TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 27, Issue 10 (October 2003)
Reviews
Association studies of genetic polymorphisms in central obesity: a critical review FREE
R Rosmond
Int J Obes 27: 1141-1151; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802397
Effect of sensory perception of foods on appetite and food intake: a review of studies on humans FREE
L B Sørensen, P Møller, A Flint, M Martens and A Raben
Int J Obes 27: 1152-1166; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802391
Papers
Clinical and cost effectiveness of surgery for morbid obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation FREE
A Clegg, J Colquitt, M Sidhu, P Royle and A Walker
Int J Obes 27: 1167-1177; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802394
Adipocyte functions are modulated by cell size change: potential involvement of an integrin/ERK signalling pathway FREE
C Farnier, S Krief, M Blache, F Diot-Dupuy, G Mory, P Ferre and R Bazin
Int J Obes 27: 1178-1186; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802399
Effects of hypoxia on the expression of proangiogenic factors in differentiated 3T3-F442A adipocytes FREE
K Lolmède, V Durand de Saint Front, J Galitzky, M Lafontan and A Bouloumié
Int J Obes 27: 1187-1195; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802407
Insulin resistance induces hyperleptinemia, cardiac contractile dysfunction but not cardiac leptin resistance in ventricular myocytes FREE
K K Hintz, N S Aberle II and J Ren
Int J Obes 27: 1196-1203; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802389
Pro-opiomelanocortin gene is associated with serum leptin levels in lean but not in obese individuals FREE
E Suviolahti, M Ridderstråle, P Almgren, M Klannemark, O Melander, E Carlsson, M Carlsson, J Hedenbro and M Orho-Melander
Int J Obes 27: 1204-1211; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802392
Fat oxidation, body composition and insulin sensitivity in diabetic and normoglycaemic obese adults 5 years after weight loss FREE
A M Poynten, T P Markovic, E L Maclean, S M Furler, J Freund, D J Chisholm and L V Campbell
Int J Obes 27: 1212-1218; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802393
Cigarette smoking is associated with energy balance in premenopausal African-American adult women differently than in similarly aged white women FREE
L H Clemens, R C Klesges, D L Slawson and A J Bush
Int J Obes 27: 1219-1226; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802400
Obesity and health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional analysis of the US population FREE
M K Hassan, A V Joshi, S S Madhavan and M M Amonkar
Int J Obes 27: 1227-1232; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802396
Health-related quality of life in obese outpatients losing weight with very-low-energy diet and behaviour modification—a 2-y follow-up study FREE
J Kaukua, T Pekkarinen, T Sane and P Mustajoki
Int J Obes 27: 1233-1241; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802379
Consumption of a controlled low-fat diet containing olestra for 9 months improves health risk factors in conjunction with weight loss in obese men: the Ole' Study FREE
J C Lovejoy, G A Bray, M Lefevre, S R Smith, M M Most, Y M Denkins, J Volaufova, J C Rood, A L Eldridge and J C Peters
Int J Obes 27: 1242-1249; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802373
Effect of lifestyle changes on whole-body protein turnover in obese adolescents FREE
P Balagopal, E Bayne, B Sager, L Russell, N Patton and D George
Int J Obes 27: 1250-1257; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802388
Longitudinal study of skipping breakfast and weight change in adolescents FREE
C S Berkey, H R H Rockett, M W Gillman, A E Field and G A Colditz
Int J Obes 27: 1258-1266; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802402
Sonographic measurement of mesenteric fat thickness is a good correlate with cardiovascular risk factors: comparison with subcutaneous and preperitoneal fat thickness, magnetic resonance imaging and anthropometric indexes FREE
K H Liu, Y L Chan, W B Chan, W L Kong, M O Kong and J C N Chan
Int J Obes 27: 1267-1273; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802398
Birth size, early childhood growth, and adolescent obesity in a Brazilian birth cohort FREE
P O A Monteiro, C G Victora, F C Barros and L M A Monteiro
Int J Obes 27: 1274-1282; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802409
Metabolic Syndrome: epidemiology and more extensive phenotypic description. Cross-sectional data from the Bruneck Study FREE
E Bonora, S Kiechl, J Willeit, F Oberhollenzer, G Egger, R C Bonadonna and M Muggeo
Int J Obes 27: 1283-1289; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0802381
