Episode 6: Links

A sampling of the sources used to produce Episode 6 of Absolute Science:

• WHO will not hire smokers, from the British Journal of Medicine.
• False positives from HIV test. A NYT article about the OraQuick HIV test that has applied for approval to be sold over the counter in the U.S.
• Genetics of mammalian calorie restriction, from the British Journal of Medicine.
• Metabolic syndrome. From the Cleveland Clinic.
• Long Needles Needed to Penetrate Fat in Obese. From Medpage today.

Also:

• Abdominal adipose tissue cytokine gene expression: relationship to obesity and metabolic risk factors. (Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Apr;288(4):E741-7. Epub 2004 Nov 23)
  
• Exercise is required for visceral fat loss in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Mar;90(3):1511-8. Epub 2004 Dec 14)
• The rising tide of metabolic syndrome. (Postgrad Med. 2004, 116(6)54i, 54iv-vii.)
• Inactivity, exercise, and visceral fat. STRRIDE: a randomized, controlled study of exercise intensity and amount. J Appl Physiol. 2005 Oct;99(4):1613-8. Epub 2005 Jul 7)