Obesity
News
AACE: New algorithm stresses lifestyle modification in type 2 diabetes
Conference Coverage
SABCS: Longer overnight fasting may reduce breast cancer recurrence risk
Lengthening the overnight fasting interval to at least 13 hours may be a novel, easily adoptable strategy to reduce breast cancer recurrence risk...
Conference Coverage
AHA: Bariatric surgery slashes heart failure exacerbations
Bariatric surgery in obese patients with heart failure results in a dramatic reduction in ED visits and hospital admission for heart failure.
News
Sugary beverages tied to increased visceral fat
Key clinical point: Daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with a 27% increase in visceral adipose tissue. Major finding:...
Guidelines
How new dietary guidelines affect health care providers
While the new dietary guidelines, released jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department Agriculture, are geared...
Conference Coverage
Moderate, intensive exercise cut triglycerides equally in NAFLD
Moderate and intensive aerobic exercise, done regularly, are equally effective in reducing the intrahepatic triglyceride level in patients with...
News
Does poverty predetermine pediatric obesity?
Childhood obesity and poverty are increasingly linked, socioeconomic data indicate.
Conference Coverage
Smartphone app simultaneously improves multiple chronic disease risk behaviors
Remote coaching supported by a smartphone app can simultaneously improve multiple unhealthy lifestyle behaviors.
Conference Coverage
67% of teens have substantial cardiometabolic risk burden, blood donor survey shows
Key clinical point: Two-thirds of 16- to 19-year-olds have borderline or frank hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and/or high blood glucose....
News
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease will keep rising ‘in near term’
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) almost tripled among United States veterans in a recent 9-year period, investigators reported.
News
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease linked to liver cancer without cirrhosis
About 13% of U.S. veterans with hepatocellular carcinoma had no evidence of preexisting cirrhosis, researchers reported in the January issue of...