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...valuating disability, patient safety, managing the obese patient, tobacco's international toll, food safety, headaches, and medicinal herbs. Physicians will also refine techniques in biopsy, casting and splinting, and specialized exams in ACP's Waxman Learning Center set up for the meeting. All ACP Annua...Moderate-fat diet is kinder to heart than low-fat diet, study by UB researcher shows
...ate. The study group consisted of 53 overweight or obese men and women between the ages of 20 and 67 who were assigned randomly to either the low- or moderate-fat diet. All meals were provided, and weight loss was kept constant at an average of 2.4 to 2.7 pounds a week. Both diets met current saturated fa...Dieters decrease heart risk on moderate fat program
...te College of Medicine. Fifty-three overweight or obese men and women participated in the study. All of the participants had total cholesterol levels elevated above 200 at the start of the dieting. The participants ate either a low-fat or moderate-fat diet designed to produce weight loss for six weeks a...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2004 (second issue)
...ith obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Less obese patients improved after 2 days of treatment. The researchers studied insulin sensitivity in 40 OSAS patients who had a mean apnea-hypopnea index of 43 breathing pauses per hour. Insulin sensitivity readings were taken before, 2 days after CPAP trea...United States has highest prevalence of overweight teens in 15 country study
...ems in adulthood, with 50 percent to 80 percent of obese teenagers becoming obese adults. For children and adolescents, a body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms div...Potential genetic links discovered between metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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...merican and Caucasian men, both studies found that obese patients in the study groups were more likely to b...n-American men in the study were more likely to be obese (27% vs. 18% of white men), have higher cancer recurrence rates, and more aggressive disease. Dr. F...Fitness in young adulthood protects heart health in middle age
...tness over the course of the study. Those who were obese tended to be less fit: Of those who were obese, 68 percent had low fitness, while among those who were not obese, 51 percent were highly fit. Interestingly, improving fitness had no significant effect on reducing high blood pressure or low-density l...Young adult fitness protects heart health in middle age
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...ht in meters) and the proportion of overweight and obese people has increased worldwide. Several studies have shown that tracking (patients maintaining their relative positions weight-wise in their age-sex group over time) is fairly common. Elisabeth Kvaavik, M.Sc. of the Institute for Nutrition Research,...Its never too late to start exercising and losing weight , Joslin study shows
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