This research was recently published in the journal Diabetes (May 2011, vol. 60 no. 5 1474-1477). Undertaken by Mittendorfer, Horowitz, DePaoli, et al. the purpose of the study was to determine whether leptin treatment has weight loss–independent effects on insulin action in obese subjects with type 2 diabetes. The study concluded that r-Met hu leptin does [...]

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine measured the risk of cardiovascular risk factors in non-overweight adults who were overweight/obese as children by analyzing data from four prospective cohort studies that measured childhood and adult body-mass index (BMI). As expected, adults with consistently higher BMI from childhood to adulthood were at higher [...]