TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| Regular Exercise Can Help Prevent Chronic Illness, Reduce Health Care Costs, HHS Secretary Leavitt Writes "Chronic diseases afflict 100 million Americans, cause seven out of 10 deaths and consume $2 out of every $3 spent on health care," but "much of the burden ... can be prevented with simple lifestyle choices" because a "major contributing factor is physical inactivity," HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt writes in a Lexington Herald-Leader opinion piece. medicalnewstoday.com |
Multi-Center Clinical Trial Funded By NIDDK To Enroll Adults With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Joslin Diabetes Center scientists are taking groundbreaking research on the role of inflammation in type 2 diabetes to a new level with the launch of a national clinical trial to investigate whether salsalate, an anti-inflammatory drug used for years to manage arthritis pain, can reduce blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes. medicalnewstoday.com |
Serum PSA Hemodilution Among Obese Men Undergoing Screening In The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, And Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial UroToday.com - This study reported in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention used the same Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) database as that by Andriole and colleagues in the NEJM article recently covered in Urotoday1. It is previously proposed that PSA levels in obese men could be due to hemodilution secondary to increased circulating blood volume. This study evaluated that phenomenon among 38,349 men randomized to the screened group of PLCO. medicalnewstoday.com |
Study Finds Obesity Responsible For Significant Portion Of Health Spending A new report finds nearly 10 percent of health care costs are due to obesity and per capita medical spending is significantly higher for obese people. The Wall Street Journal/AP report: "New research shows medical spending averages $1,400 more a year for an obese person than for someone who's normal weight. medicalnewstoday.com |
The Leading Risk Factor Of Left Atrial Enlargement During Aging Is Obesity Aside from aging itself, obesity appears to be the most powerful predictor of left atrial enlargement (LAE), upping one's risk of atrial fibrillation (the most common type of arrhythmia), stroke and death, according to findings published in the November 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. medicalnewstoday.com |