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| DMAA Launches Online Obesity Resource Center For Professionals, Consumers - Groundbreaking Approach To Obesity Benefit Design Centerpiece Of Site DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance today launched a Web site of information and tools for health plans, employers, physicians, consumers and others in the fight against obesity and its associated conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. The DMAA Obesity Resource Center, at orc.dmaa. medicalnewstoday.com |
Discovery Of 3 Genes That Increase Risk Of Severe Obesity In Kids And Adults European and Canadian researchers have, for the first time, drawn a map of genetic risk factors that can lead to two forms of severe obesity: early-onset obesity in children, and morbid obesity in adults. A genetic study of 1,380 Europeans with early-onset and morbid adult obesity was led by French researchers Dr. David Meyre, of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm), and Dr. medicalnewstoday.com |
Study Explains Association Between Depression And Cardiovascular Disease Numerous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but exactly how has never been clear. Now, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have shown that depression is linked with the accumulation of visceral fat, the kind of fat packed between internal organs at the waistline, which has long been known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. medicalnewstoday.com |
Rates Of Severe Childhood Obesity Have Tripled Rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years, putting many children at risk for diabetes and heart disease, according to a report in Academic Pediatrics by an obesity expert at Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. "Children are not only becoming obese, but becoming severely obese, which impacts their overall health," said Joseph Skelton, M.D. medicalnewstoday.com |
Teenage Obesity Linked To MS New research has investigated the possibility that teenage obesity may be linked with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in women. The results of the study, published in the scientific journal Neurology, examined information gathered information from women who claimed they were obese between the ages of 18 and 20 and linked a two-fold increase in the risk of developing MS. medicalnewstoday.com |