{"id":712324,"date":"2026-06-03T13:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/712324\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:46:14","slug":"large-grant-for-research-on-how-weight-cycling-affects-cardiovascular-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/712324\/","title":{"rendered":"Large grant for research on how weight cycling affects cardiovascular health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grant is to be used within the international ADAMANT network, coordinated by Mikael Ryd\u00e9n together with Edward A. Fisher at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. ADAMANT brings together researchers from Europe and the United States and will investigate how changes in body fat influence the development of atherosclerosis.<\/p>\n<p>Particular focus is placed on so-called weight cycling, that is, repeated periods of weight loss and weight regain, which are suspected to increase inflammation in the body and accelerate the build-up of plaque in the blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>The network will combine studies in animal models with analyses of human blood and tissue samples to better understand the biological mechanisms underlying the link between adipose tissue and cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grant is to be used within the international ADAMANT network, coordinated by Mikael Ryd\u00e9n together with Edward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-712324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}