“Bariatric surgery” refers to several different surgical procedures designed to assist weight loss by limiting the amount of food someone eats or the amount they absorb during digestion. It has been used for several years to treat obesity in adults….
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The discrimination that obese people feel, whether it is poor service at a restaurant or being treated differently in the workplace, may have a direct impact on their physical health, according to new research from Purdu…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Excessive weight gain isn’t healthy at any stage of life, but during pregnancy it can do lasting harm to the mother and baby alike. Now researchers at Brown University and The Miriam Hospital are encouraged b…
UPTON, NY – A brain imaging study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory reveals a subtle difference between ordinary obese subjects and those who compulsively overeat, or binge: In binge eaters but not ordinary obes…
SAN DIEGO, CA — Knee pain related to osteoarthritis (OA) is a common complaint among obese individuals and retired professional athletes, especially former NFL players, but researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for …
Knee replacement surgery takes far more time to conduct in overweight and obese patients than in normal weight patients, according to recent research at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. The study will be presented at the American Academy of…
More than 14 million visits were made to physicians’ offices in 2008 by patients with knee problems. Five new studies presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) look at the effect that obesity has on …
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 2, 2011) — Obesity among women of childbearing age is increasing worldwide. Because babies of obese mothers are themselves predisposed to obesity, society can reasonably expect the epidemic of obese and overweight people to cont…
VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED LUNG FUNCTION
New research shows that vitamin D deficiency is prevalent among patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD), with the largest prevalence seen in patients with concurrent connective tis…
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Are some children genetically tuned to be overweight, or is lifestyle to blame for childhood obesity?
Check-ups of 1,003 Michigan 6th graders in a school-based health program showed children who are obese were more likely to c…
PROVIDENCE, RI — Does obesity tend to “cluster” among young adults? And if so, what impact does it have on both their weight and weight-related behaviors? That’s what researchers from The Miriam Hospital’s Weight Control and Diabetes Research Cent…
Addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity.
The researchers noted that the association between a family history of alcoholism …
