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Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Research
Weight issues among minority children and adolescents pose some of the most pressing public health problems in the United States. Preliminary studies at Children's National show 38 percent of Hispanic Americans and 40 percent of African American children and adolescents are obese. Obesity is closely linked to both psychosocial and medical complications, including type 2 diabetes. Many of the obese children studied at Children's have metabolic syndrome, which dramatically increases the chances of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes late in life.
Washington DC, has one of the highest rates of pediatric obesity in the country. As a result, scientists, as well as other clinical physicians and psychologists, have joined together to research all aspects of the disease through Children’s National Obesity Institute. Our team is learning more about:
- Metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.
- Exercise intervention in overweight minority adolescents.
- The effect of low glycemic load diets in Latino children at risk for type 2 diabetes.
- The effect of an exercise intervention program in insulin-resistant minority adolescents.
- The study of exercise/insulin-related muscle Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) in the predisposition toward T2D in minority children.
- “Start Early, Start Right,” an intervention to prevent and treat obesity among Latino preschoolers ages 2 to 4 years.
Faculty who study obesity and metabolic syndrome
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For more information, contact Denice Cora-Bramble, MD, MBA or Evan Nadler, MD.
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