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BACKGROUND: This study was to estimate the change of obesity for 10 years (1997~2007) in korean adults, people who had undergone one biennial medical examinations which represent characteristics of Korean...
Alcohol is one of the major public health problems in Korea. Korea has one of the highest heavy drinking rates among OECD nations (63.4%) and drinking rates have increased even...
BACKGROUND: Visfatin is known to be secreted from visceral adipose tissue and have insulin-mimetic effect. Therefore, visfatin is considered to be related to obesity, especially central obesity, insulin resistance and...
BACKGROUND: Since the normal fasting plasma glucose level has decreased to below 100 mg/dL, the range for impaired fasting glucose (IFG) has expanded. Early detection and management of IFG in...
BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing prevalence of obesity in Korea, studies concerning resting energy expenditure are scarce. In this study, we tried to study the relationship between obesity and energy balance...
BACKGROUND: Obestain is a recently identified hormone that is encoded by ghrelin gene. The mean serum obestatin level, fasting level, and 2 hour after glucose loading level were measured in...