Endocrinology

• In the Journals Perspective Video

• Obese patients at increased risk for mortality

• Endocrine Today, January 2013
• Higher grades of obesity are significantly linked to an increased risk for mortality, according to data reported in The Journal of the American Medical...More »

• CME

• The New Treatment Paradigm in Obesity: Proper Patient Selection, Assessment of Comorbidities, and Stepped Interventions

• More than one-third of adults and 17% of all teens and adolescents in the United States are obese, making obesity one of this country’s greatest public health issues. Obesity is often concomitant…...More »
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• Health Care Updates

• Aerobic exercise reduces fat mass, body mass in individuals who are obese

• December 18, 2012
• Aerobic training appears to be the optimal mode of exercise for reducing fat mass and body mass, according to a recently published study in the Journal of...More »

• In the Journals

• Reducing salt may help reduce obesity

• December 18, 2012
• A good way to reduce childhood obesity would be to limit children’s salt intake, according to study data published online.
  Caryl A. Nowson, PhD, of...More »

• In the Journals

• Bedroom TV viewing increased obesity, cardiometabolic risk in children

• December 12, 2012
• The presence of a TV in the bedroom and TV viewing time were associated with high waist circumference, fat mass and abdominal subcutaneous adiposity in a...More »

• In the Journals

• DPP-based lifestyle interventions reduced BMI more than usual care

• Endocrine Today, January 2013
• Researchers at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute in California evaluated two adapted Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle...More »

• In the Journals

• Mobile technology led to enhanced short-term weight loss

• Endocrine Today, January 2013
• Mobile technology has recently come to the forefront of clinical care and patient education. In a study that challenged the addition of a mobile device as...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• Obesity increases surgery time, cost in patients with lung cancer

• HemOnc Today, January 25, 2013
• In a recent study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, researchers determined that for every 10-unit increase in BMI, operating room time...More »

• In the Journals

• IVAC aids wound healing in obese pediatric patients

• Orthopedics Today, January 2013
• Using incisional wound vacuum-assisted closure in obese patients to reduce infection after major hip or pelvic surgery may reduce these complications in...More »

• In the Journals

• Basic information could predict childhood obesity at birth

• November 29, 2012
• Using data from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort, researchers have discovered that non-genetic data available at the time of birth was enough to...More »

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