Weight Loss

Along with close monitoring, incorporating “fad diets” into more evidence-based weight loss approaches may improve outcomes for patients with kidney disease, according to a former dialysis dietician who now works in CKD research.

Intermittent fasting, specifically time-restricted eating, may be a safe and viable weight loss tool for adults with obesity and lead to naturally decreased caloric intake, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek Interactive.

Recent weight changes, as well as high variability in weight, predict cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Providers should focus on the volume of physical activity performed by individuals with obesity and motivate them to get the most success in maintaining weight loss, according to a speaker at the virtual Cardiometabolic Health Congress.

Weight loss after a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy correlated with significant improvements in metabolic parameters, liver enzyme levels and liver histopathology, according to study results.

A formal diagnosis of obesity on the same day as an initial recorded weight is independently associated with weight loss 9 to 15 months later, according to a large analysis of electronic health care records.

Participants in the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial’s counter-weight plus intervention had a higher diabetes remission rate and were projected to have lower lifetime health care costs compared with controls, according to study data.

The efficacy of an investigational, once-weekly insulin therapy was similar to daily insulin glargine in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to data from a phase 2 trial. It was the top story in endocrinology last week.

Patients with obesity and diabetes who underwent metabolic surgery may have to lose less weight to reduce the risk for major adverse CV events compared with those who did not undergo surgery, researchers found.

Weight loss can help the pancreas return to its normal size and shape for people experiencing type 2 diabetes remission, according to a presenter at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes virtual meeting.