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Weight loss medication benefits patients with heart failure, obesity: Rese
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The trial included 529 patients. The median age was 69 years and 56.1 per cent were women
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School nurses might be important in lowering childhood obesity: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
School nurses do far more than heal skinned knees and take temperature readings. According to a Rutgers study published in the journal Paediatric Nursing, they may also be important in lowering childhood obesity.
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Obesity, diabetes in pregnancy: Consequences in children
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Children of women who were obese or had diabetes during pregnancy developed certain epigenetic alterations that predisposed them to suffer from diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and the cardiovascular problems that resulted from them, according to research conducted by paediatricians at th
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Obesity linked to increased risk of complications after surgery: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Overweight and obesity are not just complicated and dangerous disorders, but physicians and researchers are still learning how they affect health outcomes ranging from heart and musculoskeletal health to disease risk, including cancer.
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Bariatric surgery might cut risk of obesity-related cancers: Study
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to a study to be presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2023, just 4% of patients with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery developed obesity-associated cancer in a 10-year follow-up, compared to 8.9% of those who did not have a weight-loss treatment.
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Bariatric surgery may reverse diabetes complications for people with obesi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A research team led by the University of Michigan Health Department of Neurology followed more than 120 patients who underwent bariatric surgery for obesity over two years after the procedure. They found that all metabolic risk factors for developing diabetes, such as high glucose and lipid
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Obesity diagnosis may result in significant weight loss without surgery or
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Imagine getting the benefits of gastric bypass surgery without having to go under the knife -- a new class of compounds may be able to do just that. These potential treatments significantly reduce body weight and blood glucose levels in laboratory animals.
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Obesity risk may be passed on from moms to daughters: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism of the Endocrine Society, mothers with obesity may share the disease's risk with their daughters but not with their sons.
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Excess calories during development of brain-altering reduce cravings for u
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
In Molecular Metabolism, a Rutgers study found that early overnutrition rewires developing brains to seek unhealthy food in children whose mothers are overweight during pregnancy and nursing.
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Obesity risk might pass from mothers to daughters: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, women with obesity might share the disease's risk with their daughters but not with their sons.
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Diet, exercise programs alone will not tackle childhood obesity: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Relying on quick solutions like diet and exercise programmes will not stop the tide of kid obesity, according to a new study that maps the complex processes that contribute to childhood obesity for the first time.
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Excess calories during development alter brain, spurs adult overeating: St
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a Rutgers study published in Molecular Metabolism, people whose moms are overweight during pregnancy and nursing might become obese as adults because early overnutrition rewires developing brains to crave unhealthy food
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