Worldwide obesity rates have more than doubled since 1990, with nearly a billion people now falling into the category. Though ...

I f you constantly feel hungry no matter how you try to manage your appetite, a hormonal imbalance known as leptin resistance could be to blame. Not only can it make losing body w ...

However, there may be circumstances where a person develops a resistance to leptin, weakening the body’s reactivity to the hormone. This unfavourable circumstance could result in overeating ...

Researchers say study findings have important implications for our understanding of the pathogenesis of obesity and potential therapeutic applications.

Though, keep in mind that you never lose fat cells. They just get smaller. Obesity can lead to leptin resistance, which makes it harder to feel full. But it’s not always about body fat.

Higher leptin levels were associated with chronic widespread pain among patients with RA, even after adjusting for age, BMI, and sex.

A paper published in the May issue of Diabetes implicates triglycerides in the mechanism of leptin resistance. These fats, elevated in obesity, are what disrupt the transport of the hormone across the ...

In obesity, while hyperleptinemia highly correlates with excess fat mass, the status of gastric leptin remains unknown. Here, we investigated the expression of leptin in stomach biopsies of obese ...