Overweight

SAN ANTONIO — Due to structural barriers such as low income and inadequate insurance coverage, Black and Hispanic adults were more likely to ration prescription drugs to save money, researchers reported.

SAN ANTONIO — At 24 months, children who received a health literacy-informed digital text and web-based intervention had better weight trajectories vs. those who did not, according to Greenlight Plus Trial results presented at ObesityWeek.

Sending young children from low-income households to free summer day camps could help reduce gains in BMI during summer break, according to a randomized clinical trial in JAMA Pediatrics.

BOSTON — In a survey, cardiology physicians expressed hesitancy to prescribe currently available obesity medications, preferring exercise and dietary interventions, but with little personalized tailoring for patients, researchers reported.

A novel oral GLP-1 receptor agonist was well-tolerated and linked with weight loss compared with placebo in healthy adults with overweight or obesity, according to top-line results of a phase 1 study.

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.

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.

WASHINGTON — Among adults with eosinophilic esophagitis, weight gain while undergoing dietary therapy was associated with poor treatment response, regardless of baseline weight status, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

Obesity and overweight were associated with an increased risk for iron deficiency in children and young adults, findings published in BMJ Global Health showed.