Weight Loss

After a 16% weight loss, premenopausal women with overweight experienced metabolic adaptation associated with a longer time than predicted to achieve weight-loss goals, according to study results published in Obesity.

In a cohort of weight-loss maintainers, participants were often motivated by health and appearance concerns, and demonstrated improvements in these and other domains resulting from weight-loss efforts, recent research suggested.

Among adults with obesity participating in a telehealth intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic, weight loss was not significantly inferior to that seen with face-to-face programs, according to study data published in Obesity.

Adults who were overweight and extended the amount of time they normally slept lowered their daily energy consumption more than those who did not, data in JAMA Internal Medicine show.

Adolescent boys with severe obesity who lost weight loss with bariatric surgery saw increases in free and total testosterone, according to study findings published in the European Journal of Endocrinology.

Weight loss during the first 3 months of systemic therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer coincided with significantly shorter OS compared with stable or increasing weight, according to study results.

Among women with obesity and unexplained infertility, weight loss before infertility treatment did not increase the likelihood of having a healthy live birth, according to findings published in PLoS Medicine.

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults who lived in neighborhoods with greater social cohesion had both lower odds of obesity and higher odds of engaging in sufficient physical activity, according to data published in Obesity.

Combination therapy with a GLP-1 receptor agonist and an SGLT2 inhibitor may provide better weight-loss benefits than a single agent for women with polycystic ovary syndrome and obesity, according to study data.

Substantial weight loss after bariatric surgery was associated with improved COVID-19 outcomes compared with nonsurgical controls, including a 49% lower risk for hospitalization and a 60% lower risk for developing severe disease, data show.