Category: Obesity
Is there another benefit besides weight loss of GLP-1s in people with severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can GLP-1 agonists help in heart failure and severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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There’s a relationship between severe obesity and one type of heart failure, and it looks like it’s mediated by adding more phosphate groups, a process known as phosphorylation, to proteins in heart muscle cells, specifically to units within the muscle …
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What is severe obesity doing to the heart muscle’s ability to contract? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Severe obesity may impede the ability of units inside heart muscle cells called sarcomeres to contract, and losing weight may reverse that condition. That’s according to research by cardiologist David Kass and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, who looked closely at …
How is obesity related to a common form of heart failure? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, so-called HFpEF, is happening more frequently, especially in those with severe obesity. David Kass, a cardiologist and researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, have looked closely at heart muscle cells from this group of …
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Text messages meeting people where they are allow children to avoid becoming obese, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Childhood obesity is a worldwide problem with long term health implications, especially cardiovascular disease. Now a study co-led by Johns Hopkins pediatrics expert Eliana Perrin has shown a personalized program of text messages to parents of very young infants staved …
Childhood obesity rates keep rising, but a text based intervention can help.
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While childhood obesity is a widespread problem, the children who are most at risk to develop this disabling condition are already those with fewer educational opportunities and lower income. Now an intervention using text messages helps to close this gap …
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