TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| UNC And N.C. Roles Expanded In Landmark Children's Health And Development Study The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has added three more areas of North Carolina and is expanding the role played by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a long-term, wide-ranging study of the nation's children. medicalnewstoday.com |
Phone And Internet Counselling For The Overweight Counselling via the phone and internet can help weight management in overweight individuals, according to a Dutch study published in the open access journal, BMC Public Health. The project compared counselling via phone and e-mail with the standard practice of issuing self-help literature in approximately 1400 workers as an aid to weight management. medicalnewstoday.com |
Study Examines Outcomes Of Gastric Bypass Surgery In Morbidly Obese And Superobese Patients Superobese gastric bypass patients appear to have improvements in quality of life and obesity-related co-existing conditions, and despite losing weight remain obese after surgery, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased markedly world-wide in past years. medicalnewstoday.com |
Prehypertension, Obesity And Kidney Disease Risks People with prehypertension are not at increased risk of kidney disease if their body mass index (BMI) is under 30.0 kg/m2, a first-ever examination of the combined effect of blood pressure and body weight on the risk of kidney disease shows. The study, by a team of medical researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is available as a pre-publication article online from the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. medicalnewstoday.com |
Antipsychotic Drugs Linked To Significant Weight Gain In Children And Teenagers US researchers found that many children and teenagers treated with second generation antipsychotic drugs put on a significant amount of weight and also experienced a worsening of cholesterol and triglyceride levels and other metabolic measures. The study was the work of Dr Christoph U. medicalnewstoday.com |