ALLMedicine™ Obesity Center

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Neck circumference (NC) has been used for screening overweight/obesity for its high correlation with age, weight, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference (WC). Cut-offs should be population specific. The aim of the study was to obtain cut-o...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - People suffering from extreme obesity may be exposed to delayed diagnosis and treatment of cancer. A 37-year-old woman (weight = 245 kg, body mass index (BMI) = 79 kg/m2), presented a sepsis associated with nonspecific abdominal pain for 4 months....

Mar 2nd, 2021 - To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) as an endometrial cancer prevention strategy in women with obesity. A Markov decision-analytic model was used to compare 5 strategies in women with a body mass ...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Obesity is a multifactorial disease characterized by fat accumulation, usually associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which can lead to advanced fibrosis or even cirrhosis. Bariatric surgery (BS) is a treatment approved for weight loss...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Obesity is the most common cause of insulin resistance, and the current obesity epidemic is driving a parallel rise in the incidence of T2DM. It is now widely recognized that chronic, subacute tissue inflammation is a major etiologic component of ...

Feb 1st, 2021 - Too much white fat, a characteristic of obesity, has been shown to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and other diseases. A less common type of fat, called brown fat, uses blood sugar and fat molecules to create heat and he...

Jan 18th, 2021 - Globally, increasing rates of obesity are one of the most important health issues. The association between breakfast skipping and body weight is contradictory between cross-sectional and interventional studies. This systematic review and meta-anal...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Several epidemiological studies and clinical trials have reported the beneficial effects of green tea, coffee, wine, and curry on human health, with its anti-obesity, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, and neuroprotective properties. These effects, which...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Breakfast is widely considered the most important meal of the day. Despite this, the consumption of ready to eat industrial products with low nutritional value is increasing. This study correlated longitudinally the nutritional value of breakfast ...

Jan 10th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been declared a pandemic, has exhibited a wide range of severity worldwide. Although this global variation is largely affected by socio-medical situations in each country, there is also high individua...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Neck circumference (NC) has been used for screening overweight/obesity for its high correlation with age, weight, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference (WC). Cut-offs should be population specific. The aim of the study was to obtain cut-o...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - People suffering from extreme obesity may be exposed to delayed diagnosis and treatment of cancer. A 37-year-old woman (weight = 245 kg, body mass index (BMI) = 79 kg/m2), presented a sepsis associated with nonspecific abdominal pain for 4 months....

Mar 2nd, 2021 - To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) as an endometrial cancer prevention strategy in women with obesity. A Markov decision-analytic model was used to compare 5 strategies in women with a body mass ...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Obesity is a multifactorial disease characterized by fat accumulation, usually associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which can lead to advanced fibrosis or even cirrhosis. Bariatric surgery (BS) is a treatment approved for weight loss...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Obesity is the most common cause of insulin resistance, and the current obesity epidemic is driving a parallel rise in the incidence of T2DM. It is now widely recognized that chronic, subacute tissue inflammation is a major etiologic component of ...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Girls with more body fat experienced earlier menarche and hormone changes, but later full breast development, compared with those with normal weight, according to longitudinal data from 90 girls aged 8-15 years. A link between obesity and early pu...

Feb 24th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are attributable to four preexisting cardiometabolic conditions, a new study sugges...

Feb 24th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In transgender and gender-diverse young people receiving sex steroids, obesity exacerbates the decrease in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels and attenuates the benefits of estradiol, researchers say. "...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Results showing once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide, as an adjunct to intensive behavioral therapy and an initial low calorie diet, induced weight loss that was 10.3% greater compared with placebo over 68 weeks in people with obesity or overweigh...

Feb 21st, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Metformin had "modest" beneficial effects on weight and insulin resistance among obese young children in a systematic review. "Given the results of our study, metformin may be considered as an add-on therapy in children...