Overweight

Obesity is rarely recorded as a cause of death at a United Kingdom teaching hospital, even though nearly half of people with a BMI of 30 kg/m² or greater died from an obesity-related illness, according to study data.

According to findings from a pilot study, adults with type 2 diabetes who replaced their usual meals with nutritional shakes experienced a 47% reduction in post-meal peak glucose.

Women with breast cancer and overweight or obesity had shorter DFS and OS than their lean counterparts after treatment with a docetaxel-based chemotherapy regimen, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Among individuals with European ancestry, genetic variants demonstrate a strong impact on gout risk in those with overweight or obese BMI, with a similar effect seen in those with normal or low BMI, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Children may be more likely to develop overweight or obesity if their mothers are exposed to high levels of paraben while pregnant, according to findings published in Nature Communications.

Using a polygenic risk score to project BMI progression into middle age may yield inferior results compared with using BMI earlier in life, according to findings published in JAMA Cardiology.

The International Severe Asthma Registry evaluated patients with asthma worldwide to describe demographic and clinical characteristics of these patients and the severity of the disease, according to a registry study published in CHEST.

Despite an increased risk for HF among patients with obesity, there was a paradoxical decline in all-cause mortality, according to a meta-analysis published in Heart.

Long-term effects of lifestyle intervention on CV outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and overweight or obesity.

Weight change across adulthood, even weight loss in later life, may increase an individual’s risk for all-cause and CV-related mortality, according to a study published in BMJ.