Before a baby is ever born, critical supply chain problems with nutrition and oxygen can result in premature birth or even death and increase the child and mother's lifelong risk of cardiovascular ...

Scientists have found that a midgestation increase in the hormone leptin, which most of us associate with appetite suppression, produces problematic blood vessel dysfunction and restriction of the ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 23, 2022) – Before a baby is ever born, critical supply chain problems with nutrition and oxygen can result in premature birth or even death and increase the child and mother’s ...

New research is more closely linking obesity to dementia. Higher levels of leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in ...

The authors discussed a polymorphism of the LEP gene associated not only with cancer, but also with chronic diseases including obesity and diabetes, offering them a reason to look into the ...

Leptin is significantly associated with body mass index. Questions have been raised as to whether leptin has an impact on malnutrition in this population. Leptin is a hormone that is released from ...

The risk of early-onset breast cancer, particularly luminal A and triple-negative subtypes, was higher in Black women with obesity and high leptin levels compared with White women. This research ...

Plasma leptin levels were linked with Alzheimer's disease PET pathology in cognitively unimpaired older adults in Korea. Lower baseline leptin was associated with a greater increase in tau over 2 ...