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Severe obesity persists, takes high cardiovascular toll
“This research highlights the high cardiovascular toll exacted by continuing failure to tackle obesity, particularly among more socioeconomically...
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Eating more fat may boost borderline low testosterone
“If somebody has low testosterone, particularly borderline, they could try increasing their fat intake, maybe on a Mediterranean diet, and see if...
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Bariatric surgery may cut cancer in obesity with liver disease
Among working adults with severe obesity and fatty liver disease, rates of cancer were lower after bariatric surgery during a 10-month median...
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‘Major update’ of BP guidance for kidney disease; treat to 120 mm Hg
“[Chapter one] of the guidelines is devoted to blood pressure measurement ... if [targeting] 120 [mm Hg systolic], the emphasis is on 120 measured...
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Semaglutide for meaningful weight loss in obesity and diabetes?
“This is by far the best result we had with any weight loss medicine in patients with diabetes,” says the senior author of the STEP 2 clinical...
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Semaglutide for weight loss? A good first STEP, with caveats
“On the face of it, the STEP 1 trial (like its name) is a good beginning,” said the editorialists. More patients in the semaglutide group had...
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Bariatric surgery gives 10-year cure for some advanced diabetes
These results provide “the most robust scientific evidence yet that full-blown type 2 diabetes is a curable disease, not inevitably progressive,...
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Monoclonal antibody drops fat, ups muscle in obesity, diabetes
‘Blockade of the activin receptor with bimagrumab could provide a novel pharmacologic approach for managing patients with type 2 diabetes with...
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Marijuana use tied to repeat MI, stroke after percutaneous coronary intervention
“It is absolutely critical” that cardiologists and general providers screen patients for marijuana use, “either at the time of their MI or ideally...
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Cardiac arrest in COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Survival is possible’
Results of new studies of in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest underline that, despite lower survival rates during the pandemic, rates are “not...
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In those with obesity, will losing weight cut COVID-19 severity?
“To think excess weight may also be detrimental to acute effects of a novel virus running amok in the world has focused minds on obesity in a...
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Major breakthrough? Average 10% weight loss with semaglutide
“This is impressive data, confirming that semaglutide, particularly when used in concert with evidence-based counseling, is a highly effective...
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‘Disordered eating’ drops after teens undergo bariatric surgery
The findings are “novel because of the age of the patients,” according to one of the investigators.
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Obesity biggest risk for COVID-19 pneumonia, after age, male sex
The impact of obesity was most pronounced in women younger than 50 years.
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AACE issues ‘cookbook’ algorithm to manage dyslipidemia
The algorithm helps clinicians “focus on LDL-C, triglycerides, high-risk patients, and lifestyle [and] understand all the medications available to...