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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...

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ADA 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...

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The 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...

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Obesity 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...

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Cancer 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...

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More 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...

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Keeping 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...

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Study 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...

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Diabetes 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...

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Inflammation 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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