Conference on Obesity

描述（由申请人提供）： 发达国家和发展中国家肥胖症流行率的迅速增加对个人健康及其国家的医疗经济构成了重大威胁。肥胖是2型糖尿病、血脂异常、高血压和中风的主要原因，在某些癌症中所占比例也越来越大。在过去的十年里，在阐明控制体重和组成的分子遗传学和分子生理学方面取得了令人印象深刻的进展。但这 对这一疾病的了解尚未转化为成功的预防或治疗方法。同样，肥胖与上述大多数医学后遗症之间关系的分子基础仍然未知。 本次会议的目的是将致力于哺乳动物和其他生物体能量稳态的分子遗传学和生理学的科学家与寻求了解系统生理学和环境方面的研究人员聚集在一起，这些方面与明确的遗传倾向相互作用，以增加患病率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rapid increase in the prevalence of obesity in developed and developing countries constitutes a major threat to the health of individuals, and the medical economics of their countries. Obesity accounts for major fractions of type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemias, hypertension and stroke, and a growing proportion of certain cancers. The past decade has seen impressive advances in the elucidation of the molecular genetics and molecular physiology of the control of body weight and composition. However, this understanding has not yet been translated into successful preventive or therapeutic approaches to the disease. Likewise, the molecular bases for the relationship of obesity to most of the medical sequelae mentioned above remain unknown. The purpose of this meeting will be to bring together scientists working on the molecular genetics and physiology of energy homeostasis in mammalian and other organisms with investigators seeking to understand aspects of the systemic physiology and environment that are interacting with clear genetic predisposition to increase the prevalence.