Obesity News

Once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg reduces the 10-year risk for developing type 2 diabetes by more than 60% for people with overweight or obesity, according to a speaker at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.

Adults who lose weight in the first 4 weeks of a behavioral weight-management program are more likely to have successful medium-term weight loss, according to a speaker at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting.

For a while now, I have wanted to write about Sarah Hallberg, DO, who died in March. I was not sure how best to tell the story about this champion whom I was blessed to have met in person.

Use of combined oral contraceptives in women with obesity may confer elevated CV risk in the form of venous and arterial thromboembolism, researchers reported.

Among a group of Canadian children in year 2 of kindergarten, those with overweight or obesity were twice as likely to be unready for school as their peers with normal weight, according to study data.

The 2012 Medicare change to cover sleeve gastrectomy, in addition to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, for bariatric surgery boosted its selection exponentially, with significant regional and temporal variation between states.

The number of infections in the first year of life was significantly associated with childhood obesity and was a stronger risk factor than antibiotic use, according to study data.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — In this Healio video exclusive, a speaker at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress Women’s Cardiometabolic Health and Wellness Masterclass discusses racial and ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic health.

Healio presents the following collection of FDA news related to gastroenterology, including the approval of generic diarrhea relief tablets, treatment for acid sphingomyelinase deficiency and biliary tract cancer, and more.

Adolescents who ate more candy, pastries and frozen desserts during the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to increase consumption of other ultra-processed foods compared with teens reporting eating fewer ultra-processed foods, data show.