1. Obese people tend to have higher blood pressure than lean people.
2. And doctors can create a more hospitable environment for obese people just by making a few changes in their offices, experts say.
3. Another myth the study debunks is that obese people have unusually slow metabolisms.
4. As obese people get fatter, Tartaglia said, both their insulin and leptin levels rise.
5. A better sex life may be an additional benefit that obese people can look forward to after they lose weight, he added.
6. But anyone with a prejudice against obese people should approach with caution.
7. But an advocacy group for obese people said it feared consumers might not monitor their blood pressures closely enough and that Knoll might be understating the risk.
8. But it turned out that obese people are not low in leptin, he said.
9. But the picture in humans has turned out to be confused, because many obese people have high, rather than low, levels of leptin.
10. Experts say that more research is needed to see whether leptin can help certain obese people lose weight.