Obesity
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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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Bariatric Surgery May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk for Some
“The surgical treatment benefit was predominantly seen in women with hyperinsulinemia, suggesting insulin may be used as a predictor of treatment...
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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.
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Genetic Test Can Predict Response to Semaglutide for Weight Loss
Further prospective studies are needed to assess the validity of the test in a more diverse population and with different weight loss...
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Is Body Fat a Better Measure of Obesity in Midlife Than BMI?
Body composition and changes due to age are not captured with BMI, study finds.