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Obesity may be one reason some countries or communities have been hit hard by the virus, researchers say. (hindustantimes.com)
It is called morbid obesity because a BMI over 35 is associated with a higher risk of death than overweight and mildly obese. (fexania.com)
It's not clear why an organization called the Obesity Society, writing in a journal titled Obesity, thinks people are needlessly distressed when they are labeled morbidly obese but are happy to be labeled obese. (fexania.com)
In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are overweight or obese, antidiabetic medications that have additional actions to promote weight loss (such as glucagonlike peptide-1 [GLP-1] analogs or sodium-glucose-linked transporter-2 [SGLT-2] inhibitors) are suggested, in addition to the first-line agent for type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity, metformin. (medscape.com)
For example, if a participant was 5;7" and normal weight, they would estimate normal weight as 143 pounds (BMI = 22.4 kg/m squared) and obesity as 189 pounds (BMI = 29.6 kg/m squared) but an obese participant the same height would estimate normal weight as 164 pounds (BMI = 25.7 kg/m squared) and obesity as 233 pounds (BMI - 36.5 kg/m squared. (news-medical.net)
But it still raises the question of why this happens: why don't the obese (people with obesity) lose more weight on low-calorie diets. (bodyrecomposition.com)
Researchers from Sehan University and Ewha Woman's University in South Korea examined the effects of auricular acupressure on obesity in adolescents. (naturalnews.com)
The researchers found that obesity doesn't seem to lessen the effectiveness of corticosteroid inhalers. (newsblaze.com)
To probe further into whether obesity impacts asthma severity and the effectiveness of inhalers in preschoolers, the researchers analyzed data from three randomized, controlled clinical trials. (newsblaze.com)
The researchers explored access to exercise facilities such as gym and obesity rates, Beddie says. (scoop.co.nz)
Severe obesity, which sets kids up for a lifetime of health problems, has increased over the past 14 years, North Carolina researchers found. (mentalhelp.net)
In the CDC study, published Feb. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association , researchers found a significant decrease in obesity among preschoolers -- from 14 percent in 2003-04 to about 8 percent in 2011-12. (mentalhelp.net)
Among girls, the researchers found obesity rates jumped from 14.5 percent in 1999-2000 to 17.4 percent by 2011-12. (mentalhelp.net)
Whether public health campaigns alone will turn around rates of severe obesity is questionable, the researchers said. (mentalhelp.net)
In a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, researchers found that a subset of obese people do not have common metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity, such as insulin resistance, abnormal blood lipids (high triglycerides and low HDL cholesterol), high blood pressure and excess liver fat. (biospace.com)
In a recent review published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin presented an overview of the pathophysiological mechanisms, health implications, and management options for obesity among children and adults. (news-medical.net)
Not all states are equal when it comes to obesity rates, according to a new Gallup-Healthways poll finding that Colorado has the fewest obese residents and West Virginia the most. (livescience.com)
Certain factors support the hypothesis that obesity played a part in tooth eruption, the researchers wrote -- notably, its link to faster growth and maturation and the association between pubertal timing and growth of the mandible. (drbicuspid.com)
After statistical analysis, the researchers found several different links between obesity and tooth eruption. (drbicuspid.com)
The correlation between obesity and the timing of tooth eruption can serve as an important consideration for oral healthcare providers, the researchers explained. (drbicuspid.com)
Using the children in class 1 as the reference or comparison group, the researchers found that those with class 2 or 3 obesity were about 1.6 to nearly two times as likely to have low levels of the so-called good (HDL) cholesterol. (telemundo.com)
When the researchers looked at blood sugar levels, kids with class 2 or 3 obesity were 1.5 to 2.6 times more likely to have blood sugar problems. (telemundo.com)
Skinner said the researchers can't explain why the boys seemed to be at higher risk from severe obesity. (telemundo.com)
The obesity epidemic is one of America's greatest health concerns: Roughly 79 million American adults are obese - more than one-third of adults in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control. (nocamels.com)
Obesity is a social disability as it prevents obese people from feeling safe in public. (nocamels.com)
Bariatric surgery gastric bypass (Roux-en Y) is a surgical procedure done to make the stomach smaller to treat severe obesity. (medindia.net)
Metabolically healthy obesity are obese people with no metabolic complications but are at higher risk of metabolic co-morbidities compared to normal people. (medindia.net)
This past May, Israeli researchers were able to establish a link between childhood obesity and cancer. (ou.org)
PFOA [perfluorooctanoic acid] and PFHxS [perfluorohexane sulfonate] may cause weight gain among people with obesity in weight loss programs," explained the researchers. (naturalnews.com)
It has been proposed that metabolically healthy obese individuals might be protected against obesity-related diseases. (theconversation.com)
Individuals with metabolically healthy obesity have lower risk of disease than those with metabolically unhealthy obesity, but still higher risk than non-obese, metabolically healthy individuals. (theconversation.com)
The fact that people with MHO still have a relatively higher disease risk led some researchers to suggest that the term "metabolically healthy obesity" could be a misnomer. (theconversation.com)
In what they're calling the "world's biggest obesity study," researchers from Imperial College London compared global body mass indices (BMI) from almost 20 million adults from 1975 to 2014. (voanews.com)
Severe obesity is also a rising concern, with researchers finding that 2.3 percent of men and 5 percent of women are severely obese, meaning they have a BMI of over 35 kilograms per square meter. (voanews.com)
Morbid obesity, when a person's basic activities are impaired by being overweight, affects 1 percent of men and 2 percent of women, researchers said, adding that there are now 55 million morbidly obese adults. (voanews.com)
If the obesity trend continues, researchers said, by 2025, 18 percent of the world's men and 21 percent of the world's women will be obese. (voanews.com)
Our research has shown that over 40 years we have transitioned from a world in which underweight prevalence was more than double that of obesity, to one in which more people are obese than underweight," said Ezzati. (voanews.com)
At the conclusion of the two-year study, the researchers found that increasing levels of omega-3 in the blood were associated with reduced breast density-but only in women with a body mass index above 29, bordering on obesity. (labroots.com)
The researchers called it a "contagion effect," and found that obesity spread more efficiently through networks of friends than through family members or neighbors. (time.com)
Similarly, the author of the new Texas study theorized that the high rate of obesity in the U.S., where two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, has helped normalize obesity in the public's perception. (time.com)
The prevalence of childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years, and more than one-third of US children and adolescents are overweight or obese (1,2). (cdc.gov)
Obesity of obesity, researchers around the treatment, and control and preven- is a major public health problem, world have recognized important tion of complications [13]. (who.int)
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Children with obesity are very likely to remain obese as adults and are at risk of chronic illness. (who.int)

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About 90 percent of normal weight adults and 85 percent of overweight and obese adults accurately self-reported their weight and height such that the BMI calculated using those self reports fell in the same category as actual BMI. (news-medical.net)
And even overweight and obese people who were deemed "healthy" by their metabolic markers carried a higher risk. (chronicle.gi)
There is a growing global body positivity movement to combat the stigma and prejudice that overweight and obese individuals face . (theconversation.com)
Overweight and obese adults have about 5 times higher odds of having ation in the magnitude or direction of outcome, indicating the lack metabolic syndrome than adults with normal or low body weight. (cdc.gov)
Although rates may be plateauing in some settings, in absolute numbers there are more children who are overweight and obese in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. (who.int)

Labeling the fattest category of people as "morbidly" obese is offensive, Woke researchers said today. (fexania.com)
It is insulting to refer to the fattest category of people as "morbidly" obese, thereby saying that their attempt at weight loss was a "failure. (fexania.com)
The advice, from the Dental Defence Union (DDU) which indemnifies dentists, comes as new figures show the number of 'morbidly obese' people in Britain has rocketed over the past 25 years. (schema-root.org)
Eight considered themselves morbidly obese. (nocamels.com)

The researcher then asked participants how much they would need to weigh to be classified as either underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese, and again the results varied depending on current weight status. (news-medical.net)
On average, normal weight participants were reasonably accurate in these estimates, but obese participants overstated how much they could weight for every weight status category, from underweight to obese. (news-medical.net)
Adiposity status was both self-rated by the study participants and measured by researchers. (cdc.gov)
The study involved 20 obese participants who were asked to gain about 15 pounds over several months to determine how the extra pounds affected their metabolic functions. (biospace.com)
Participants reported their height and weight, from which the researchers calculated body mass index. (livescience.com)
The researchers found that foods with a high glycemic index caused excessive amounts of hunger when the participants stopped feeling satiated, resulting in them wanting to eat more. (recipeland.com)
Researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University recently published An Exploratory Study About Obese People's Flight Experience in the Journal of Travel Research , where participants recounted the typical challenges they encounter while boarding, in-flight and deplaning. (nocamels.com)
Participants also got pedometers to keep track of their everyday walking totals, which proved a popular and easy way to motivate people to walk more, the researchers said. (utsa.edu)
The researchers also tested participants for the presence of a genetic variation linked to a lower number of dopamine D2 receptors, the Taq1A1 allele. (medindia.net)
For one year, the researchers tracked participants' changes in body mass index and found that participants with decreased striatal activation in response to the milkshake who also had the A1 allele were more likely to gain weight over time. (medindia.net)
In a study of 2,056 obese people in Dallas County (all participants had a body mass index, or BMI , of 30 or higher), researchers asked each participant to look at nine illustrations of bodies, from very thin to very obese. (time.com)
Level of education or money had no bearing on people's self-assessments, but race did: 14% of black participants had distorted body image, preferring an obese form, compared with 11% of Hispanics and just 2% of white respondents. (time.com)
For the study, researchers divided 294 moderately obese participants - the majority of whom were men - into three groups. (foxnews.com)
Researchers also upped the amount of vegetables participants were told to eat during the study. (foxnews.com)
Compared with the lowest quintile, the highest quintile of UPF consumption was associated with a 15% greater risk of becoming overweight or obese in participants with normal weight at recruitment, and with a 16% greater risk of becoming obese in participants who were overweight at recruitment. (who.int)

CHICAGO - Researchers using MRI have found signs of damage that may be related to inflammation in the brains of obese adolescents, according to a study being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). (eurekalert.org)
For the new study, researchers compared DTI results in 59 obese adolescents and 61 healthy adolescents, ages 12 to 16 years. (eurekalert.org)
The results showed a reduction of FA values in the obese adolescents in regions located in the corpus callosum, a bundle of nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain. (eurekalert.org)
Brain changes found in obese adolescents related to important regions responsible for control of appetite, emotions and cognitive functions," said study co-author Pamela Bertolazzi, a biomedical scientist and Ph.D. student from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. (eurekalert.org)
In the United States, approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2-19 are obese. (ou.org)

This percentage accounts for 34 million people of which 12 million are severely overweight, or obese. (researchgate.net)
Severely obese children are the ones most likely to have type 2 diabetes as teens and other problems such as heart disease later in life. (mentalhelp.net)
At 130 pounds, that boy would be severely obese. (mentalhelp.net)
Among obese kids, 8 percent were severely obese, the researchers said. (mentalhelp.net)
As a result, this means the actual burden of heart disease in obese children may have been -under--estimated in our study because the largest kids who may have been the most severely affected could not be enrolled," Jing said. (nbcnews.com)
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are severely obese, especially boys, have risk factors that increase their odds of getting heart disease and diabetes, new research finds. (telemundo.com)
Four percent of children were severely obese in 1999-2004. (telemundo.com)
By 2011-2012, 6 percent were severely obese, the study said. (telemundo.com)
Boys who were severely obese were more than seven times more likely to have high blood pressure than those who were mildly obese. (telemundo.com)
Muinos tells patients and their parents that children can get severely obese more easily than adults can, partly due to such factors as growth hormones. (telemundo.com)
The study found that China has the most obese people of any country and that the U.S. has the highest number of severely obese people. (voanews.com)

Six hundred and fifty million adults are obese worldwide. (scoop.co.nz)
The 2019-2020 New Zealand health survey reported almost a third (30.9 percent) of Kiwi adults are obese. (scoop.co.nz)

Worldwide, 1.9 billion people are obese, exposing them to serious health risks and overburdening healthcare systems. (schema-root.org)

In a first of its kind incident, obese kids hoodwinked researchers in a study by hooking up their pedometers to their pets' collars. (medindia.net)
The study included data from 5,426 non obese patients and 23,157 overweight patients. (aasm.org)
The study, led by Australian researchers, examined over 7000 patients from eleven different countries who were admitted to 18 hospitals. (hindustantimes.com)
A new study has found that Covid-19 patients who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop a more severe infection than patients of healthy weight, and they require oxygen and invasive mechanical ventilation more often. (hindustantimes.com)
Along with Makary, other Hopkins researchers involved in this study include Andrew D. Shore, Ph.D. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
In a study spearheaded by researchers from Duke Health and collaborators, children ages 2 to 5 who are overweight and weren't using an inhaler had 70 percent more days with asthma symptoms per year than untreated peers of a healthy weight. (newsblaze.com)
After 35 days, obese mice treated with the bioengineered GDF15 proteins lost roughly 20% of their body weight, while mice getting a placebo gained about 6% over their starting weight, according to the study. (latimes.com)
In addition, obese people who didn't have these metabolic problems when the study began did not develop them even after they gained more weight. (biospace.com)
Before and after weight gain, the researchers carefully evaluated each study subject's body composition, insulin sensitivity and ability to regulate blood sugar, liver fat and other measures of metabolic health. (biospace.com)
After gaining weight, the metabolic profiles of obese subjects remained normal if they were in the normal range when the study began. (biospace.com)
But the metabolic profiles significantly worsened after weight gain in obese subjects whose metabolic profiles already were abnormal when the study got underway. (biospace.com)
As part of the study, the researchers then helped the subjects lose the weight they had gained. (biospace.com)
In a recent study published in eClinicalMedicine, researchers examined the structural brain changes in patients with post-COVID fatigue. (news-medical.net)
In a recent study published in the journal eClinical Medicine, researchers in the United States reported findings of qualitative research that they pursued to understand the perceived impact of weight stigma and weight-neutral care among women receiving treatment for binge eating disorder (BED) with type 2 diabetes. (news-medical.net)
Women in low-income households are more than twice as likely to become obese because healthy diets are tougher to come by among financially struggling people, a study showed. (schema-root.org)
A new study declares a quarter of Irish women as medically obese and considerably less healthy than other Europe. (irishcentral.com)
The new study found that a quarter of all Irish women are obese, which equates to the third highest level in the EU. (irishcentral.com)
Developments in MRI like diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a technique that tracks the diffusion of water along the brain's signal-carrying white matter tracts, have enabled researchers to study this damage directly. (eurekalert.org)
Thirty-six percentwere considered class 1 obese, 12 percent were class 2 and about 5 percent were class 3, the study said. (telemundo.com)
A study by researchers at the University of Nebraska last year reported that eating whole grains (barley, brown rice, or especially a mix of the two) even for a short period altered the gut microbiota in ways that coincided with improvements in systemic inflammation ( Gut Microbes , Vol. 4, pp. 340-346). (nutraingredients-usa.com)
For the new study, the Iranian researchers recruited 44 overweight or obese girls aged between 8 and 15, and randomly assigned them to either whole-grain or control groups. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
The comments come after a new study found that even if people have healthy blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels, being overweight or obese still carries a higher risk of coronary heart disease, experts found. (chronicle.gi)
Researchers, led by experts at Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, examined data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study of half a million people. (chronicle.gi)
When compared to those who are of a healthy weight, being classed as healthy but overweight carries a 26% increased risk of coronary heart disease and being obese carries a 28% increased risk, according to the new study published in European Heart Journal. (chronicle.gi)
A study conducted by Adrian Carter (PhD) of the University of Queensland found that many people believe that obese individuals should be controlling their urges, rather than the FDA regulating food. (recipeland.com)
A newly funded National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of more than $1.5 million will support Utah State University researchers' study of the less-understood role of father's nutrition in infant health. (usu.edu)
She cites a similar study using obese male rats and healthy female rats. (usu.edu)
A new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have suggested that obese individuals may overeat because they experience less satisfaction from eating food due to a reduced response in their brains' reward circuitry. (medindia.net)
For the study, the researchers investigated a frustrating problem that is common among many adults: gaining pounds after successful weight loss despite sticking to a healthy diet. (naturalnews.com)
In an earlier study, Grandjean and his fellow researchers analyzed weight loss and weight gain in volunteers from Massachusetts and Louisiana. (naturalnews.com)
The study sample was fairly homogenous and included obese adults in Europe. (naturalnews.com)
The study, published in Diabetes Care, shows that quality sleep-not too little, not too much-can give obese teens the edge on avoiding type 2 diabetes. (latexmattress.org)
There are now more obese people on the planet than there are underweight people, according to a new study. (voanews.com)
The study, reported in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, adds to evidence that obese women can try to limit their weight gain during pregnancy without harming themselves or their baby. (health.am)
For the new study, researchers combined the results of four of those trials - all looking specifically at diet counseling. (health.am)
For obese pregnant women, elective induction of labor at 39 to 41 weeks of gestation may be a better choice than expectant management, the results of a study suggest. (medscape.com)
However, this possibility has not yet been adequately evaluated in obese pregnant women, so the authors conducted a retrospective cohort study to compare the risks and benefits of induced labor with those associated with expectant management in this patient population. (medscape.com)
A new study by scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in collaboration with researchers from Imperial College London (United Kingdom) and the University of São Paulo (Brazil), found that higher consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) was associated with significantly higher 5-year body weight gain in a dose-response manner, and with a higher risk of becoming overweight or obese. (who.int)

We found that the number of extremely obese kids seems to be increasing," said lead researcher Asheley Cockrell Skinner, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina. (mentalhelp.net)

Children who are the most obese, she said, are twice as likely to have some of the risk factors for heart disease and diabetes as the mildly obese. (telemundo.com)
The fact that the doubling of risk came from a comparison to mildly obese children, not normal-weight kids, is especially concerning, she said. (telemundo.com)
Looking at boys separately, those who were most obese were more than twice as likely to have low HDL cholesterol compared to those who were mildly obese. (telemundo.com)

This observation is important clinically because about 25 percent of obese people do not have metabolic complications," he added. (biospace.com)
One in three children are either overweight or clinically obese, putting them at a greater risk for diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. (nbcnews.com)
Getting obese patients to lose weight is tricky to begin with, but doctors may have a bigger battle than they thought: many clinically obese men and women think they're already at a healthy weight. (time.com)

Obese people often suffer from insulin resistance, a state in which the body is resistant to the effects of the hormone. (eurekalert.org)
In contrast, obese individuals with a high waist circumference show excessive fat deposition in the abdomen and a pro-inflammatory state that leads to insulin resistance, which can be a precursor to Type 2 diabetes. (theconversation.com)
One trial in particular is studying how contraceptive pills and Metformin (which helps relieve insulin resistance for diabetes and PCOS) can help prevent metabolic syndrome in overweight or obese PCOS patients. (medlineplus.gov)

In obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who require insulin therapy, at least one of the following is suggested: metformin, pramlintide, or GLP-1 agonists to mitigate associated weight gain due to insulin. (medscape.com)
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), and calcium channel blockers, rather than beta-adrenergic blockers, should be considered as first-line therapy for hypertension in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are obese. (medscape.com)
In addition to related health issues obese people have to deal with, such as diabetes, they also have to deal with how society views them. (nocamels.com)
Is your teen obese or otherwise at risk for type 2 diabetes? (latexmattress.org)
Omega-3 fatty acids have an anti-inflammatory effect, so that's one of the reasons why we suspected it may be particularly effective in obese women," says Andrea Manni, professor and division chief of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at Penn State College of Medicine. (labroots.com)
Obese women are at increased risk of a number of pregnancy complications, including pregnancy-related diabetes, high blood pressure and having a larger-than-normal newborn - which can often necessitate a cesarean section . (health.am)
They included all obese women with singleton deliveries in cephalic presentation at 39 weeks of gestation or more, unless they had certain preexisting medical complications such as diabetes or hypertension , a prior cesarean delivery, or a neonate with a major congenital anomaly that would have affected clinical management. (medscape.com)
Researchers predicted that one-third of all people born in 2000 would develop type 2 diabetes during their lifetime (4). (cdc.gov)
This trial should help determine the best approaches to management of metabolic syndrome in overweight or obese women with PCOS, thereby reducing their risk for developing diabetes or cardiovascular diseases," Dr. DePaolo said. (medlineplus.gov)
Diabetes researcher Rashmi Prasad at Lund University has been awarded this year's Medeon Scholarship for her research on the inheritance of type 2 diabetes and why the disease is inherited from the mother to a greater extent. (lu.se)
Her mentor Leif Groop, an internationally recognised diabetes researcher who was active at Lund University for over 20 years, pointed her in this direction. (lu.se)

The researchers identified some key measurements that distinguished metabolically normal obese subjects from those with problems. (biospace.com)
The baffling case of metabolically healthy obese people: Are they protected from chronic diseases? (theconversation.com)
Some studies have demonstrated that a significant number of obese people are metabolically healthy, leading to the contention that one could be healthy at any size. (theconversation.com)

The researchers were surprised to find that overweight kids were recording higher levels of physical activity as compared to their normal weight counterparts. (medindia.net)

The researchers analyzed 3,000 scientific papers on bariatric surgery, which includes gastric bands and bypasses. (fexania.com)
And although about 196,000 Americans had the surgery in 2015, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, that's only a tiny fraction of the roughly 100 million adults who are now considered obese. (latimes.com)

Obese men and women are reasonably accurate when it comes to reporting their own weight, says researchers, but they are much more likely than normal weight persons to misjudge what weight falls into the obese category and therefore do not consider themselves to be obese. (news-medical.net)
Can yoga-dance and mindful eating be beneficial for obese and overweight women? (news-medical.net)
Researchers evaluate the effects of yoga-dance and mindful eating in reducing body weight among obese women. (news-medical.net)
Researchers attribute the Irish statistics to the high of alcohol and cigarette consumption among women there. (irishcentral.com)
That means that there were 266 million obese men and 375 million obese women in the world in 2014, with all humans becoming 1.5 kilograms heavier each decade since 1975. (voanews.com)
Omega-3 fatty acids fight inflammation, which may explain why they seems to lower the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women who are obese. (labroots.com)
Data from normal-weight women may have obscured the results, researchers say. (labroots.com)
To tease apart the effects, researchers looked at the influence of prescription omega-3 supplementation on breast density in different weight women. (labroots.com)
The finding supports the idea that omega-3s, and specifically DHA, are preferentially protective in obese postmenopausal women," Manni says. (labroots.com)
These findings may help to support future research looking at the direct effect of omega-3 supplementation on breast cancer incidence in obese women. (labroots.com)
Obese pregnant women can safely limit their weight gain by watching what they eat, an analysis of several clinical trials suggests. (health.am)
General recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an advisory panel to the U.S. government, say that obese women should gain 11 to 20 pounds during pregnancy. (health.am)
They say at least some obese women can gain less weight - or even shed pounds - during pregnancy, to benefit their own health and to cut the risk of certain pregnancy complications. (health.am)
The reality is that many obese women gain more than the IOM recommends. (health.am)
So, small clinical trials have begun looking into ways to help obese women limit those pregnancy pounds. (health.am)
They found that, on average, obese pregnant women who got diet help gained 14 pounds less than those who received no special advice. (health.am)
In addition, the lesser weight gain brought the women in line with IOM recommendations, say the researchers, led by Julie A. Quinlivan of Ramsay Health Care in Joondalup, Australia. (health.am)
Dr. Raul Artal, head of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, is one of the critics of the IOM guidelines for obese women. (health.am)
In his own research, Artal has found that obese women can safely maintain their weight, or even lose up to 10 pounds, without harming their newborn's birth weight - which has been the main concern with limiting pregnancy pounds. (health.am)
Artal's research has suggested that when obese women maintain or lose a bit of weight during pregnancy, it not only does not seem to impair fetal growth, but may also curb the risk of having a larger-than-normal newborn. (health.am)
That does not mean, however, that obese pregnant women should hop onto to the latest fad diet. (health.am)
Similarly, obese women who want to limit pregnancy pounds should do it under medical supervision, Artal said. (health.am)
Obese women," he added, "should not be excluded from recommendations to adopt a healthy lifestyle. (health.am)
Methods: Women aged 18 to 48 were eligible if they had one of the following health risks: 1) GDM or HDP during pregnancy, 2) prediabetes diagnosis, or 3) BMI classified as obese. (bvsalud.org)
In contrast," the authors write, "at 39 and 40 weeks of gestation, the risk of operative vaginal delivery was moderately increased among electively induced, as compared with expectantly managed, obese women (eg, among nulliparous women at 39 weeks of gestation, 8.9% [95% CI 7.9-10.1%] vs 7.1% [95% CI 6.8-7.4%], respectively. (medscape.com)

Researchers have created engineered proteins that lowered body weight, bloodstream insulin, and cholesterol levels in obese mice, rats, and primates. (latimes.com)
Scientists from the biotechnology company Amgen Inc. report they have identified and improved upon a naturally occurring protein that brought about significant changes in obese mice and monkeys, including weight loss and rapid improvements on measures of metabolic and heart health. (latimes.com)
In mice who got a bioengineered version of the GDF15 protein, the researchers observed even more remarkable changes. (latimes.com)
These obese mice turned their noses up at extra-rich condensed milk - a treat that normally prompts mice to gorge themselves. (latimes.com)
An off-label experiment in mice using disulfiram, which has been used to treat alcohol use disorder for more than 50 years, consistently normalized body weight and reversed metabolic damage in obese middle-aged mice of both sexes. (nih.gov)
Mice on the high disulfiram dose lost as much as 40% of their body weight in just four weeks, effectively normalizing their weight to that of obese mice who were switched back to standard diet. (nih.gov)
Both groups of obese mice (control and disulfiram) were not subjected to any form of exercise, nor did they demonstrate noticeable spontaneous behavioral changes. (nih.gov)
They also became much more obese than normal mice, particularly when fed a high-fat diet. (cam.ac.uk)
Researchers used a modified CRISPR gene editing technique to target the fat cells of obese, diabetic mice. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Next, the team used mice that were obese and diabetic, injecting them with their peptide-targeting CRISPRi twice a week for up to 6 weeks. (medicalnewstoday.com)

Not only are these findings relevant to physicians who need to pay special heed to issues such as potential surgical site infections in heavier patients but, the authors argue, they are relevant to policymakers whose increasingly applied metrics for surgical quality and reimbursement do not account for the higher risk of worse outcomes in the obese. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Research Project Grant (R01) applications from institutions/organizations th at propose to conduct research to determine the barriers to optimal health care for obese patients, and to test innovations or modifications in care delivery to improve health outcomes for obese patients independent of weight loss. (nih.gov)

In Israel, about 13% are either overweight or obese. (ou.org)

Moreover, all obese children are likely to be obese adults, Skinner said. (mentalhelp.net)
For the new report, published online April 7 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics , Skinner and a colleague used the same National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data as the CDC researchers, but extended their research from 1999 to 2012. (mentalhelp.net)
For reference, a 10-year-old boy who is 4 feet 6 inches tall would be considered class 1 obese if he weighed 95 pounds, class 2 at 115 pounds and class 3 at 130 pounds, Skinner said. (telemundo.com)

Researchers looked at such risk factors as cholesterol levels, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. (telemundo.com)

WESTCHESTER, Ill. - There is a high probability of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in non-obese, middle-aged patients, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Tuesday, June 9, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. (aasm.org)
Results confirmed that OSA in non-obese patients is most prevalent in middle-aged men with larger neck sizes. (aasm.org)
Fifty-four percent (2,906) of 5,426 non-obese patients were OSA positive, and most of them were middle age (57 percent). (aasm.org)
According to lead author Teimur Yeligulashvili, PhD, clinical supervisor at SleepTech in Wayne, N.J., the researchers were surprised by the fact that no significant differences were found in Epworth Sleepiness Scale results and neck size between OSA positive and OSA negative in non-obese patients. (aasm.org)
More than 50 percent of non-obese OSA patients had mild OSA, suggesting that in-lab polysmonography may be more accurate in assessing people in this demographic, as opposed to portable monitoring systems," said Yeligulashvili. (aasm.org)
Patients with body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 27 were considered as non-obese and patients with apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of greater than five were defined as OSA positive. (aasm.org)
Obese patients are nearly 12 times more likely to suffer a complication following elective plastic surgery than their normal-weight counterparts, according to new research by Johns Hopkins scientists. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
With the government and other insurers penalizing doctors whose patients get infections or are readmitted to the hospital - and with obese patients more likely to have those problems - policymakers need to make sure they aren't giving physicians financial incentives to discriminate on the basis of weight," Makary says. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
But, Makary says, they do not take into account that obese patients may suffer more complications, as this new research finds. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Operations on obese patients are more taxing, says Makary, a surgeon himself. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
There were 2,403 patients in the obese group and 5,597 patients in the normal weight control group. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Within 30 days of surgery, 18.3 percent of the obese group experienced at least once complication, compared to 2.2 percent of patients in the control group. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
The differences between the two groups were most pronounced in complications, such as inflammation (with obese patients 22 times more likely to suffer a complication), infection (13 times) and pain (11 times). (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Makary says he fears some surgeons avoid taking obese patients because "it's more work, and it's a more complex surgery as opposed to operating on a thin patient. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
They're getting reimbursed less per unit of work for obese patients. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Why do obese patients not lose more weight when treated with low-calorie diets? (bodyrecomposition.com)
Some of the weight-loss medications approved in recent years by the Food and Drug Administration - including Belviq, Contrave, Qsymia and Saxenda - appear to nudge the food preferences of obese patients in more healthful directions. (latimes.com)
image: Reduction in fractional anisotropy (FA) in obese patients compared to the control group: At the intersection of the alignment vectors, a large cluster of FA decrease located in the corpus callosum on the left. (eurekalert.org)
In red: Reduction of FA in obese patients compared to controls, and FA skeleton (green), superimposed on the mean of FA images in sample. (eurekalert.org)
None of the brain regions in obese patients had increased FA. (eurekalert.org)
Clinicians should take into account patients' BMI and RA-FQ scores when devising treatment strategies for RA flares, suggest researchers. (medindia.net)
Researchers at the Poznan University of Medical Science, Poland, and the University of San Diego, found that the higher the woman's levels of testosterone and androgens-which is common in PCOS patients-the less diverse their gut microbiomes tended to be. (medlineplus.gov)

CDC researchers analyzed data from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. (cdc.gov)
However, the population at risk for BE is defined by different combinations of risk factors in the societal guidance statements, which impacts the potential burden of screening, the researchers point out. (medscape.com)
In other risk factors, 40% had a history of smoking (18% current smoker), and 27% were obese. (medscape.com)
Comparing the guidance in another way, the researchers calculated the resource burden by the number of risk factors in each statement. (medscape.com)
While obese people are at a higher risk of developing a more serious infection, there is no increased risk of death. (hindustantimes.com)
People of "normal" weight who sport a wide waist are more at risk of heart problems than obese people, researchers have said, urging a rethink of healthy weight guidelines. (schema-root.org)
After adjusting for a number of factors, the researchers found that compared to the healthy normal weight group, those classed as unhealthy had more than double the risk of coronary heart disease whether they were normal weight, overweight or obese. (chronicle.gi)
In fact, two-thirds of people with body size misperception thought they were at low risk of becoming obese. (time.com)
Spouses share meals and a backyard, but the researchers found a much smaller risk of gaining weight - a 37% increase - when one spouse became obese. (time.com)
The researchers estimated associations between consumption of UPFs and body weight change and the relative risk of becoming overweight or obese after 5 years. (who.int)

Analysis by Cancer Research UK shows 71 per cent of people could be overweight or obese by 2040. (fexania.com)
Typically, researchers use DEXA scans to measure body fat percentage in research settings. (medicalnewstoday.com)
More research is needed into why obese adults do not consider themselves to be obese, with two possibilities being perception and denial. (news-medical.net)
New academic research across rural New Zealand has found Māori and low income people are likely to be more obese because they do not have access to exercise facilities such as gyms, ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. (scoop.co.nz)
A 10-year-old boy who is 4 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 95 pounds is considered obese, according to Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. (mentalhelp.net)
This research demonstrates that some obese people are protected from the adverse metabolic effects of moderate weight gain, whereas others are predisposed to develop these problems," said senior investigator Samuel Klein, MD, the Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science and director of Washington University's Center for Human Nutrition. (biospace.com)
Carter feels that more research is needed to clearly demonstrate why obese individuals experience addictions, and how this happens. (recipeland.com)
We assumed that the greatest difficulties obese people faced on planes were caused by tight, confined spaces," BGU's Prof. Yaniv Poria , who led the research, said in a statement. (nocamels.com)
The research reveals obese people may have fewer dopamine receptors, so they overeat to compensate for this reward deficit. (medindia.net)

"The mechanisms through which whole-grain intake might affect systemic inflammation remain to be understood," wrote the researchers. (nutraingredients-usa.com)

The number of overweight/obese employees with healthy waist circumferences increased from 3 to 8 post-intervention. (cdc.gov)
Embargoed to 0005 Tuesday August 15 File photo dated 08/06/07 of the waist of an obese woman, as the concept of being "fit but fat" is a myth, researchers have said. (chronicle.gi)

Researchers also found untreated children who were overweight had more asthma attacks than untreated peers of a healthy weight. (newsblaze.com)
For the years 2011-12, they found 32 percent of America's children were overweight and 17 percent were obese. (mentalhelp.net)
The disparity was even greater between the ages of 10 and 11 when obese children had a mean of 2.7 more teeth and a median of six permanent teeth. (drbicuspid.com)
Additionally, obese children had "significantly greater mean NET (determined by finding the sum of all erupted teeth for each subject, excluding third molars) than non-obese subjects" in every category from ages 7 and up. (drbicuspid.com)
We know that the increased presence of adipose tissue that occurs in obese children is a growth-promoting process," lead author Aviva Must, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, told DrBicuspid.com . (drbicuspid.com)
Data from the World Health Organization indicates that the number of overweight or obese infants and young children ages five years or younger increased from 32 million globally in 1990 to 41 million in 2016. (eurekalert.org)
Obese children had 27 percent more muscle mass in the left ventricle of their hearts and 12 percent thicker heart muscles - both signs of heart disease - compared to normal weight children," Geisinger said in a statement. (nbcnews.com)
This evidence of cardiac remodeling was present in obese children as young as age 8," Jing and colleagues wrote in a summary of their findings, presented to a meeting of the American Heart Association. (nbcnews.com)
This implies that obese children even younger than 8 years old likely have signs of heart disease too," Jing said. (nbcnews.com)
They looked at statistics from more than 8,500 children, ages 3 to 19, who were overweight or obese. (telemundo.com)
The problem is especially alarming in Hispanic communities, where as many as 45 percent of children are overweight or obese. (utsa.edu)
If one of more of your children is overweight or obese, you're in good company. (ou.org)
There are also psychological effects: Obese children are more prone to low self-esteem, negative body image and depression. (ou.org)
The behavioural and biological responses of a child to the obesogenic environment can be shaped by processes even before birth, placing an even greater number of children on the pathway to becoming obese when faced with an unhealthy diet and low physical activity. (who.int)

Using national survey data and current guidance from four major gastroenterology societies, researchers found the US adult population eligible for BE screening ranges from nearly 20 million to roughly 120 million. (medscape.com)

Of these, almost 36 percent adults (21 million) are probably obese (blue dotted line). (fexania.com)
Thirty-four percent of adults in the United States are now estimated to be obese (those with a body mass index above 30), up from just 15 percent a decade ago. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
Seventy-one percent of normal weight and seventy-three percent of overweight adults classified themselves correctly, compared to only 15 percent of obese adults who correctly considered themselves to be obese. (news-medical.net)
Thirty-six percent of the residents in the community are obese, and there are few safe public areas where people can exercise. (schema-root.org)
The researchers tracked the post-diet results of 381 European volunteers who had lost a minimum of eight percent of their original weight after dieting for two months. (naturalnews.com)

Typically, body mass index (BMI) readings are used to determine whether an individual is overweight or obese. (naturalnews.com)
Researchers determined the association between compensatory and regular restraints and body mass index. (news-medical.net)
To be classified as obese, subjects had to have a body mass index z-score greater than or equal to the 95th percentile. (drbicuspid.com)
16 of the 24 passengers self-identified as obese, with a body mass index of 30 or above. (nocamels.com)
22% of adults were obese (defined as body mass index 30 kg/m2) (7). (cdc.gov)

They used the same data that researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mined for their encouraging report in February. (mentalhelp.net)
While having food, the body releases dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the reward centers of the brain, but Eric Stice, psychology researcher at the university, found that obese people show less activation in the striatum relative to lean people. (medindia.net)

To estimate the different potential burdens of BE screening, the researchers turned to 2012 data from the US National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the most recent year of the annual household survey that included answers to a question about GERD symptoms. (medscape.com)
If obese adults do not consider themselves to be obese, they are not likely to pay full attention to public health messages about the consequences of being obese. (news-medical.net)
The researchers says this was important as health disparities and disease burden is considerable higher among Māori New Zealanders than pākehā. (scoop.co.nz)
Researchers are unlocking the mysteries of how low testosterone is related to men's overall health. (webmd.com)
Linyuan Jing of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania, and colleagues compared 20 obese kids to 20 normal-weight kids, conducting a heart imaging scan called cardiac magnetic resonance. (nbcnews.com)
Dr Ioanna Tzoulaki, from Imperial's School of Public Health, added: "I think there is no longer this concept of healthy obese. (chronicle.gi)
The NIA scientists, Michel Bernier, Ph.D., and Rafael de Cabo, Ph.D., collaborate frequently with researchers at NIH and beyond on studies into how changes in dietary patterns like intermittent fasting could lead to cognitive and physical health benefits. (nih.gov)
Families received lessons from the researchers about nutrition, health and meal preparation, and members joined church-based physical activity sessions. (utsa.edu)
Researchers, with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), are studying families in the Nordic country to better understand PCOS and how genetics play a role in its development. (medlineplus.gov)

Also, obese people are more likely to suffer from shortness of breath, which may lead to an increased need for ventilation. (hindustantimes.com)

Researchers say obese Americans contribute disproportionately to global warming by consuming 18% more food and 938 million extra gallons of gas every year. (motherjones.com)
It's estimated more than 20 million obese Americans engage in harmful binge eating. (kpbs.org)

Additionally, when the researchers treated brown fat cells with BMP8B they responded more strongly to activation by the nervous system. (cam.ac.uk)

Using the measured BMI, there were 31 normal weight, 40 overweight, and 33 obese adults in the group. (news-medical.net)

Some of this stigma arises from the perception that obese individuals are unhealthy. (theconversation.com)

Researchers review existing data on avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) and atypical-type anorexia nervosa (AN). (news-medical.net)
Editor's note: The data in these releases may differ from those in the published abstract and those actually presented at the meeting, as researchers continue to update their data right up until the meeting. (eurekalert.org)
The researchers used data from the 2007 to 2011 California Linked Patient Discharge Data-Birth Cohort File, which includes information on more than 95% of childbirths to California residents. (medscape.com)

Naturally, this leads to a vicious cycle, causing obese individuals to lose control over their eating habits. (recipeland.com)

Levels of inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 decreased by 22% and 28%, respectively, over six weeks, compared with increases of 12% and 6%, respectively in the control group, report researchers from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
The volunteers who gained the most weight back had the highest levels of PFAS chemicals in their blood, reported the researchers. (naturalnews.com)
The researchers, based at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found that between 7.5 and 8.5 hours of sleep a night correlated to stable glucose levels. (latexmattress.org)

The researchers plan to test the effect of DHA alone in obese subjects, potentially in combination with weight loss, in a future trial. (labroots.com)

The researchers published their findings online December 4 in Obstetrics & Gynecology . (medscape.com)

After a week we found there were some kids who were extremely active but still obese. (medindia.net)
Obese kids as young as 8 already have dangerous damage to their hearts, researchers reported on Tuesday. (nbcnews.com)

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