Obesity Abstracts

Sarcopenic obesity (SO) represents a new challenge due to the parallel increase of obesity and life expectancy. In fact the excess of fat mass and the decrease in muscle mass that characterise SO are frequent during the ageing process due, in particular to gender, degree of adiposity, diseases-related alterations, and age-related hormonal changes. At the moment a universal consensus for its diagnosis does not exist and different procedures, parameters and cut-off points have b...

Obesity and related co-morbidities are major global public health issues, and thus the focus of significant research effort. Recent research using cutting edge techniques including optogenetics and chemogenetics has made major new discoveries regarding the systems that control food intake. We are beginning to understand that peripheral hormonal and neural systems that communicate macronutrient ingestion and wider nutritional state to the centres in the brain that regulate appe...

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