Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes may negatively impact bone density in youth
Type 2 diabetes may negatively impact bone density around the age of peak bone mass, according to a study published online Aug. 10 in Diabetes Care.
Aug 26, 2020
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News tagged with obese patients
Diabetes
Major weight loss—whether from surgery or diet—has same metabolic benefits
Gastric bypass surgery is the most effective therapy to treat or reverse type 2 diabetes in severely obese patients. Many achieve remission of diabetes following surgery and no longer require diabetes medications. This observation ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Obesity may increase risk of dying from COVID-19, especially in younger men
Researchers found a striking association between BMI and risk for death among patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19. The association was independent of obesity-related comorbities and other potential confounders. Their findings ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Increased breast cancer risk in obesity linked to fat cell chemicals
Obesity increases the release of tumor-promoting molecules from fat tissue and is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in Endocrine-Related Cancer. The study found that fat tissue ...
Aug 11, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Obesity ups risk for intubation, death with COVID-19 in adults under 65
(HealthDay)—Obesity is associated with an increased risk for intubation or death among hospitalized adults with COVID-19, with the association observed in adults younger than 65 years but not in older adults, according ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Fatty liver disease despite a normal weight examined
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) had long been thought to be a liver disease afflicting obese patients, while recent evidence has shown that non-obese individuals can be equally affected by NAFLD. In a new study, ...
Jul 31, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Extra weight can be a deadly complication when fighting COVID-19
Dr. Craig Mallak's work in the morgue tracking Broward County's COVID-19 deaths startled him so much he shed pounds that he didn't even need to lose.
Jul 28, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Popular chemotherapy drug may be less effective in overweight and obese women
Breast cancer patients who are overweight or obese might benefit less from treatment with docetaxel, a common chemotherapy drug, than lean patients. An international team of researchers based this conclusion on a retrospective ...
Jul 3, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study says lockdowns making things worse for obese Americans
(HealthDay)—As COVID-19 closed gyms and forced people to hunker down at home, "Quarantine-15" jokes flooded the internet, referring to the weight gain that many anticipated.
Jun 15, 2020
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Medical research
BMI an inconsistent measure of obesity for Maori and Pacific people
BMI (body mass index) is likely to be an inconsistent measure of obesity in Māori and Pacific patients, new University of Otago research reveals.
Jun 12, 2020
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