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NIH Awards Funding for Obesity Prevention, Treatment Research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than $12 million to the Miriam Hospital’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center to support various obesity prevention and treatment projects, The Medical News reports. In the largest of six grants, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded $6 million over five years for a project comparing two behavioral interventions aimed at preventing weight gain in young adults. A two-year, $930,320 NIH challenge grant, also funded through NHLBI, will be used “to develop and test an innovative Internet-based program to improve patient adherence to behavioral weight loss regimens.” The Look AHEAD study, which investigates “whether weight loss achieved through an intensive lifestyle intervention can reduce cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease-related death among overweight individuals with Type 2 diabetes,” will also receive continued funding. NIH has also provided funding for another study that will include Look AHEAD trial participants and aims “to identify specific genes that predict individual differences in weight loss achieved in behavioral interventions” (The Medical News, 10/15/09).