A large majority of older Americans feel that health insurance—including Medicare—should cover anti-obesity medications, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Mar 26, 2025
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Researchers studying British Labrador retrievers have identified multiple genes associated with canine obesity and shown that these genes are also associated with obesity in humans. The results are published in the journal ...
Mar 6, 2025
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Without urgent policy reform and action, over half the world's adult population (3.8 billion) and a third of all children and adolescents (746 million) are forecast to be living with overweight or obesity by 2050—posing ...
Mar 3, 2025
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Mutations in a gene called OTP cause obesity by controlling the output of another gene already targeted by an anti-obesity drug, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The findings, reported in Science ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Obesity, which affects 650 million people worldwide, influences the development of cardiometabolic diseases and increases the risk of cancer.
Jan 13, 2025
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Obese mice whose fat cells were genetically altered to produce an increased amount of the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor (GIPR) lost more than a third of their body weight through a mechanism that burns ...
Jan 6, 2025
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Higher calorie foods were preferred among individuals with and without obesity despite similar taste and texture, according to a study published December 17 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Albino Oliveira-Maia ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Researchers at Saint Louis University's School of Medicine say T-cell dysfunction is leading to an increased risk of cancer in obese populations.
Nov 18, 2024
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Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the U.S., at least doubling in adult men and women (aged 25 and older) and older female and male adolescents (aged 15–24 ...
Nov 14, 2024
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A study co-led by a Johns Hopkins Children's Center clinician-researcher shows that adding text messaging and other electronic feedback to traditional in-clinic health counseling for parents about feeding habits, playtime ...
Nov 3, 2024
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