Published: Nov 11, 2013 | Updated: Nov 12, 2013 By Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/MyocardialInfarction/42839 Action Points Overweight and obesity are risk factors for MI and ischemic heart disease with increasing cumulative incidences of MI and ischemic heart disease from normal weight through overweight to obese individuals. The increased risk […]
Published: Nov 20, 2013 | Updated: Nov 20, 2013 By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/Diabetes/43040 Action Points Note that this cohort study demonstrated similar risks of diabetes and heart disease among obese patients who were metabolically healthy and normal weight patients who were metabolically unhealthy. Be aware that the authors used […]
Joanna Broder November 04, 2013 Full Article (may require free registration): http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/813754 Girls in the United States are entering puberty at younger ages than they have in the past, but investigators have not been able to pinpoint the cause. Now, a longitudinal study, published online November 4 in Pediatrics, suggests a higher body mass index […]
David R Seaman Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2013, 21:15 doi:10.1186/2045-709X-21-15 Background Back pain is one of the most common complaints that patients report to physicians and two-thirds of the population has an elevated body mass index (BMI), indicating they are either overweight or obese. It was once assumed that extra body weight would stress the […]
David R Seaman Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2013, 21:15 doi:10.1186/2045-709X-21-15 Published: 20 May 2013 Abstract Background Back pain is one of the most common complaints that patients report to physicians and two-thirds of the population has an elevated body mass index (BMI), indicating they are either overweight or obese. It was once assumed that extra body weight would […]
Published: May 14, 2013 | Updated: May 15, 2013 By Cole Petrochko , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Thin women may have a greater risk of developing endometriosis than women who are morbidly obese. Note that the association between body mass index (BMI) and endometriosis was strongest in infertile women, with a significantly lower […]
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 12:01 AM BST 14 May 2013 Your waist should be no more than half the length of your height, according to experts who claim that having too large a trouser size can dramatically shorten your lifespan. Measuring the ratio of someone’s waist to their height is a better way of […]
Published: May 6, 2013 | Updated: May 6, 2013 By Nancy Walsh , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal. Vitamin D deficiency was significantly associated […]
Marc Bardou, Alan N Barkun, Myriam MartelDisclosures Gut. 2013;62(6):933-947. Abstract Excess body weight, as defined by the body mass index (BMI), has been associated with several diseases and includes subjects who are overweight (BMI≥25–29.9 kg/m2) or obese (BMI≥30 kg/m2). Overweight and obesity constitute the fifth leading risk for overall mortality, accounting for at least 2.8 […]
A population-based study Samartzis D, et al. Arthritis Rheum. 2012 May;64(5):1488-96. doi: 10.1002/art.33462. Comment in Arthritis Rheum. 2012 Dec;64(12):4163-4; author reply 4164-5. Abstract OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of being overweight or obese with the presence, extent, and severity of lumbar disc degeneration on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in adults. METHODS: A population-based cross-sectional study […]
Arch Intern Med. 2009 Aug 10;169(15):1355-62. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.237. Healthy living is the best revenge: findings from the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition-Potsdam study. Ford ES, Bergmann MM, Kröger J, Schienkiewitz A, Weikert C, Boeing H. Abstract BACKGROUND: Our objective was to describe the reduction in relative risk of developing major chronic diseases such […]
Published: Feb 12, 2009 By Kristina Fiore , Staff Writer, MedPage Today Full Story Action Points Explain to interested patients that greater waist circumference among patients ages 20 to 55 was associated with a significantly higher rate of migraine for both men and women. Note that the association may be attributable to adipose tissue, which […]
Arthritis Care Research News Alerts. 2009;61(3):329-335. Obesity is known to be a strong risk factor for the onset of knee osteoarthritis (OA), but studies on the relationship between obesity and progression of the disease have shown mixed results and have lacked large numbers of patients. It’s important to clarify the relationship between weight loss and […]