Obesity and Weight Management News

ARFID or Reasonable Food Restriction? The Jury Is Out Don't jump to conclusions about avoidant restrictive food intake disorder in patients with gastrointestinal diseases, psychologists advise.
Medscape Medical News, February 04, 2022
MS Fatigue Consistently Linked With Depressive Symptoms Results from a network analysis could illuminate the mechanism of fatigue in multiple sclerosis and enable research into more effective treatments.
First Look, February 03, 2022
AHA Annual Stats Update Highlights Heart-Brain Connection The American Heart Association has added a separate chapter on brain health and how it relates to CVD in its annual statistical update on heart disease and stroke.
Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2022
'Deaths of Despair' Rising, but Only in the US US mortality rates are high and increasing among working-age adults, and "deaths of despair" from suicide, alcohol poisoning, and drug overdose are major contributors.
Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2022
'Lucky Genes' May Protect Against Some Obesity-Related Diseases Some people with obesity 'are luckier and have genes that mean higher fat under the skin but lower liver fat and a lower risk of diseases like type 2 diabetes,' says author of genetic study.
Medscape Medical News, February 02, 2022
Are Dermatologists Interested in Managing CVD Risk in Psoriasis? The authors of the study see their findings as an early but promising step in finding better models to improve cardiovascular outcomes for patients with psoriatic disease.
Medscape Medical News, February 01, 2022
Emotional Eating May Override GLP-1 Agonist Weight Loss Effect GLP-1 receptor agonists work partly by reducing appetite, but people with emotional eating may disregard satiety signals.
Medscape Medical News, February 01, 2022
US Diabetes Deaths Top 100,000 for Second Straight Year More than 100,000 Americans died from diabetes in 2021, marking the second consecutive year for that grim milestone and spurring a call for a federal mobilization similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Reuters Health Information, January 31, 2022
Interventions Urged to Curb Metabolic Syndrome in Kids Metabolic syndrome is rising globally among young people, with close to 26 million children and 36 million adolescents affected, according to a landmark systematic review and modeling analysis.
Reuters Health Information, January 28, 2022
Olympic Champion Lundby Laments Ski Jumping's Weight Issues Over the past few months, Lundby has emerged as an advocate for change in a sport that has historically had athletes develop eating disorders as teenagers to be as light as possible.
Associated Press, January 27, 2022
Good Genes Can Protect Obese People From Some Diseases While obesity often puts people at risk for numerous diseases, geneticists from the University of Exeter say the overriding predictor of whether someone will develop these issues are their genes.
Quick Take, January 27, 2022
'Physiology Fights Back' When People Are Trying to Lose Weight 'Individuals who are struggling to achieve weight loss goals, despite assuring compliance with [a] diet, may indeed be 'suffering' from metabolic adaptation during active weight loss,' say researchers.
Medscape Medical News, January 27, 2022
RAD 2021 Increased Dosing Can Benefit Overweight Patients With Psoriasis 'Weight may have an impact on pharmacokinetics and, therefore, on the clinical outcome of biologic treatment for psoriasis,' the authors commented.
Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
High Rates of Obesity, CKD Found in Type 1 Diabetes Rates of obesity are as high in people with type 1 diabetes as in the general population, and rates of kidney disease are higher than in people with type 2 diabetes after adjusting for age.
Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2022
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome Ups Risk in DKA Hospitalization Among US patients hospitalized for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), those with obesity hypoventilation syndrome had a higher risk of in-hospital mortality and other adverse outcomes.
First Look, January 21, 2022
Parent Group Warns of Social Media/Eating Disorders Link A 2.5 million-member advocacy group sent an advisory warning that social media’s January onslaught of messages for dieting and weight loss may be harmful to kids struggling with weight and body image.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
Trial Will Test Synthetic Cannabinoid for Weight Loss in Obesity Although marijuana leads to the munchies, it is paradoxically tied to lower BMI. Following promising mouse studies, researchers will test the synthetic cannabinoid nabilone for weight loss in humans.
Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
Subclinical Atrial Disease: A Window to Prevent AF and HF? Atrial fibrillation and heart failure may arise from the same 'common soil' of pathogenic mechanisms, rather than one begetting the other, European researchers propose.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2022
Group Psychosocial Therapy Shows Promise for Binge Eating People with binge eating disorder may have been bullied as children, 'coped' by overeating, and felt shame and stigma. A targeted psychosocial program may help, a feasibility study suggests.
Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2022
As Omicron Surges, Effort to Vaccinate Young Children Stalls Just 18% of 5- to 11-year-olds are vaccinated, with rates varying sharply across the US, a KHN analysis of federal data shows. Pediatricians say the slow pace and geographic disparities are alarming.
Kaiser Health News, January 14, 2022

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