Obesity
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Weight Loss After Roux-en-Y Tied to Type 2 Diabetes Reversal
Major Finding: Up to 73% of obese patients with type 2 diabetes had normalized blood glucose after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.Data Source:...
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Study Backs Intervention to Cut Teens' Sugary Drink Intake
Major Finding: The between-group differences for changes in body mass index and weight among the 224 participants randomized to the intervention...
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Linezolid Bests Vancomycin in Obese MRSA Pneumonia Patients
Major Finding: Clinical success – ICU or hospital discharge by day 14 in the absence of death, therapy change, or intubation – is more likely when...
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Gastric Bypass Benefits Persist at 6 Years' Follow-Up
Major Finding: Six years after undergoing gastric bypass, patients showed a mean weight loss of 28%, a diabetes remission rate of 62%, a...
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Olanzapine Weight Gain May Start in the Brain
Major Finding: Normal-weight subjects who took olanzapine for 1 week gained a mean of 1 kg, and showed functional changes in brain regions...
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Glycemic Variation Increased in Nondiabetic Obese People
Major Finding: Continuous glucose meter readings showed a standard deviation of 24 mg/dL in obese people with normal glycemic status or...
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Tomatoes Boosted Low HDL in Small Study
Major Finding: Eating two midsize tomatoes per day for 1 month led to a mean 5 mg/dL increase in HDL in a randomized trial involving men and women...
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Fight Obesity with Specific, Countable Goals
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Finally! The Dessert-With-Breakfast Diet
Major Finding: Obese, nondiabetic patients assigned to a weight-loss diet emphasizing a high-protein, high-carbohydrate breakfast including a...
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More Americans Walking but Still Far From Fit
Major Finding: Approximately 62% of both men and women reported being walkers in 2010, compared with approximately 54% and 57%, respectively, in...
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Last 20 Years: U.S. Youth Lipid Profiles Have Improved
Major Finding: Over the 20-year study period, children and adolescents showed a 5-mg/dL decrease in mean serum total cholesterol, an 8-mg/dL drop...