Obesity News

Drugs used to treat diabetes and obesity, such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, are becoming an important treatment pathway in rheumatology, according to a presenter at the 2024 Association of Women in Rheumatology annual conference.

The FDA is warning providers and patients that dosing errors with compounded injectable semaglutide may be leading to adverse events, according to a press release.

There are many important factors primary care providers must consider when prescribing popular anti-obesity medications, according to experts.

In October 2023, the American Heart Association unveiled the term cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome to reflect the connection between metabolic and renal conditions associated with risk for heart disease.

Patients with severe obesity undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for weight loss demonstrated greater reductions in blood lipids at 6 weeks vs. those on a very low-energy diet, according to study results in JAMA Surgery.

New prescriptions of GLP-1 receptor agonists for the treatment of obesity have increased significantly among individuals without type 2 diabetes in the last decade, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In a single-center cohort of patients with heart failure and obesity, weight-loss surgery led to improved clinical outcomes including reduced BMI and HbA1c and less reliance on diuretics, researchers reported.

People with excess adiposity in young adulthood were more likely to have adverse cardiac structure and function later in life compared with people without it, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal.

GLP-1 receptor agonist use in diabetes and obesity has soared, and indications are now expanding into liver diseases, specifically metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis. However, the jury is still out on its benefits.

Fetal growth rate is higher for women with gestational diabetes in the third trimester, and that accelerated growth rate may contribute to an increased likelihood for overweight among children, according to study data from Denmark.