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Does your body really fight against weight loss? This scientist explains why the research says no.
When people lose weight, their energy needs drop more steeply than expected, due to a phenomenon called metabolic adaptation. This well-known yet little-studied effect is often blamed for long-term weight regain, but UAB researchers have found no evidence to support that. The questions are becoming more pressing as potentially millions of people take drugs such as Ozempic that can lead to short-term weight loss but long-term regain when discontinued.
Garvey and researchers share findings from healthcare professionals survey on anti-obesity medications
UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Associate Director W. Timothy Garvey, M.D., and collaborators recently shared their findings from a cross-sectional online survey of 785 health care professionals (HCPs).
Ashraf publishes review in Current Opinion in Lipidology
UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Associate Director Ambika Ashraf, M.D., published the review “Altered lipid metabolism and the development of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease” in the journal Current Opinion in Lipidology.
Read moreAgarwal awarded AACE H. Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) awarded UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center Member and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Professor Monica Argawal, M.D., the Jack Baskin, MD, Endocrine Teaching Award.
Garvey and researchers publish findings on cardiometabolic risk prediction models
UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Associate Director W. Timothy Garvey, M.D., and collaborators recently published “Cardiometabolic Disease Staging and Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event Prediction in 2 Prospective Cohorts” in the journal JACC: Advances.
UCDC researchers to present in Boston and Orlando
June 2024 brings with it many endocrinology and diabetes conference opportunities. Notably, the Endocrine Society meeting, ENDO 2024, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 83rd Scientific Session, and others.
UCDC welcomes Wang to the Department of Genetics
The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) is pleased to welcome Weidong Wang, Ph.D., who will serve as an associate professor in the Department of Genetics.
Alsharif awarded best overall oral presentation at Boshell Diabetes Research Day
Hafia (Saba) Alsharif, a doctoral student in the lab of Sushant Bhatnagar, Ph.D., recently won the Best Overall Presentation Award at the Boshell Diabetes Research Day program in Auburn, Alabama.
UCDC members present research, speak at Boshell Diabetes Research Day
Justin Alexander (left) and Saba Alsharif (right)This year’s Boshell Diabetes Research Day featured W. Timothy Garvey, M.D., associate director of the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center, director of the UAB Diabetes Research Center, and professor in the UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences, as the banquet speaker.
Ananda and Rita Basu named to endowed professorships
The UAB Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Professors and UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) Senior Scientists Ananda Basu, M.D., and Rita Basu, M.D., were each awarded an endowed professorship.