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Hospital Research Partnership Targets Obesity
Florida Hospital and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have teamed up with Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. to research and evaluate new drug therapies for obesity and its negative health consequences such as diabetes and heart disease, the three entities jointly announced.
“There is an epidemic of obesity in the US; two-thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese. These staggering statistics serve as a call for decisive action, including innovative bench-to-bedside translational research,” says Steven R. Smith, MD, scientific director of the Florida Hospital-Sanford-Burnham Translational Research Institute (TRI) for Metabolism and Diabetes, where the Florida Hospital work will be performed. “This partnership with Takeda, TRI and Sanford-Burnham represents a major milestone in the quest for a better understanding of obesity as a disease and a pathway forward for the development of safe and effective therapies.”
The Centers for Disease Control report that more than one-third of Americans are overweight and another one-third are obese. Obesity causes at least 112,000 premature deaths in the United States each year and reduces lifespan by up to eight years. Medical-related expenses attributable to obesity are projected to top $344 billion by 2018.
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cheverblog (2/24/2011 at 5:59 AM)
We all know that obesity most specially in the US is a serious case of disease and health problems.Taht's why it is good to hear that theres a very good action for this.Combating Obesity will be very helpful to lessen the emerging diseases.Heart disease and cancer are just some example of this deathly illnesses that cause by the excessive fat in the body which mainly results to obesity.That's why New lap band surgery recommendations have been issued by the <a title="Food and Drug Administration relaxes eligibility requirements for lap band surgery"href="http://www.newsytype.com/4320-fda-lap-band-surgery-guidelines/"> FDA</a>..And this Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI)will also be a great help for those hopeful ones.