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Diabetes, Metabolism, and Obesity (14)

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Body Composition / Comorbidity of Obesity in Chinese Children
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Project in collaboration with Dr. Dympna Gallagher, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's Hospital. Correlating differences in body composition with comorbidity of childhood obesity in Chinese . . . More »

Project Leader
Deckelbaum, Richard

Location
China

Project
Body Composition / Metabolism / Obesity: China
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of ethnicity, obesity, and their physiologic/metabolic features. . . . More »

Project Leader
Heymsfield, Steven

Location
China

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Body Composition / Metabolism / Obesity: South Korea
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of ethnicity, obesity, and their phyiologic/metabolic factors. . . . More »

Project Leader
Heymsfield, Steven

Location
Korea (south)

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Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk-Factors in Korean Adults
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Using DXA as a body-composition measurement tool available to Dr. Park, we will compare fat distribution in relation to CV risk factors in Koreans versus our New York samples. . . . More »

Project Leader
Gallagher, Dympna

Location
Korea (south)

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Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Tanner 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Study of body composition and cardiovascular risk factors in children. . . . More »

Project Leader
Gallagher, Dympna

Location
China

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Cancer in the Jerusalem Perinatal Study
Mailman School of Public Health

The Jerusalem Perinatal Study is a population-based cohort of mothers, fathers and their 92,408 offspring born in 1964?76. Subsets of the cohort may be at risk for cancer through founder mutations . . . More »

Project Leader
Harlap, Susan

Location
Israel

Project
Chronic Disease Management in the Russian Federation
College of Physicians and Surgeons

The EMEP Program in the Russian Federation began as a continuing medical-education program in hypertension and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and tuberculosis. We have transformed and evolved the . . . More »

Project Leader
Greenberg, Henry

Location
Russian Federation (Europe)

Project
Diabetes Lipid Metabolism
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Diabetes Lipid Metabolism

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Project Leader
Noh, Hye-Lim

Location
United States of America

Project
Genetic Epidemiology of Aging Traits in Korean Populations
Mailman School of Public Health

The goal of this study is to examine how gene and environment interact to influence aging traits by studying Koreans who live in different parts of the world. For this pilot study, we are collecting . . . More »

Project Leader
Lee, Joseph H.

Location
Kazakhstan

Project
Genetics of Simple Metabolic Diseases
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Statistical consulting in analysis of rare disorders of metabolism in the Czech Republic. . . . More »

Project Leader
Terwilliger, Joseph

Location
Czech Republic

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Metabolism of Intravenous Lipid Emulsions
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Studies on the effects of varying the lipid composition of intravenous lipid emulsions or their metabolism in cultured cells, animal models, and humans. . . . More »

Project Leader
Deckelbaum, Richard

Location
Belgium

Project
Molecular Genetics of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: France
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Current research activities include efforts to identify genes (and relevant allelic variants) related to obesity and/or type 2 diabetes in mice and humans. The lab has particular interest in the . . . More »

Project Leader
Leibel, Rudolph

Location
France

Project
S. Daniel Abraham Center for International Health and Nutrition
College of Physicians and Surgeons

Provides educational activities and clinical research on nutrition, health promotion, and obesity prevention for the Israeli and Palestinian populations. . . . More »

Project Leader
Deckelbaum, Richard

Location
Israel

Project
The Macroeconomic Significance of Cardiovascular Disease
The Earth Institute at Columbia University

This project seeks to establish the macroeconomic significance of cardiovascular disease now and for the next forty years in low- and middle-income countries. Cardiovascular disease is the leading . . . More »

Project Leader
Leeder, Stephen

Location
United States of America





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