excess weight

People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who lose excess weight soon after their diagnosis are up to twice as likely to maintain control of their disease than those who don't lose or who gain.

Obese women with most of their excess weight on the stomach, are more likely to get pancreatic cancer, research suggests.

Researchers have developed a new, lean mouse with characteristics suggesting that someday, using medication to manipulate a specific protein in humans could emerge as a strategy to treat obesity and disorders associated with excess weight, such as diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

To create the hybrid, scientists crossed mice deficient in protein kinase C beta with the C57 black mouse, a common animal used in research for studying diabetes and obesity.