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EVGFP, on which YHL was based, might have missed some effects of obesity on risk factors for future health.
Table 1presents the prevalence of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, physical inactivity, obesity and smoking habits, in patients and controls that adopted the Mediterranean diet compared to patients and controls that they did not adopt this diet.
The data have important implications for our understanding of obesity and related disorders in the general population, with one caveat: the study population was enriched with snorers, making the results less applicable to a general population.
The big breakthrough in understanding obesity came in 1994, when experiments on lab mice revealed that the hormone leptin controls the setpoint by controlling satiety.
To test if genetic perturbations that cause obesity and diabetes can alter IOP, we compared mice that were genetically similar but were either homozygous or heterozygous for a leptin receptor mutation ( db ) that results in obesity and diabetes before 4 months of age on the C57BLKS/J strain background used [ 27 ] . IOP was modestly but significantly elevated in obese, diabetic homozygous mutants (14.