Issue of
February 4, 1998

Women sought for weight-loss study

RESEARCHERS LED BY DR. GERALD M. Reaven, emeritus professor of medicine, are interested in studying the relationship between insulin resistance and weight loss in healthy, overweight women between the ages of 30 and 65 years.

Volunteers should be healthy and with no history of diabetes. The study will last nine weeks. Stanford research dietitians will conduct the weight-loss intervention and provide weight-maintenance advice at the end of the study.

For more information, call Drs. Abbasi or McLaughlin at 723-7024 during business hours.