A Nation Under Pressure: The Public Health Consequences of Stress in America
Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Therapies· Explore potential contributors to stress levels in America· Discuss the individual and population level health effects of chronic stress· Identify evidence-based strategies for managing chronic stress
Stress levels are high in the United States. In a 2015 national survey, 24 percent of adults reported extreme stress, an increase from 18 percent just one year earlier. About one-third reported their stress had increased over the past year; less than half as many said it had decreased. The top sources of stress were money, work, and family r...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (Day 2)
Obesity is a major contributor to serious health conditions in children and adults. The prevalence of obesity in the United States and globally has grown rapidly in the last three decades; thus, there is a pressing need to help people achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Obesity is commonly defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30. In 2014, more than one-third (37.7%) of U.S. adults (Flegal, 2016 ) and 17% of U.S. children and young adults under the age of 20 (Ogden, 2016 ) met this definition, accounting for about 55% of the total U.S. population. There are also persistent disparities among ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (Day 1)
Obesity is a major contributor to serious health conditions in children and adults. The prevalence of obesity in the United States and globally has grown rapidly in the last three decades; thus, there is a pressing need to help people achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Obesity is commonly defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30. In 2014, more than one-third (37.7%) of U.S. adults (Flegal, 2016 ) and 17% of U.S. children and young adults under the age of 20 (Ogden, 2016 ) met this definition, accounting for about 55% of the total U.S. population. There are also persistent disparities among ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Obesity and Breast Cancer - Challenges and Opportunities
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds is a weekly lecture series addressing current research in clinical and molecular oncology. Speakers are leading national and international researchers and clinicians.Air date: 3/24/2017 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Focus on You Wellness Lecture: The Role of Sleep in Health
Focus on you wellness lecture
Health and wellness lecture in observance of American Heart Month.
Are you not getting enough sleep? If so, join the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's (NHBLI) foremost expert on sleep research, Michael J. Twery, Ph.D., to learn what's at stake for your heart — and what you can do to get your sleep on track.
Learn how inadequate sleep affects your body chemistry. Did you know that your heart and blood vessels lose some of their ability to fight damage? Did you also know that not enough sleep can lead to stress, overeating, weight gain and even obesity? Dr. Twery will also talk about...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine 2017: Obesity: Brown and Other Fat
The Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series is designed to help bridge the gap between advances in biology and their applications to major human diseases. Each lecture will feature a presentation on a major disease, including current research and advancements on treatments.For more information go tohttps://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.govAir date: 3/28/2017 4:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 23, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Group 1 innate lymphoid cells in metabolic disease
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are the most recently identified arm of the innate immune system that function to protect epithelial barriers against pathogens and maintain tissue homeostasis. Although ILCs can also promote pathology at mucosal sites such as the gut or lung, it remains unknown whether aberrant activation of tissue-resident ILCs can contribute to disease in non-barrier tissues. Here, we identify a subset of long-term adipose-resident ILC1 that are dependent on the transcription factors Nfil3 and T-bet, but phenotypically and functionally distinct from circulating mature...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 17, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Indigenous group add to evidence tying cesarean birth to obesity.
Amanda Veile, an assistant professor of biological anthropology, found that the size of the mother and the method of delivery predict child growth patterns through age 5 in the Yucatec Maya. Her findings, with co-author Karen Kramer of the University of Utah, were published in the American Journal ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 9, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: video
Feeling heavy, light, or about right? Research finds genes may be to blame.
Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny? Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 29, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: video
The epigenetic clock, biological age, and chronic diseases
NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
It has been a long standing goal to develop molecular biomarkers of biological age. Recent studies demonstrate that powerful epigenetic biomarkers of aging can be defined based on DNA methylation levels. For example, the epigenetic clock (PMID: 24138928) is a multivariate age estimation method that applies to sorted cell types (CD4T cells or neurons), complex tissues, and organs and even prenatal brain samples. The epigenetic clock is an attractive biomarker of aging because a) it applies to most human and chimpanzee tissues, b) its accurate measurement of chronological ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 31, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Long Non-coding RNAs and the Homeostasis of Innate Immune Cells
Immunology Interest Group
Jorge Henao-Mejia obtained his M.D. in 2005 from the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia and his Ph.D. in 2009 from Indiana University, Indianapolis. He was a post-doctoral fellow with Richard Flavell at Yale University, where he studied the interactions between the immune system and metabolism in the context of health and obesity. Since summer 2014, he has been on the Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research aims to understand the role of the innate immune system in the development of metabolic syndrome, and to comprehend the metabolic pathways that are necessary ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 1, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
CC Grand Rounds: Thyroid Cancer: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Paradigm Shift: When Less is More and (2) Facts and Myths on the Role of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) in Thyroid Cancer
Presented by: (1) Monica Skarulis, MD, Chief, Clinical Endocrine Section, Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIH and (2) Joanna Klubo-Gwiezdzinska, MD, PhD Clinical Fellow, Clinical Endocrine Section, Endocrinology and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIHCategory: Clinical Center Grand RoundsAired date: 02/24/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 25, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Dissecting branching morphogenesis and coordinated wiring of the vascular and nervous systems
Director's Seminar Series
Branching morphogenesis is a fundamental attribute of many organs. As examples of highly informative model systems, we have focused our studies on two major branching networks, the vascular and nervous systems, which share several anatomical and functional characteristics, and are often patterned similarly in peripheral tissues. Combining high-resolution whole-mount imaging, advanced genetic perturbations, and in vitro organ culture techniques, we are elucidating, at molecular level, how sensory nerves controls vascular branching morphogenesis and how sympathetic nerves are guided by neighboring ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
CC Grand Rounds: (1) Effect of Non-glycemic Factors on Hemoglobin A1c Measurements and (2) Moving Beyond A1C to Detect Glycemia in African Descent Populations
Presented by: (1) David B. Sacks, MB, ChB ,Chief, Clinical Chemistry Service, Department of Laboratory Medicine, CC, NIH and (2)Anne E. Sumner, MD, Section Chief, Section on Ethnicity and Health, Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIHCategory: Clinical Center Grand RoundsAired date: 01/20/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 20, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
CC Grand Rounds: (1) Homeostatic Control of Calorie Intake in Humans and its Role in Obesity Treatment and (2) Human Brown Adipose Tissue and Its Role in Treatment of Metabolic Diseases
Presented by: (1) Kevin Hall, PhD, Senior Investigator, Integrative Physiology Section, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH and (2) Aaron M. Cypess, MD, PhD, Investigator and Acting Section Chief, Translational Physiology Section, Diabetes, EndocrinologCategory: Clinical Center Grand RoundsAired date: 01/06/2016 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
