Jeffery Schwimmer, MD

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Biography
	Dr. Jeffrey Schwimmer works at the Division of Gastroenterology within Department of Pediatrics at UCSD. He was recently appointed to the American Medical Associations Experts Committee Panel on the assessment, prevention and management of Child and adolescent Overweight and Obesity. Dr. Schwimmer's National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NCMHD), Comprehensive Research Center in Health Disparities (CRCHD) funded pilot project is described below.

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Pilot Research

Dr. Schwimmer's pilot and feasibility proposal focused on the relationship between adiponectin and cardiovascular disease risk factors in obese Mexican American and African American children. Childhood obesity is an epidemic disproportionately affecting Mexican American and African American children. A better understanding of predictors of CVD in high risk populations may enhance efforts at prevention and early intervention. The aims of this study were:

1. To recruit obese Mexican American and African American children and their families for gene association studies.
2. To phenotype CVD risk factors in obese children and their families.
3. To collect DNA from obese children and their families.
4. To genotype SNPs in the genes coding for adiponecting and the adiponecting receptors.
5. To test the hypothesis that SNPs in adiponectin and adiponectin receptor genes correlate with CVD risk factors in obese Mexican American and African American children.