TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 32, Issue 5 (May 2008)
Editorial
BMI and mortality: sorting through the data to find the public health message
J Stevens
Int J Obes 32: 727-729; doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.35
Original Articles
Past body mass index and risk of mortality among women
S C Moore, S T Mayne, B I Graubard, A Schatzkin, D Albanes, C Schairer, R N Hoover and M F Leitzmann
Int J Obes 32: 730-739; advance online publication, January 22, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803801
Adipocytokine and ghrelin levels in relation to cardiovascular disease risk factors in women at midlife: longitudinal associations
R P Wildman, P Mancuso, C Wang, M Kim, P E Scherer and M R Sowers
Int J Obes 32: 740-748; advance online publication, January 8, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803782
The contribution of childhood obesity to adult carotid intima-media thickness: the Bogalusa Heart Study
D S Freedman, D A Patel, S R Srinivasan, W Chen, R Tang, M G Bond and G S Berenson
Int J Obes 32: 749-756; advance online publication, January 29, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803798
Does the constellation of risk factors with and without abdominal adiposity associate with different cardiovascular mortality risk?
The DECODE Study Group
Int J Obes 32: 757-762; advance online publication, January 22, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803797
Matrix metalloproteinases 2 and 9 and their tissue inhibitors 1 and 2 in premenopausal obese women: relationship to cardiac function
W Kosmala, R Plaksej, M Przewlocka-Kosmala, J Kuliczkowska-Plaksej, G Bednarek-Tupikowska and W Mazurek
Int J Obes 32: 763-771; advance online publication, January 15, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803794
Circulating adiponectin levels associate with inflammatory markers, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome independent of obesity
J Hung, B M McQuillan, P L Thompson and J P Beilby
Int J Obes 32: 772-779; advance online publication, February 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803793
Altered body composition in type 2 diabetes mellitus
S Heshka, A Ruggiero, G A Bray, J Foreyt, S E Kahn, C E Lewis, M Saad and A V Schwartz the Look AHEAD Research Group
Int J Obes 32: 780-787; advance online publication, January 29, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803802
Epidemiological evidence of altered cardiac autonomic function in overweight but not underweight subjects
J-S Wu, F H Lu, Y-C Yang, T-S Lin, Y-H Huang, C-H Wu, J-J Chen and C-J Chang
Int J Obes 32: 788-794; advance online publication, January 29, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803791
Shared genetic basis for obstructive sleep apnea and adiposity measures
S R Patel, E K Larkin and S Redline
Int J Obes 32: 795-800; advance online publication, January 22, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803803
Short sleep duration and obesity: the role of emotional stress and sleep disturbances
A N Vgontzas, H-M Lin, M Papaliaga, S Calhoun, A Vela-Bueno, G P Chrousos and E O Bixler
Int J Obes 32: 801-809; advance online publication, February 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.4
Identification of omentin mRNA in human epicardial adipose tissue: comparison to omentin in subcutaneous, internal mammary artery periadventitial and visceral abdominal depots
J N Fain, H S Sacks, B Buehrer, S W Bahouth, E Garrett, R Y Wolf, R A Carter, D S Tichansky and A K Madan
Int J Obes 32: 810-815; advance online publication, January 8, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803790
Association analysis of positional obesity candidate genes based on integrated data from transcriptomics and linkage analysis
H Jiao, M Kaaman, E Dungner, J Kere, P Arner and I Dahlman
Int J Obes 32: 816-825; advance online publication, January 8, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803789
Obesity reduces the bioavailability of nitric oxide in juveniles
H-J Gruber, C Mayer, H Mangge, G Fauler, N Grandits and M Wilders-Truschnig
Int J Obes 32: 826-831; advance online publication, January 15, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803795
Shift in the composition of obesity in young adult men in Sweden over a third of a century
M Neovius, A Teixeira-Pinto and F Rasmussen
Int J Obes 32: 832-836; advance online publication, December 18, 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803784
Variability in adherence to an unsupervised exercise prescription in obese women
R C Colley, A P Hills, T M O'Moore-Sullivan, I J Hickman, J B Prins and N M Byrne
Int J Obes 32: 837-844; advance online publication, January 29, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803799
Allometric relationship between changes of visceral fat and total fat mass
C E Hallgreen and K D Hall
Int J Obes 32: 845-852; advance online publication, December 18, 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803783
Differences in adipocyte long chain fatty acid uptake in Osborne–Mendel and S5B/Pl rats in response to high-fat diets
O Petrescu, A F Cheema, X Fan, M W Bradbury and P D Berk
Int J Obes 32: 853-862; advance online publication, January 15, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803792
Effects of rimonabant, a cannabinoid CB1 receptor ligand, on energy expenditure in lean rats
I Kunz, M K Meier, A Bourson, M Fisseha and W Schilling
Int J Obes 32: 863-870; advance online publication, February 5, 2008; doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.3
Short Communication
High saturated-fat diet induces apoptosis in rat enterocytes and blunts GIP and insulin-secretive response to oral glucose load
D Gniuli, L Dalla Libera, M E Caristo, R Calvani, M Castagneto and G Mingrone
Int J Obes 32: 871-874; advance online publication, February 19, 2008; doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.9
Letters to the Editor
Simple examples should not be extrapolated to the US population
K M Flegal, B I Graubard, D F Williamson and M H Gail
Int J Obes 32: 875; advance online publication, January 15, 2008; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803788
