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Like many other medical conditions, obesity is the result of an interplay between environmental and genetic factors. [2] [3] Studies have identified variants in several genes that may contribute to weight gain and body fat distribution, although only in a few cases are genes the primary cause of obesity.
The modern disease theory of alcoholism states that problem drinking is sometimes caused by a disease of the brain, characterized by altered brain structure and function. Today, alcohol use disorder (AUD) is used as a more scientific and suitable approach to alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems. [1]
There are a range of genetic and environmental risk factors for developing an addiction that vary across the population. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Genetic and environmental risk factors each account for roughly half of an individual's risk for developing an addiction; [ 2 ] the contribution from epigenetic (inheritable traits) [ 6 ] risk factors to the ...
Scientists have found that people missing a specific blood group due to a genetic variant may be genetically predisposed to having obesity or ... 21 genes related to Alzheimer’s disease to obesity.
The relationship between alcohol consumption and body weight is the subject of inconclusive studies. Findings of these studies range from increase in body weight to a small decrease among women who begin consuming alcohol .
In this study, however, we found a clear genetic trigger for obesity,” said lead study author Dr. Mattia Frontini, British Heart Foundation senior fellow and an associate professor in cellular ...
The spectrum of alcohol withdrawal symptoms range from such minor symptoms as insomnia and tremulousness to severe complications such as withdrawal seizures and delirium tremens. [12] Alcohol withdrawal syndrome can be very tricky to diagnose, due to other preliminary conditions that may exist from individual to individual.
The main problem with this idea is the timing at which the transition is presumed to have happened, and how this would then translate into the genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes and obesity [citation needed]. For example, the decline in reproductive investment in human societies (the so-called r to K shift) has occurred far too recently ...