University of Manchester - Archive (Obesity)
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2019
27
March
2019
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14:29
Europe/London
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One in five children in England are overweight by the time they start primary school. Nationally, children are weighed and measured, aged four to five, during their first year of school. But findings from our new study su...
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26
March
2019
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06:53
Europe/London
Children monitored regularly for height and weight from an early age are less likely to be overweight according to research by University of Manchester and Oxford experts.
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2018
11
September
2018
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16:00
Europe/London
Research conducted in part at The University of Manchester has found that mothers with elevated blood glucose during pregnancy – even if not high enough to meet the traditional definition of gestational diabetes – were significantly more likely to ha...
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27
March
2018
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14:00
Europe/London
Obese women are less likely to breastfeed according to a review of 20 research papers by health psychologists and midwives from The University of Manchester.
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2017
17
March
2017
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10:00
Europe/London
Immune cells which are reduced in number by obesity could be a new target to treat diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension that affect overweight people, according to a collaborative study between The University of Manchester, Lund Universi...
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2016
19
December
2016
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17:00
Europe/London
A team of American and British scientists have for the first time discovered genetic connections between sleep disturbance and a range of medical disorders including obesity.
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15
December
2016
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01:00
Europe/London
This year is ending on a high note for researchers working in the cancer field here in Manchester. With today’s announcement of more than £42m of investment from Cancer Research UK, the city is now firmly established among the world’s elite for findi...
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07
November
2016
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14:03
Europe/London
Substantial weight gain over many years increases the risk of obesity-related cancers in men by 50 percent and in women by almost 20 percent, according to new research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute’s (NCRI) Cancer Conference in ...
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20
April
2016
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16:41
Europe/London
Women who had a caesarean section in a previous pregnancy are much more likely to have a vaginal birth if their antenatal care is led by a midwife, according to a new study from The University of Manchester.
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08
April
2016
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10:15
Europe/London
As the World Health Organization warns of an ‘unrelenting march of diabetes’ with 422 million cases in 2014, an experts from The University of Manchester have reacted to the problem and suggest some ways to address the obesity epidemic that fuels it....
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03
February
2016
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09:45
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a new genetic syndrome of obesity, over-eating, mental and behavioural problems in six families, from across the world.
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19
January
2016
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14:14
Europe/London
More than 2.6 million stillbirths continue to occur globally every year with very slow progress made to tackle this ‘silent problem’, according to new research published in The Lancet, and co-authored by Dr Alexander Heazell from the Tommy’s Stillbir...
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2015
09
December
2015
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11:09
Europe/London
Some 61 million rural children left behind by parents moving to China’s booming urban centres are at risk from increased fat and reduced protein in their diets
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02
September
2015
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16:37
Europe/London
Leaders across healthcare research, academia and industry have today, Wednesday 2 September, come together to launch a unique partnership.
Health Innovation Manchester will speed up the discovery, development and delivery of innovative solutio...
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09
June
2015
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17:30
Europe/London
A University of Manchester research centre has been awarded World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre status for its work on improving the health of people across Europe and in the Greater Manchester area.
Following a launch event yesterday (...
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30
April
2015
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11:38
Europe/London
The mechanism by which embryos receive nutrition during the first 11 weeks of pregnancy has been revealed by University of Manchester scientists.
Writing in this month’s edition of the journal Placenta, they show how glucose and other nutrien...
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23
March
2015
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11:49
Europe/London
A national group of researchers, medical bodies and charities, led by The University of Manchester is looking for help in setting the top priorities for fighting womb cancer, with a survey launched today (23 March 2015). The Womb Cancer Alliance, a c...
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27
February
2015
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10:08
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has welcomed the news of proposals for the integration of health and social care services in Greater Manchester, providing more opportunities for the benefit of local people.
President and Vice-Chancellor, Profess...
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2014
05
December
2014
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10:56
Europe/London
Treating type 2 diabetes costs the NHS £8.8bn each year and despite being largely preventable its prevalence continues to increase. In Salford, one in ten men over the age of 60 has diabetes. A major driver for the development of diabetes is obesity,...
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04
September
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered that the body clock plays an important role in body fat. Their findings are helping develop new ways of treating obesity and the fatal diseases linked to being overweight.
The researchers,...
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04
September
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
The current way of diagnosing type-2 diabetes using blood glucose levels needs to be urgently revised, research by scientists from The University of Manchester and King’s College London suggests.
The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE tod...
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10
July
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester are a step closer to understanding why diabetes is cured in the majority of patients that undergo gastric bypass surgery.
The research, published in the journal Endocrinology, shows the cure is likely to ...
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14
May
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
Two major new research centres at The University of Manchester aimed at improving the lives of people with arthritis are to be officially launched on May 19.
Leading medical research charity Arthritis Research UK is investing almost £5m over the...
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09
April
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
Patients in Manchester are to benefit from a new Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair in Clinical Nursing Practice Research to follow the celebrated social reformer’s role reviewing and developing evidence to deliver the highest quality care to pati...
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02
April
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
Obese people who have stomach surgery to help them lose weight will halve their risk of heart attack according to new research from a team of doctors at The University of Manchester, University of East Anglia and University of Aberdeen.
The proc...
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26
March
2014
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00:00
Europe/London
Scientists have shown for the first time that a chemical in the brain called galanin is involved in the risk of developing depression.
And the research, undertaken by a European research team, points to a strong reason to develop drugs that modify...
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21
March
2014
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00:00
Europe/London
Researchers from The University of Manchester have discovered a new mechanism that governs how body clocks react to changes in the environment.
And the discovery, which is being published in Current Biology, could provide a solution for alleviatin...
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26
February
2014
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00:00
Europe/London
Health experts from around the world will be descending on Manchester next month to discuss ways to improve the health of people who live in cities.
The city has been chosen to host The 11th International Conference on Urban Health following in th...
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12
February
2014
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00:00
Europe/London
New research looking at the biological process involved in breast cancer development has strengthened the argument for a potential link between alcohol consumption and the disease.
Scientists from The University of Manchester – part of the Manches...
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21
January
2014
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00:00
Europe/London
Public health researchers from The University of Manchester have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in childhood obesity.
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