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...
Jan 21, 2014
The American Heart Association (AHA) has set a 2020 goal of improving the heart health of all...
Oct 21, 2013
Weight loss surgery (WLS) has been an effective treatment for many patients with clinically severe...
Oct 18, 2013
Several studies have suggested that financial incentives appear to help overweight and obese...
Aug 27, 2013
Millions of patients find it extremely difficult to achieve durable weight loss without medical...
Aug 19, 2013
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...
Nov 19, 2012
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...
Sep 26, 2012
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....
Jul 26, 2012
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...
Jun 19, 2012
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....
Apr 24, 2012
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...
Nov 9, 2011
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...
May 16, 2011
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...