Weight Loss

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery may be associated with greater weight loss, diabetes control and lower risk for major adverse cardiovascular events compared with sleeve gastrectomy, according to findings published in Diabetes Care.

Certain baseline gut microbiome features correlated with future changes in weight following intervention, according to study results published in mSystems, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Fetal and infant environments do not cause type 2 diabetes or obesity. Instead, these environments make type 2 diabetes and obesity much more likely because they change the sensitivity of the individual to the obesogenic and metabolic milieu after birth.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity continues to rise in the United States and globally at an alarming rate. By 2025, data from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration suggest 18% of men and 21% of women globally will have obesity.

A comprehensive secondary prevention program achieved significantly increased weight-loss rates in patients with CAD who were overweight, researchers reported in Heart.

Vegetarian and vegan diets provide greater reductions in body weight, fat mass and LDL cholesterol and improved insulin sensitivity compared with other plant-based eating patterns, such as a Mediterranean diet, according to two speakers.

Despite weight-loss benefits for secondary CHD prevention, obesity management remains prevalent and challenging, especially among women and younger individuals, according to study findings.

Adults with obesity participating in a real-world, employer-based weight-management program were significantly more likely to achieve clinically meaningful weight loss when adding pharmacotherapy to shared monthly visits, data show.

U.S. adults participating in a digital weight-management program lost less weight in the first 7 weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic vs. participants from a year prior, but the changes did not persist long term, according to study data.

Most studies on dietary supplements and alternative therapies for weight loss are considered low quality due to small sample size, short follow-up and poor design, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis.