Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: abdominal obesity http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Stress during pregnancy leads to abdominal obesity in mice offspring A new report involving mice suggests that a relationship exists between maternal metabolic or psychological stress and the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome in her offspring. What's more, the report shows that if the stress cannot be reduced or eliminated, manipulating the neuropeptide Y (NPY) system in visceral fat may prevent maternal stress-induced obesity from occurring in the next generation. This discovery is reported in the August 2012 issue of The FASEB Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-stress-pregnancy-abdominal-obesity-mice.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:52:19 EST news262950696 Pre-pregnancy BMI important indicator of offspring obesity (HealthDay) -- Maternal gestational weight gain (GWG) during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy correlates with body mass index (BMI)-based overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity at age 16, but maternal pre-pregnancy BMI is a stronger indicator of offspring obesity, according to a study published in the May issue of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pre-pregnancy-bmi-important-indicator-offspring.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:00:01 EST news253852790 Vitamin D study suggests no mortality benefit for older women Doctors agree that vitamin D promotes bone health, but a belief that it can also prevent cancer, cardiovascular disease and other causes of death has been a major health controversy. Consistent with advice issued last fall by the Institute of Medicine, a new study finds that vitamin D did not confer benefits against mortality in postmenopausal women after controlling for key health factors such as abdominal obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-vitamin-d-mortality-benefit-older.html Health Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:13:54 EST news239361203 One in five Canadians has metabolic syndrome Approximately one in five Canadians has metabolic syndrome — a combination of risk factors for diabetes and heart disease — according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-canadians-metabolic-syndrome.html Health Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:22:08 EST news235048902