Unhealthy Heart Behaviors: Getting Ahead of the Curve
The American Heart Association (AHA) has set a 2020 goal of improving the heart health of all...
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Substance & Alcohol Use After Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been an effective treatment for many patients with clinically severe...
Can Financial Incentives for Patients Induce Weight Loss?
Several studies have suggested that financial incentives appear to help overweight and obese...
Innovative Techniques to Address Bariatric Surgery Complications
Millions of patients find it extremely difficult to achieve durable weight loss without medical...
Can Dreaming About Exercising Lead to Weight Loss?
I was about to write one of my infrequent but famous spoof articles, and the subject was going to be losing weight by dreaming about exercising. For fun, I decided to search the Internet to see if anyone else might have had the...
Recommendations Unveiled for Obesity Screening & Management
The United States Preventive Services Task Force has release a recommendation statement on screening for obesity and managing the condition in adults. Available for free at http://annals.org, the statement recommends that all...
Comparing Weight Loss Approaches
American research suggests that use of a standard behavioral weight loss intervention (SBWI) appears to result in greater weight loss than use of a stepped-care weight loss intervention (STEP) in overweight and obese adults....
BMI Predicts Postoperative 30-Day Mortality
Researchers at the University of Virginia have found that BMI appears to significantly predict 30-day mortality following surgery, even after adjusting for surgery type and expected risk of death. Study participants with a BMI...
New Guidelines for Assessing Adiposity
The rate of obesity in the United States has reached the epidemic level despite efforts by healthcare providers and patients to improve health-related behaviors and increased efforts to better understand its pathophysiology....
Bariatric Surgery for Diabetes: Significant Benefits Observed
In the United States, more than 90% of 25.8 million adults with diabetes have type 2 disease, according to the CDC. More than 1.9 million cases were diagnosed in 2010 alone among adults aged 20 and older. Approximately 90% of...
Strategies for Improving Diabetes Care
This Physician’s Weekly feature was completed in cooperation with the experts at the American Diabetes Association. Over the last decade, healthcare providers in primary care settings and endocrinology practices have seen...
Comparing Efficacy of Weight-Loss Procedures
When compared with laparoscopic bypass procedures, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery appears to have similar rates of overall complications and lower rates of reoperations when these operations are performed in high-volume...
