Problems With Defining Diabetes
Folks familiar with obesity conversations know that the Body Mass Index (BMI) has many problems as a reliable indicator of excess adipose tissue (which is the definition of obesity). However, many may...
View ArticleADA Urges Lower BMI Cutoff for Asian-Americans
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is lowering the Body Mass Index (BMI) cutpoint for screening Asian-Americans for type 2 diabetes to a BMI of >23kg/m2. In the new article, the evidence for a...
View ArticleThe Obesity-Alzheimer’s Disease Connection
A recent article by Dr. M. Thambisetty of the National Institute on Aging studied the effect of mid-life obesity on the age of onset of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Using data from the Baltimore...
View ArticleObesity Mortality Estimate Sharply Up
In a new analysis, researchers have determined that mortality due to obesity is much greater than previously estimated, perhaps some 4 times as higher as previous estimates. The new analysis is based...
View ArticleCancer Patients with Obesity Undertreated
The Washington Post carries an article today on physicians under-treating cancer patients with obesity by giving lower doses of chemotherapy than appropriate for their weight. A recent paper in Nature...
View ArticleMore evidence on obesity and mortality. Where did the obesity paradox go?
The January 16, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article by Frank Hu and colleagues looking at mortality among adults with incident type 2 diabetes by Body Mass Index...
View ArticleKeeping Up with Obesity and Liver Disease
New York Times is carrying a page-one-above-the-fold story on liver disease. It stresses the rise of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease related to the rise in obesity as the leading cause of liver...
View ArticleStudy Affirms that Central Obesity has Higher Mortality Risk
A new article reaffirms earlier studies showing that in persons with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI) had the worst long-term survival compared to others with a similar BMI but no central obesity and...
View ArticleDiabetes Rates Soar
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes has increased in all US states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico between 1995 and...
View ArticleInflammation and Metabolic Health
Anis Larbi, Iftikhar Alam and Tze Pin Ng have produced a truly provocative review article, Does Inflammation Determine Whether Obesity is Metabolically Healthy or Unhealthy? The Aging Perspective in...
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