Obesity
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‘Don’t Screen’ for Vitamin D: New Endo Society Guideline
Recommendations call for limiting vitamin D in certain groups, and against routine screening in healthy patients.
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Semaglutide Improves Taste Sensitivity in Women With Obesity
Proof-of-concept study suggests GLP-1s may help with taste sensitivity and alter genes linked to developing tastebuds.
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‘Ozempic Burgers’ Offer Indulgences to People With Obesity
Burgers aimed at those taking GLP-1s will be smaller and lower calorie, but with higher levels of fat and protein than regular-size burgers.
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How Can Patients With Diabetes and Obesity Lose Weight?
Both exercise and medication are important to large, maintained weight loss.
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Semaglutide Kidney Benefits Extend to Those Without Diabetes
The kidney benefits observed in patients who are at high risk of kidney disease but do not yet have diabetes or chronic kidney disease is...
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Semaglutide Aids Weight Loss With or Without Bariatric Surgery
In a comparison of people who had weight loss surgery with those who had not, total weight loss was almost identical: 5.8% in those who had...
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Novel Score Predicts Weight Loss With Semaglutide in T2D
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Add-On to GLP-1s Yields Greater Weight Loss
Those who received bupropion/naltrexone with GLP-1 therapy lost about 5% of body weight.
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Losing Muscle with GLP-1 RAs? There May be a Drug for That
While rapid weight loss often means muscle mass loss, the impact of GLP-1 RAs is not known, and new medications may slow muscle loss.
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Obesity and Cancer: Untangling a Complex Web
Is gaining weight later in life better or worse for cancer risk than being overweight or obese from a young age?
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GI Complications With GLP-1s for Weight Loss: Reexamining the Risks
The researchers found no significant association between GLP-1s and acute pancreatitis.