Tag: obesity

Obesity can cause depression, enhancing chances of emotional eating: Psychiatrist

5Feb

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Obesity can cause depression, enhancing chances of emotional eating: Psychiatrist

New Delhi, February 05, 2025.Obesity leads to body-image issues and can cause mood swings, anxiety, depression and self-isolation, which enhance the chances of emotional eating leading to difficulty in weight management, according to a psychiatrist from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here.Obesity not only affects the physical health of a person by causing a range of diseases but also impacts the mental well-being, said Dr Nand Kumar, psychiatrist at the premier hospital.Obesity can lead to health issues, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart problems and kidney and obstructive sleep disorder, he said.

Faulty genes linked to obesity in women, had no effect in men

4Aug

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Faulty genes linked to obesity in women, had no effect in men

New Delhi, August 04, 2023.Faulty variants of three genes have been linked to obesity-related conditions, while having no effect on men, shedding light on new biological pathways underlying obesity, according to a new study."There are a million and one reasons why we should be thinking about sex, age, and other specific mechanisms rather than just lumping everyone together and assuming that disease mechanism works the same way for everyone," said senior author John Perry, a geneticist and professor at the University of Cambridge, UK.The research team sequenced the exome - protein-coding part of the genome - of more than 4,14,000 adults from the UK Biobank study and looked at variants, or mutations, within genes associated with body mass index (BMI) in men and women, respectivel...