Obesity News

The 20th annual World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease will offer a unique blend of basic and clinical science across cardiometabolic disciplines while also providing practical implications for patient care.

It has long been said that the best way to treat obesity is to eat a healthy, reduced-calorie diet and exercise regularly.

Adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and severe obesity have a lower risk for cardiovascular disease if they undergo bariatric surgery vs. those who do not have surgery, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Clinical and imaging findings of children with type 1 diabetes and obesity were similar to those for children without diabetes with similar degrees of obesity, according study results published in Journal of Diabetes and its Complications.

Setmelanotide led to significant reductions in weight among people with obesity and the genetic disorder Bardet-Biedl syndrome, but not Alström syndrome, according to findings published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

Best diabetes medical treatment was just as effective in albuminuria remission as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for adults with diabetic kidney disease and obesity, according to study results published in eClinical Medicine.

Updates to the 1991 NIH statement on gastrointestinal surgery for severe obesity include recommendations for metabolic and bariatric surgery, BMI threshold adjustments and consideration of surgery for children and adolescents.

Weight loss reduced hedonic hunger independently of modality, and bariatric surgery resulted in several beneficial changes in food reward and preferences, according to trial data published in Obesity.

SAN DIEGO — Children in an underserved community who increased the number of times per week they ate breakfast had lower fasting insulin and insulin resistance than those who ate breakfast less often, according to a speaker.

Marijuana has implications for weight and metabolism — but perhaps not in the ways one might expect, according to a speaker at the 2022 Overcoming Obesity conference.