Abdominal fat or belly fat is the most common type of obesity which is also known as spare tire, visceral fat or pot belly.

Belly fat is equally found in men and women and is most difficult to get rid of it. Not only it affects one’s appearance but also brings a lot of underlying problems such as elevated levels of cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure which may lead towards heart disease or stroke and triglycerides in the blood.

Causes of Belly Fat

Belly fat can be an outcome of various factors. Some of the major causes of belly fat are as follows:
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A new study has found, the people having high levels of CRP or C-reactive protein which was already being suspected for causing heart disease, had been found with a higher risk of developing cancer.

CRP is linked to inflammation. But it is not obvious accurately whether inflammation may lead towards heart disease and cancer or it is just a warning sign of the diseases. There is a group of doctors who starts to consider that measurements of CRP should be necessary part of regular health check up.

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In U.S, a very poor growth in the sale of prescription drug have been seen in 2008, the figure is about 291 billion dollar which is continue to decrease as most of the people are now using the generic drugs or avoiding medication due to the  economic crisis.

In the year 2006 sale rose about eight percent and which in 2007 declined to 3.8 percent but the worst increase was seen in 2008 that was just 1.3 percent.

The horrible picture came out when IMS health Inc, collected the annual data of the pharmaceutical industry. “Just 0.9 percent growth occurred in the dispensed prescription volume that was 2.8 and 4.6 in 07 and 2006 respectively, according to the previous IMS report.

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In a unique long-term study to notice the life threatening conditions in younger adults, researchers founded that black adults develop 20 percent more heart diseases than white population and one in every hundred black population gets heart attack before the age of 50.

This is too early to say black patients have higher rate of heart diseases because findings based on a very small number of congestive heart failure and more study is needed to sustain the evidences. But these findings force doctors to treat black patients with more cautions who may have higher risk.

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A new study has found a hormone known as kisspeptin to play a vital role in restoring female fertility. Therapy based on kisspeptin might serve as a less risky but more efficient treatment for infertility in women.

The phenomenon involves the stimulation of two key sex hormones which are essential for the proper functioning of menstruation cycle. Lack of kisspeptin brings sexual immaturity in females. The research was comprised of women in whom menstruation had been stopped which showed their infertility.

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