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Top 5 online obesity stories posted in the last month
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Endocrine Today compiled a list of the top five news reports on diabetes posted from June 7 to July 7.
Healio.com/Endocrinology readers were interested in short sleep duration and its effect on obesity risk in children, resting-state brain activity in women with obesity, effect of a procedure-free gastric balloon on weight loss, and much more.
Short sleep duration may increase obesity risk in children
Children and adolescents who are considered short sleepers are twice as likely to develop overweight or obesity vs. those who sleep for a longer duration, according to a recent meta-analysis.
“Some epidemiologic studies have observed associations of either short or long sleep duration with obesity, and the relationship between duration of sleep and obesity is U-shaped among adults,” Yanhui Wu, of Yinzhou Hospital and the Medical School of Ningbo University in China, and colleagues wrote. “However, the results of longitudinal associations between sleep duration and obesity were conflicting. Meta-analysis might help to resolve this inconsistency.” Read more.
Altered resting-state brain activity observed in women with obesity
Regions of the brain involved in food processing are more active in women with obesity vs. normal-weight women, independent of food intake, according to recent study findings.
Pleunie S. Hogenkamp , PhD, of the department of neuroscience at Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues analyzed data from 17 women with severe obesity who were seeking to undergo bariatric surgery at University Hospital of Uppsala (mean age, 39 years; mean BMI, 43.2 kg/m²) and 12 normal-weight women who served as controls (mean age, 36 years; mean BMI, 22.7 kg/m²). Read more.
Procedure-free gastric balloon safe, effective for weight loss
A new procedure-free gastric balloon was found safe and effective for weight loss with results comparable to those observed with other balloon procedures that use endoscopy, according to study findings presented at the European Obesity Summit.
Elipse, developed by Allurion Technologies in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is a balloon that is swallowed and then filled with 550 mL of fluid through a thin delivery catheter. The balloon is excreted after 4 months. Read more.
High-fat Mediterranean diet effects similar to low-fat diet
Spanish adults at high risk for cardiovascular disease assigned an unrestricted-calorie, high-vegetable-fat Mediterranean diet saw greater decreases in body weight and less gain in central adiposity vs. adults assigned to a control diet and advised to reduce dietary fat, according to results from a 5-year randomized controlled trial.
“More than 40 years of nutritional policy has advocated for a low-fat diet, but we’re seeing little impact on rising levels of obesity,” Ramon Estruch, MD, PhD, senior consultant in the internal medicine department of the Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain, said in a press release. “Our study shows that a Mediterranean diet rich in vegetable fats, such as olive oil and nuts, had little effect on body weight or waist circumference compared to people on a low-fat diet.” Read more.
Weight-management apps popular, but development by certified health organization unlikely
Mobile apps on weight management are widely available, but very few have been developed by a certified health organization or university, according to study findings presented at the European Obesity Summit.
“There are no published data on effectiveness of apps for weight management or weight-gain prevention, to date,” wrote Charoula Nikolaou, PhD, MSc, BSc, RD, of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and Mike Lean, FRCP, FRCPS, of the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Read more.