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NEW ORLEANS – Stung by disappointing long-term outcomes for evidence-based intensive behavioral weight loss interventions that are often marked by late backsliding, researchers are turning the standard treatment programs upside down, with encouraging preliminary results. One example of the new... »
Obesity Linked to More Advanced and More Aggressive Thyroid Cancer
Patients who are obese are more likely than are normal-weight patients to present with advanced papillary thyroid cancer and to have an aggressive subtype of the malignancy, according to a report published online May 21 in the Archives of Surgery. The reasons for these adverse findings are not yet... »
Rise in Adolescent NAFLD Outpacing Obesity
Obese children seem to have gotten fatter around the middle over time, and that development may account in part for an observed increase in suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among adolescents. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in adolescents has nearly tripled from 1998 to 2008,... »
SAN DIEGO – Although women who delay pregnancy to age 40 years and older face an increased risk for adverse outcomes, reducing prepregnancy body mass index may reduce their risk for cesarean delivery, gestational diabetes,... »
Iron Deficiency Anemia 'Unintended Consequence' of Gastric Bypass
SAN DIEGO – About one-quarter of patients referred to a private hematology practice had iron deficiency associated with gastric bypass surgery. In addition, 57% demonstrated symptoms of pica syndrome – a craving for and... »
Screening of Florida Teens Finds Hypertension, Obesity, Abnormal ECGs
DENVER – When 606 outwardly healthy, normal high school students were screened in a Florida pilot study, 14% had borderline or abnormal ECGs, 14% were hypertensive, and 12% were obese. One student had Wolff-Parkinson-White... »
NEW ORLEANS – Stung by disappointing long-term outcomes for evidence-based intensive behavioral weight loss interventions that are often marked by late backsliding, researchers are turning the standard treatment programs... »
Obesity Linked to More Advanced and More Aggressive Thyroid Cancer
Patients who are obese are more likely than are normal-weight patients to present with advanced papillary thyroid cancer and to have an aggressive subtype of the malignancy, according to a report published online May 21 in... »
Rise in Adolescent NAFLD Outpacing Obesity
Obese children seem to have gotten fatter around the middle over time, and that development may account in part for an observed increase in suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among adolescents. Nonalcoholic fatty... »
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