Leptin

Women who eat more ultraprocessed foods are more likely to have leptin resistance and may have alterations in their gut microbiota, according to a study published in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases.

ATLANTA — Male runners are more likely to have lower tibial bone mineral density and strength compared with nonathletes, according to a presenter at ENDO 2022.

Four body fat-related biomarkers are linked to risk for type 2 diabetes for parous women; for one of these, the association differs by gestational diabetes status, researchers found.

Increasing leptin levels are independently associated with decreasing testosterone and could be a cause for testosterone deficiency in men with obesity, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III.

Genetic modifiers — many discovered in the late 1990s — can be “harnessed” to better understand the processes and mechanisms behind weight gain and one day even regulate appetite, according to a speaker.

Healthy women with a high preconception leptin level are nearly 20 times more likely to develop gestational diabetes when compared with women with a low leptin level, although leptin was not shown to influence risks for pregnancy loss or preterm delivery, according to findings published in Obesity Science & Practice.

Among women with a history of prior pregnancy loss, higher levels of preconception leptin are associated with decreased fecundability and reduced likelihood of pregnancy and live birth, according to findings published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.