Browsing by Subject "obesity"
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(2014-07-26)Department: PsychologyPrevious attempts to influence food intake have fallen short as rates of obesity continue to increase. Contributing to the increase are the myriad of factors that influence food intake including physiology, emotion, and ...
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(2015-12-18)Department: Nursing ScienceEconomic, educational, and social challenges in the United States have fostered continued reliance on the family for financial and emotional support amongst late adolescents (18-24 years of age): a health care trend known ...
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(2006-04-14)Department: PsychologyComplications of obesity resulting from hyperphagia remain the leading cause of death in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). This study introduces the Hyperphagia Questionnaire (HQ), a new 13-item, informant-based measure that ...
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(2015-11-19)Department: NeuroscienceDue to the escalating obesity epidemic in the United States, an important public health concern is the comorbidity of metabolic disorders and mental illness. Mounting clinical evidence supports the comorbid nature of mental ...
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(2013-09-30)Department: NeuroscienceObesity and obesity-associated disease together are a leading cause of death worldwide. Recent research demonstrates striking similarities between obesity and addiction in their dysregulation of brain dopamine systems. ...
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(2004-03-26)Department: PsychologyThe prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity in the United States is increasing at alarming rates and these rates vary between ethnicities. It was hypothesized that using an ecological model, childhood predictors leading ...
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(2018-07-22)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe phagocytic nature and oxidative resiliency of macrophages not only allows them to function as innate immune cells but also to respond to specific tissue needs, such as iron homeostasis. MFehi ATMs are a subtype of ...
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(2012-10-12)Department: Nursing ScienceNURSING SCIENCE ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION IN OBESE INDIVIDUALS WITH HEART FAILURE JOSHUA PHILLIP SQUIERS Dissertation under the direction of Professor Michael Vollman Heart failure (HF) is a severely ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Obesity is a serious disease that affects approximately 24 percent of the population in the United States. With obesity trends continually on the rise, it is important to identify and address the potential factors causing ...
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(2016-04-19)Department: EconomicsAt least half of personal health spending in the U.S. is related to behavior, lifestyle or other avoidable causes. This dissertation contributes to a recent growing literature which aims to understand what affects health ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyA comprehensive review of the state of food security in the United States with a specific focus on the communities in Nashville, Tennessee is presented in this thesis. Food insecurity is proposed as a mechanism by which ...
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(2015-04-01)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySouthern African American middle-aged men have high rates of obesity and premature mortality due to chronic illnesses. Different sources were brought together to perform a critical literature review to better understand ...
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(2019-03-15)Department: PharmacologyAdipose tissue (AT) is a dynamic endocrine organ that contributes to metabolic health. Proper function of resident immune cells is vital to AT function, and thus the pro-inflammatory AT environment during obesity contributes ...
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(2011-08-24)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe goal of this dissertation was to elucidate the metabolic and hepatocellular consequences associated with chronic consumption of a high-fat, high-fructose diet (HFFD), focusing on perturbations in the regulation of HGU ...
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(JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 2019-06-21)Mouse studies linking adropin, a peptide hormone encoded by the energy homeostasis-associated (ENHO) gene, to biological clocks and to glucose and lipid metabolism suggest a potential therapeutic target for managing diseases ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: Chemical EngineeringBiochemical methods to quantify gene transcript, enzyme, and metabolite levels are widely used to assess metabolic pathway regulation. Though informative and even vital in some contexts, static measurements of biomolecule ...
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(2016-06-06)Department: NeuroscienceBody weight is tightly controlled by the homeostatic feeding system, which is primarily reliant upon communication between the endocrine system and the brain. The endocrine system and brain are highly complex systems with ...
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(The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019-08-01)Metabolic complications relating to complex effects of viral and immune-mediated mechanisms are now a focus of clinical care among persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV), and obesity is emerging as a ...
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(2012-04-19)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation examines the impact of obesity on the labor market from a legal point of view. Previous scholars have documented a discrepancy between the wages of the obese and the non-obese that is particularly large ...
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(2019-04-17)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsErica JP Anderson Dissertation under the direction of Roger D Cone, PhD Energy stores in fat tissue are determined in part by the activity of the hypothalamic neurons expressing the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R). Even ...