his is the conclusion of a study published in the prestigious journal European Heart Journal conducted by professor Francisco B. Ortega, a researcher at the University of Granada Department of Physical Education and at the Karolinska Institut Department of BioSciences and Nutrition (Sweden).
A person can be obese and metabolically healthy at the same time, which means that this person will have the same mortality risk for heart disease or cancer that people of normal weight. This is the conclusion of a study published in the prestigious journal European Heart Journal [1].

«Obesity is associated with a large number of chronic diseases as heart diseases or cancer. However, there is a group of obese people that do not suffer the metabolic complications associated with obesity», the author of the study, Prof. Francisco B.Ortega, explains.

Prof. Ortega is currently working as a researcher and professor at the University of Granada Department of Physical Education, and at the Karolinska Institut Department of BioSciences and Nutrition in Sweden. Prof. Ortega conducted this study during his professional stay at the University of South Carolina (USA), in collaboration with Prof. Steven N. Blair, one of the most renowned researchers in the world in the field of physical activity, fitness and health. Prof. Blair is the coordinator of the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS), which includes more than 43,000 people followed-up either for 15 years or until their death,

Prof. Ortega et al. observed in their study that between 30-40% of obese patients were metabolically healthy. «We made two findings: firstly, metabolically-healthy obese people exhibited better cardiorespiratory fitness –or aerobic fitness-. Secondly, this subgroup has a lower mortality risk rate for heart disease or cancer than other obese people, and has the same mortality risk than people of normal weight.»
«This study concludes that, regardless of body weight and fat, people with better aerobic fitness have a lower risk for heart or cancer disease and death», Dr. Ortega states.

«This finding means that a more accurate prognosis of the risk for heart or cancer disease in obese people can be achieved if health professionals assess the lipid profile, BMI and fitness of their obese patients.

Note: [1] «The intriguing metabolically healthy but obese phenotype: cardiovascular prognosis and role of fitness,» by Francisco B. Ortega, Duck-chul Lee, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Xuemei Sui, Timothy S. Church, and Steven N. Blair. European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehs174.

Contacting person: Francisco B. Ortega. University of Granada Department of Physical Education. Telef. +34 958 244374. E-mail address: ortegaf@ugr.es

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The prestigious journal Science has published the results of this research study.
The University of Granada is developing a quantum sensor, a unique device for measuring the mass of nuclei with precision and accuracy.

An international research group –with the participation of the University of Granada– has achieved to measure the effects of layers on super-heavy elements, which provides useful data on the nuclear structure of these as-yet undiscovered elements in Nature. These results might be useful to locate the so-called «Island of Stability» introduced by a theory that states the existence of highly stable super-heavy elements with very long average lives. The researchers measured the isotopes of nobelium and lawrence using a particle accelerator at the Center of for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), Darmstadt (Germany).

The research group included members of the GSI, the Helmholtz Institute (Mainz, HIM), the universities of Giessen, Granada, Greifswald, Heidelberg, Mainz, Munich and Padua, the Max-Planck Institute of Nuclear Phyisics (Heidelberg) and the PNPI Institute (St. Petersburg).

Super-heavy elements are elements with an atomic number (number of protons in the nucleus) greater than that of Lawrence (Z=103). These elements are not found in Nature, and they are created in nuclear physics labs –as GSI– through the bombardment of elements in a particle accelerator. –Super-heavy elements are created in quantities on the atomic scale and no method of mass creation has been found. However, there are predictive theories that state that a group of extremely stable super-heavy elements exist in the so-called Island of Stability

The stability of super-heavy elements is caused by the «layer effects» in the atomic nucleus. The components of the nucleus –protons and neutrons- are arranged in layers. There are layers full of protons or neutrons –referred as «magic layers»- that are strongly bound, which results in extremely stable elements. Without this bonding, super-heavy elements would immediately disintegrate due to Coulomb’s repulsion among protons.

The University of Granada is developing a quantum sensor, a unique device for measuring the greatest mass of nuclei ever measured (because of technical limitations), which will be published in Science. This device will be integrated into the GSI’s accelerator in Germany, in the SHIPTRAP facilities.

The development of this measuring device (which started in November 2011) has been enabled by a grant of 1.5 million euros, one of the highest grants ever awarded to the University of Granada for a specific project. This grant was awarded to Professor Daniel Rodríguez by the European Research Council in 2011 within the topic framework «Fundamental Constituents of Matter»

Further information: http://sl.ugr.es/02oV

Contacting Person: Daniel Rodríguez. Professor at the University of Granada Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics. Telf.:+34 958240029, +34 958248841 E-mail: danielrodriguez@ugr.es

Subject: Nuclear Energy; Physics Astronomy;
Country: Spain;

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The prestigious journal Science has published the results of this research study.
The University of Granada is developing a quantum sensor, a unique device for measuring the mass of nuclei with precision and accuracy.

An international research group –with the participation of the University of Granada– has achieved to measure the effects of layers on super-heavy elements, which provides useful data on the nuclear structure of these as-yet undiscovered elements in Nature. These results might be useful to locate the so-called «Island of Stability» introduced by a theory that states the existence of highly stable super-heavy elements with very long average lives. The researchers measured the isotopes of nobelium and lawrence using a particle accelerator at the Center of for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), Darmstadt (Germany).

The research group included members of the GSI, the Helmholtz Institute (Mainz, HIM), the universities of Giessen, Granada, Greifswald, Heidelberg, Mainz, Munich and Padua, the Max-Planck Institute of Nuclear Phyisics (Heidelberg) and the PNPI Institute (St. Petersburg).

Super-heavy elements are elements with an atomic number (number of protons in the nucleus) greater than that of Lawrence (Z=103). These elements are not found in Nature, and they are created in nuclear physics labs –as GSI– through the bombardment of elements in a particle accelerator. –Super-heavy elements are created in quantities on the atomic scale and no method of mass creation has been found. However, there are predictive theories that state that a group of extremely stable super-heavy elements exist in the so-called Island of Stability

The stability of super-heavy elements is caused by the «layer effects» in the atomic nucleus. The components of the nucleus –protons and neutrons- are arranged in layers. There are layers full of protons or neutrons –referred as «magic layers»- that are strongly bound, which results in extremely stable elements. Without this bonding, super-heavy elements would immediately disintegrate due to Coulomb’s repulsion among protons.

The University of Granada is developing a quantum sensor, a unique device for measuring the greatest mass of nuclei ever measured (because of technical limitations), which will be published in Science. This device will be integrated into the GSI’s accelerator in Germany, in the SHIPTRAP facilities.

The development of this measuring device (which started in November 2011) has been enabled by a grant of 1.5 million euros, one of the highest grants ever awarded to the University of Granada for a specific project. This grant was awarded to Professor Daniel Rodríguez by the European Research Council in 2011 within the topic framework «Fundamental Constituents of Matter»

Further information: http://sl.ugr.es/02oV

Contacting Person: Daniel Rodríguez. Professor at the University of Granada Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics. Telf.:+34 958240029, +34 958248841 E-mail: danielrodriguez@ugr.es

Subject: Nuclear Energy; Physics Astronomy;
Country: Spain;

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