Endocrine Abstracts

The global obesity epidemic needs no introduction to endocrinologists, but there has also been a parallel growing epidemic in the common epithelial cancers (breast, colorectum and prostate) that has largely coincided in timing and geography. Obesity has some clear effects that may increase the propensity for the development of specific tumors. There are however broader effects that could impact more generally on the most common epithelial cancers. Epithelial cells form barrier...

Worldwide, rates of obesity have been steadily increasing, along with disorders commonly associated with obesity, such as cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes. Simultaneously, average sleep times have progressively decreased. Evidence from both laboratory and epidemiologic studies has consistently associated insufficient sleep or short sleep with increased risk of obesity. In the laboratory, it is now possible to control sleep behavior and study the link between sleep d...

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