Obesity has become one of the biggest threats to global health, as it frequently co-occurs with a constellation of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and is associated with increased mortality. Genetic factors account for a substantial portion of the phenotypic variance in obesity and each of the correlated vascular disease risk factors. In this thesis, I describe the identification of several common genetic variants that predispose carriers to the complications associated with obesity. First, I report the identification of common variation within the gene of a protein secreted by visceral adipose tissue, visfatin, and demonstrate the influence of these variants on the inter-individual variation in fasting i...
The incretin system has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion in a glucose dependent manner and ...
Until recently, progress in identification of the genetic variants influencing predisposition to com...
Type 2 diabetes is more common in non-Europeans and starts at a younger age and at lower BMI cut-off...
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are causally related, yet there is considerable heterogeneity in the con...
Abstract Background A complex set of perturbations occur in cytokines and hormones in the etiopathog...
The prevalence of obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of ?30, and type 2 diabetes is rising ...
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Overweight and obesity have adverse metabolic effects on blood pressure, blood lipids and insulin re...
Obesity is one of the major health concerns that has reached epidemic proportions globally. It is ge...
Obesity and diabetes are two of the most prevalent health problems in the world. The incidences of t...
Obesity, caused by an excessive accumulation of body fat due to a chronic energy surplus, is a serio...
A common variant, rs9939609, in the FTO (fat mass and obesity) gene is associated with adiposity in ...
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: FTO harbours the strongest known obesity-susceptibility locus in Europeans. While t...
Obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) have strong genetic components. Identification of susceptibility g...
Obesity is an important driver of many cardiometabolic disorders (CMDs), including type 2 diabetes (...
The incretin system has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion in a glucose dependent manner and ...
Until recently, progress in identification of the genetic variants influencing predisposition to com...
Type 2 diabetes is more common in non-Europeans and starts at a younger age and at lower BMI cut-off...
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are causally related, yet there is considerable heterogeneity in the con...
Abstract Background A complex set of perturbations occur in cytokines and hormones in the etiopathog...
The prevalence of obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of ?30, and type 2 diabetes is rising ...
To access publisher's full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional...
Overweight and obesity have adverse metabolic effects on blood pressure, blood lipids and insulin re...
Obesity is one of the major health concerns that has reached epidemic proportions globally. It is ge...
Obesity and diabetes are two of the most prevalent health problems in the world. The incidences of t...
Obesity, caused by an excessive accumulation of body fat due to a chronic energy surplus, is a serio...
A common variant, rs9939609, in the FTO (fat mass and obesity) gene is associated with adiposity in ...
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: FTO harbours the strongest known obesity-susceptibility locus in Europeans. While t...
Obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) have strong genetic components. Identification of susceptibility g...
Obesity is an important driver of many cardiometabolic disorders (CMDs), including type 2 diabetes (...
The incretin system has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion in a glucose dependent manner and ...
Until recently, progress in identification of the genetic variants influencing predisposition to com...
Type 2 diabetes is more common in non-Europeans and starts at a younger age and at lower BMI cut-off...