia that is characterized by elevated triglycerides, reduced HDL cholesterol, and increased concentrations of small, dense LDL particles (6, 7).

This latter group has the latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA) form of type 1 diabetes, which is characterized by gradual β - cell destruction over months or years and is not associated with obesity (75).

Endophenotypes characterized by anxious attachment, poor impulse control, and hyperactive stress response can impact health behaviors and mental health and contribute to the development of many different chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease (Duric et al. 2016).