Feeding behavior is integrated within a wide variety of eating behaviors, which depend on
psychosocial, biological and environmental factors. These types of behavior can cause …

Child eating self-regulation refers to behaviors that enable children to start and stop eating
in a manner consistent with maintaining energy balance. Perturbations in these behaviors …

Obesity is a multifactorial disease caused by the interaction of genetic and environmental
factors related to lifestyle aspects. It has been shown that reduced sleep is associated with …

Objective: Psychosocial stress can be a health threat by stimulating unhealthier eating
behaviors. We aim to test the role of the hormone leptin in the association between stress …

Background Adipokine leptin plays a crucial role in metabolic and reproductive functions.
Leptin receptor has a soluble form that binds to leptin, thus modulating its level in the …

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease that is characterized by
impaired glucose metabolism and insulin resistance. The objectives of the study were to …

The purposes of this study were to examine concentrations of leptin and biochemical
parameters in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) patients and normal glucose tolerance …

Background Polymorphisms in genes encoding proteins of the leptin-melanocortin pathway
have been associated with obesity. The involvement of these polymorphisms with changes …

Abstract Polymorphisms in the Fat Mass and Obesity Associated (FTO) gene are robustly
associated with overweight and obesity among children, although the underlying …

La obesidad es una enfermedad inflamatoria, crónica, recurrente, progresiva y de etiología
multifactorial, que afecta a más 650 millones de personas en el mundo. La carga física …