News tagged with liver fat


Apple or pear shape is not main culprit to heart woes -- it's liver fat

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

For years, pear-shaped people who carry weight in the thighs and backside have been told they are at lower risk for high blood pressure and heart disease than apple-shaped people who carry fat in the abdomen. But new findings ...


Fat in the liver -- not the belly -- is a better marker for disease risk

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

New findings from nutrition researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest that it's not whether body fat is stored in the belly that affects metabolic risk factors for diabetes, high blood triglycerides ...





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First adhere, then detach and glide forward

First adhere, then detach and glide forward

Medicine & Health / Research

created 12 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do one-celled parasites move from the salivary gland of a mosquito through a person's skin into red blood cells? What molecular mechanisms form the basis for this very important movement of the protozoa? ...


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Hatchery-raised salmon too crowded

Biology / Ecology

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Every year, large amounts of hatchery-raised young salmonids are released into Swedish rivers and streams to compensate for losses in natural production. Butthese fish generally survive poorly in the wild. ...


Could acetaminophen ease psychological pain?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Headaches and heartaches. Broken bones and broken spirits. Hurting bodies and hurt feelings. We often use the same words to describe physical and mental pain. Over-the-counter pain relieving drugs have long been used to alleviate ...


Use of 3-D imaging on patients with pancreatic carcinoma

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the field of hepatic imaging in the context of living liver donors and before complex partial liver resections, three-dimensional imaging of the liver, hepatic vessels and bile ducts has managed to become established in ...


Understanding relationship of proteins, fatty acids could help treat diseases

Understanding relationship of proteins, fatty acids could help treat diseases

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's widely understood that eating a diet high in saturated fats increases the risk for a long list of chronic and deadly diseases, including diabetes and coronary heart disease. Understanding ...


Is nicotinamide overload a trigger for type 2 diabetes?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Facing the increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes worldwide in the past few decades, one may ask what is wrong with humans. Geneticists tell us that the human genome has not changed markedly in such a short time. Therefore, ...


We now know that the brain controls the formation of bone

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created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The brain acts as a profound regulatory centre, controlling myriad processes throughout the body in ways we are only just beginning to understand. In new findings, Australian scientists have shown surprising connections between ...


Why don't robins get fat?

Why don't robins get fat?

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by the School of Biosciences is shedding light on the reasons why the European robin doesn’t get fat -even though they are feeding for much longer.


Gene therapy makes mice breath easier

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created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, descri ...


Appetite, consumption controlled by clockwork genes at cross-purposes in flies

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One of the pioneers in research on sleep:wake circadian genes, Amita Sehgal, Ph.D., has discovered that fruit flies' appetite and consumption are controlled by two rival sets of clocks, one in neurons and the other in the ...



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