Obesity News

Children with overweight and obesity experienced notable improvements in health outcomes after participating in a lifestyle treatment program through a pediatric obesity clinic and local parks and recreation facility.

Adults with obesity who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass achieved a greater excess BMI loss at 10 years compared with those who underwent a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, according to data published in JAMA Surgery.

The percentage of U.S. adults with obesity did not significantly rise from 2013 to 2023, though a small uptick in the rate of obesity was seen for children and adolescents, according to data published in JAMA.

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2, or SGLT2, inhibitors may be more cardioprotective for older adults, whereas glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists may confer greater HbA1c reductions in that population, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Women with hypertension who followed a very low-calorie ketogenic diet had greater reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure than those who engaged in intermittent fasting, researchers reported.

Surrogate measures of insulin resistance, based on the triglyceride-glucose index, can be used to predict the development of osteoarthritis, according to data published in Scientific Reports.

Carbonated water may indirectly produce weight loss by boosting metabolism and blood glucose uptake, according to a brief report in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.

Central obesity measures of waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio appear to be more accurate and consistent indicators of colorectal cancer incidence compared with BMI, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

A randomized controlled trial demonstrated a significantly reduced incidence of type 2 diabetes among individuals with metabolic syndrome who received daily metformin with or without a Mediterranean diet intervention.