Body Mass Index
Type 1 diabetes risk rises with BMI during adolescence
NEW ORLEANS — Adolescents’ risk for developing type 1 diabetes rose with increasing BMI, according to data presented at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions and simultaneously published in Diabetologia.
Achieving biomarker goals extends life expectancy in type 2 diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes who achieved recommended targets for HbA1c, systolic blood pressure, LDL cholesterol and BMI had increased life expectancy, although the size of increase differed among the biomarkers, concluded recent research.
Gestational diabetes combined with overweight or obesity increases severe COVID-19 risk
Pregnant women with gestational diabetes, combined with periconceptional overweight or obesity, had an increased risk for severe COVID-19, according to results of a prospective observational study.
Osilodrostat improves physical manifestations of hypercortisolism for most adults
SAN DIEGO — Osilodrostat is associated with improvements in physical manifestations of hypercortisolism and reductions in mean body weight and BMI in adults with Cushing’s syndrome, according to a speaker.
CV risk factors in childhood can translate to CV events in midlife
WASHINGTON — Childhood risk factors and the change in combined-risk z score between childhood and adulthood were associated with CV events in midlife, researchers reported.
Obesity does not confer benefit in community-acquired pneumonia
Among patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia, those with obesity did not experience an improved time to clinical stability compared with their normal-weight counterparts, according to study data.
BMI, disease duration among predictors of NAFLD in Crohn’s patients in China
Lower birth weight tied to type 2 diabetes at younger age, lower BMI
Having a lower birth weight is associated with type 2 diabetes onset at a younger age, and those with a lower birth weight are also more likely to have a lower BMI at diagnosis, according to study findings published in Diabetic Medicine.
Differential treatment response does not explain higher survival in patients with obesity, PAH
Differential treatment response may not explain the survival benefit seen in some patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and obesity, researchers reported in Chest.
Higher risk of perinatal death in women with obesity linked to gestational age
Women with obesity had a higher risk for perinatal death, which was partly due to lower gestational age at delivery, data published in PLoS One showed.