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Update Coming for Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy Guidelines
Age over 30 years, having at least two prior pregnancies, and morbid obesity (body mass index [BMI] at least 40 kg/m2), will no longer...
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Do Patients on Anti-Obesity Drugs Decrease Alcohol Use?
This new study is the first to examine the relationship with different classes of anti-obesity medications and to quantify the amount of alcohol...
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Knowledge Gaps About Obesity Medicine Seen in Primary Care
“The treatment of obesity as a disease, especially with some of the newer medical treatments, is not standard of care and practiced widely.”
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Patients With IBD More Likely to Develop, or Have Prior, T1D
Patients with IBD had a moderately increased risk for T1D and higher odds of having prior T1D than the general population.
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Coming Soon: A New Disease Definition, ‘Clinical Obesity’
“I think it’ll help explain and move medicine as a whole in a direction to a greater understanding of obesity actually being a disease, how to...
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ATA: Updates on Risk, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
Researchers compared medical records of adults with type 2 diabetes and moderate cardiovascular risk who were new users of GLP-1 receptor agonists...
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Weight Loss Drugs Don’t Reduce Oocyte Retrieval
The use of glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists within a year had no apparent effect on the number of oocytes retrieved in controlled ovarian...
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GLP-1 RAs Reduce Early-Onset CRC Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
The incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer is notably rising in younger adults, with a corresponding increase in associated mortality.
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Cancer’s Other Toll: Long-Term Financial Fallout for Survivors
Patients with cancer face a range of financial challenges that often lasted years following their diagnosis.
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Can Weight Loss Drugs Also Treat Addiction?
The study highlights the importance of interdisciplinary research in understanding the neurobiological links between metabolic disorders and...
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Obesity Therapies: What Will the Future Bring?
“I believe that obesity won’t be cured in the future, but we will have increasingly better lifelong management with a multidisciplinary approach...