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Over the past 20 years, obesity has reached epidemic proportions and become a serious public health issue in this country in adults as well as children, who have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight adults.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
At NYU Winthrop Hospital, basic scientists and clinicians are collaborating to investigate mechanisms responsible for the development of cardiovascular complications in a wide range of conditions, including obesity. Examining the regulation of certain signaling proteins in obesity, they are using a variety of biochemical methodologies, including molecular biology, array technology, tissue culture, histopathology and transgenic animals in their research. Current studies include: links between obesity and diabetes, intrauterine growth restriction and the propensity toward obesity, alterations in cytokine and gene expression in obesity, obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and animal models of obesity and bone loss. We are collaborating with other NYC area academic medical centers to design and implement school-based lifestyle improvement programs for children and teens.
Siham Accacha, M.D.
Barbara George, EdD
Alan Jacobson, M.D.
Robert Levine, M.D.
Louis Ragolia, Ph.D.
Lawrence Shapiro, M.D.