This post was written by Janelle Weaver, PhD, a freelance writer

Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and a major cause of disability. One major risk factor is obesity, which itself has undergone a dramatic increase in prevalence in the United States over the past 20 years and now affects more than one-third of adults. A major challenge in developing targeted drugs for diet-induced heart disease is to understand how molecular and genetic changes trigger metabolic imbalances that ultimately impair heart function. Continue reading “Discovering a missing link between obesity and heart disease”