ABSTRACT OSA is increasingly recognized as a major health problem in developed
countries. Obesity is the most common risk factor in OSA and hence, the prevalence of OSA …

Most of the literature related to high altitude medicine is devoted to the short-term effects of
high-altitude exposure on human physiology. However, long-term effects of living at high …

Background: The macrogeographic distribution of obesity in the United States, including the
association between elevation and body mass index (BMI), is largely unexplained. This …

Objectives Intermittent hypoxia (IH), resulted from recurring episodes of upper airway
obstruction, is the hallmark feature and the most important pathophysiologic pathway of …

The reason for high altitude anorexia is unclear but could involve alterations in the appetite
hormones ghrelin and peptide YY (PYY). This study examined the effect of resting and …

Obesity is a major global health issue and a primary risk factor for metabolic-related
disorders. While physical inactivity is one of the main contributors to obesity, it is a …

This study investigated the effects of continuous moderate-intensity exercise (MIE) and high-
intensity interval exercise (HIIE) in combination with short exposure to hypoxia on appetite …

Teleostean leptin was first cloned in 2005, more than a decade after the discovery of
mammalian leptin. The reason for this delay lies in the very poor primary sequence …

Obesity is nowadays a major public health problem. The World Health Organization reported
that globally 400million adults are obese, and the situation seems to raise in the future …

Obesity is an important health problem caused by positive energy balance. Generally, low
calorie dietary intake combined with regular exercise is the most common modality to lose …