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Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc

Christos Mantzoros is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He serves as the Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Boston VA Healthcare System and the Director of the Human Nutrition Unit of the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Joslin Diabetes Center.
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Metabolic syndrome in a Mediterranean pediatric cohort: prevalence using International Diabetes Federation–derived criteria and associations with adiponectin and leptin
February 2012(Vol. 61 | No. 2 | Pages 140-145)
Constantina Papoutsakis, Mary Yannakoulia, Ioanna Ntalla, George V. Dedoussis

Effects of high-fat diet and regular aerobic exercise on global gene expression in skeletal muscle of C57BL/6 mice
February 2012(Vol. 61 | No. 2 | Pages 146-152)
Li Fu, Xiaolei Liu, Yanmei Niu, Hairui Yuan, Ning Zhang, Ehud Lavi

Acute resistance exercise augments integrative myofibrillar protein synthesis
February 2012(Vol. 61 | No. 2 | Pages 153-156)
Heath G. Gasier, James D. Fluckey, Stephen F. Previs, Michael P. Wiggs, Steven E. Riechman

The effect of gonadal and adrenal steroid therapy on skeletal health in adolescents and young women with anorexia nervosa
18 January 2012
Amy D. DiVasta, Henry A. Feldman, Courtney Giancaterino, Clifford J. Rosen, Meryl S. LeBoff, Catherine M. Gordon
Abstract: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by subnormal estrogen and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) levels. We sought to determine whether the combination of DHEA + estrogen/progestin is superior...
Energy content of weight loss: kinetic features during voluntary caloric restriction
18 January 2012
Steven B. Heymsfield, Diana Thomas, Corby K. Martin, Leanne M. Redman, Boyd Strauss, Anja Bosy-Westphal, Manfred J. Müller, Wei Shen, Allison Martin Nguyen
Abstract: The classic rule stating that restricting intake by 3500 kcal/wk will lead to a 1-lb/wk rate of weight loss has come under intense scrutiny. Generally not a component of most weight loss pre...
Stress during childhood and adolescence: how to combat?
16 January 2012
Srijit Das
I read with much interest the published manuscript entitled “Metabolic consequences of stress during childhood and adolescence” by Pervanidou and Chrousos . The authors have rightly cited facts regard...
Diabetes, insulin use, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma mortality in Taiwan
11 January 2012
Chin-Hsiao Tseng
Abstract: The objective was to evaluate non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) mortality trends and mortality rate ratios between diabetes patients and the general population, and to study NHL risk factors among ...
Correction of metabolic abnormalities in a rodent model of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes mellitus by inhibitors of hepatic protein kinase C–ι
09 January 2012
Mini P. Sajan, Sonali Nimal, Stephen Mastorides, Mildred Acevedo-Duncan, C. Ronald Kahn, Alan P. Fields, Ursula Braun, Michael Leitges, Robert V. Farese
Abstract: Excessive activity of hepatic atypical protein kinase (aPKC) is proposed to play a critical role in mediating lipid and carbohydrate abnormalities in obesity, the metabolic syndrome, and typ...

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