12.02.2013 by Salynn Boyles Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Metabolically healthy obese people have a long-term increased risk for death and cardiovascular events compared with their normal-weight counterparts, suggesting there is no such thing as benign obesity, according to a meta-analysis. When studies with follow-ups of a decade or more were considered, obese people with no […]
Action Points Increased BMI and body fat mass were associated with adverse hip cartilage changes in females, while increased body fat-free mass was associated with beneficial cartilage changes for both genders. It is yet unknown if altering body composition to reduce body fat mass and increase fat-free mass changes the natural history of osteoarthritis. Higher […]
Enzyme responsible for obesity-related high blood pressure identified — ScienceDaily site-iconsciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150505121422.htm In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, William Durante, Ph.D., led a team of MU researchers that identified an enzyme linked to obesity-related high blood pressure. Credit: Jeffrey Hoelscher Obesity is a serious health problem affecting […]
Eric J. Topol, MD, Martin J. Blaser, MD Disclosures April 13, 2015 See Video Interview Tracing a Path From Campylobacter to the Microbiome Eric J. Topol, MD: Hello. I’m Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape, and I am pleased to have Dr Martin Blaser join me for this One-on-One interview. Dr Blaser runs the Human Microbiome Center at New […]
Nancy A. Melville April 03, 2015 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The adult children of mothers who had prepregnancy obesity have a significantly increased risk for psychosis, new research shows. “This is now the fourth large study to show a positive association between maternal prepregnancy obesity and psychosis outcomes,” said lead author James Scott, MD, of the University […]
Veronica Hackethal, MD March 26, 2015 Obesity and drinking alcohol increase the risk for liver cancer, and coffee consumption decreases the risk, according to a new report called Diet, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Liver Cancer. The report was released by the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund’s Continuous Update Project (CUP) on […]
What Diet Soda Does to Belly Fat March 17, 2015 More evidence that diet soda contributes to weight gain, not weight loss A new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that people who drank diet soda gained almost triple the abdominal fat over nine years as those who didn’t drink […]
3 March 2015, Vol 162, No. 5 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE Researchers evaluated 217 patients to determine the impact of exercise amount and intensity on obesity. Patients exercising at low amount and low intensity, at high amount and low intensity, and at high amount and high intensity had greater reduction in waist circumference and body weight than […]
The idea that dietary sugars increase the risk for such things as hypertension and the development of health threatening changes in lipid profiles is not new. But a commonly held perception has been that these health risks represented a direct consequence of the fact that increased dietary sugar consumption caused weight gain, and it was […]
Endocrine Disruptors Cause Range of Diseases; €157 Billion Cost Miriam E Tucker March 06, 2015 SAN DIEGO — Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals results in a range of human diseases and abnormalities, costing a total of roughly €157 billion (about $175 billion) annually in the European Union, a new analysis shows. The findings were presented March 5 at […]
March 02, 2015 Circulation: Heart Failure CIRCHEARTFAILURE.114.001837 Published online before print February 13, 2015, doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.114.001837 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE A large prospective cohort study of 31,155 patients examined the association between body mass index (BMI) and heart failure risk among those with type 2 diabetes. A significant increased risk for heart failure was associated with increasing BMI […]
BY JANICE NEUMANN Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:13pm EST (Reuters Health) – Excess pounds and smoking might each raise the likelihood of frequent heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to a large study from Norway. Other factors linked to higher odds of new GERD symptoms included getting older, being a woman, having less education, […]
THURSDAY, Feb. 26, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Abdominal obesity is associated with increased risk of hip fracture, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine.Anne Johanne Søgaard, Ph.D., from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, and colleagues examined the correlations of waist circumference, hip circumference, […]
Risk Factors on the Development of New-Onset Gastroesophageal Reflux Symptoms. A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study: The HUNT Study Andreas Hallan BSc, Med Am J Gastroenterol advance online publication 10 February 2015; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2015.18 Abstract Objectives: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a highly prevalent disorder. This study assessed the risk factors of new-onset gastroesophageal reflux symptoms […]
01/30/2015 Maturitas Baena R, et al. – The aim of this report is to present a review of the published epidemiologic research to date reflecting the most current scientific evidence related to diet and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. CRC is a preventable disease through the modification of associated risk factors, including physical inactivity, obesity […]
Jenni Laidman January 20, 2015 Prolonged sitting was associated with higher mortality from all causes, as well as increased incidence of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes, even among people who exercise regularly, according to a meta-analysis published in the January 20 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. However, the analysis of 47 previously published articles […]
Lisa Nainggolan January 15, 2015 Fresh evidence that just a little bit of exercise, such as 20 minutes walking a day, is extremely beneficial — regardless of whether people are overweight/obese or not — has emerged from a large European study. In fact, the most pronounced reduction in premature death risk was observed among individuals who were […]
To this day, you still see products in grocery stores labeled, “low fat” as if this somehow translates into meaning the product is more healthful. Obviously the manufacturers of these products feel that there still is enough consensus in terms of the public’s perception that low fat is a good thing. So they persist in […]
Other factors include female gender, previous knee injury, age, and presence of hand OA. Familiar risk factors for knee osteoarthritis (OA) in individuals 50 years and older — high body mass index (BMI), previous knee injury, age, female sex, and the presence of hand OA — were confirmed as the condition’s top drivers in a […]