Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wln3d2/the_2016_obesity) has announced the addition of the "The 2016 Obesity Summit (London, UK - 12th-14th April 2016)" conference to their offering.

Obesity and its related morbidities are widely recognised as some of the most important problems facing public health today; research in this field is ever growing.

The obesity summit brings together international scientists to discuss and debate the main research and clinical and psychosocial factors of obesity, its treatment and causes.

In an informal academic setting this event promises to offer opportunities to discuss a great variety of factors involved in obesity, including prediction, prevention, diagnosis and management, gene-environment interactions, drug discovery, fetal reprogramming, lipidomics and metabolomics.

Who Should Attend:

This event is suited to anyone with an academic or professional interest in obesity and its research; including researchers, senior scientists, postgraduate students, physicians, pharmacologists, and those who work in research and development of pharmaceuticals and related technology.

Talks Include :

- Long-term outcomes after bariatric surgery: The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study

- Cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) in obesity

- Epigenetic correlates of obesity

- My tummy hurts ! Gastrointestinal problems in an obese child

- Digestive Adaptation and Metabolic Surgery

- Stress reactivity and weight change in a longitudinal birth cohort at 30 and 35 years

- Anthropometric cut-points for obesity in Africans and African-descent population groups: an update

- Cultural Perspectives on Binge Eating and Obesity

- Developmental programming in the pathogenesis of fatty liver disease

- Amino acids, energy metabolism and obesity

- How Much Difference Does Exercise Make In the Treatment of Obesity?

- Epigenetic Signatures of Obesity

- Brown adipose tissue as an anti-obesity target

- Lung protection strategies in surgical patients with obesity

- The dangerous link between Obesity and Mental Illness

- Maternal high fat diet affects epigenetic programming of hypothalamic mechanisms, a pathway towards obesity in their offspring

- Modulation of microbiota and obesity

- Mechanisms of heart failure in obesity

- Abdominal pain after Bariatric surgery Causes and management

- Reproductive outcomes after bariatric surgery

- Anesthesia Challenges in the Surgical Cure for Morbid Obesity

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/wln3d2/the_2016_obesity