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Anchor lead: Where fat accumulates on your body has important implications, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who accumulate fat around their waists, called central obesity, are known to be at higher risk for heart disease than those who store the stuff …
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This week’s topics include belly fat dangers, continuous versus intermittent CPR, silicone breast implants, and intensive versus standard blood pressure control. Program notes: 0:37 Tight blood pressure control 1:38 Standard versus tight control 2:38 More intensive therapy required three medicines …
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Anchor lead: Is there a relationship between overweight and certain brain tumors? Elizabeth Tracey reports Over a third of all brain tumors actually develop from the tissue covering of the brain and are called meningiomas. Now a new study implicates …
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This week’s topics include calcium supplements, chemotherapy during pregnancy, cardiometabolic impact of obesity in children, and a low nicotine cigarette. Program notes: 0:31 Low nicotine cigarette 1:32 Attempted to prove that nicotine addicts 2:30 FDA should regulate nicotine level 3:26 …
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Anchor lead: People who are considering obesity surgery might want a nutritional assessment beforehand, Elizabeth Tracey reports One in five very obese patients who were about to have obesity or bariatric surgery at Johns Hopkins were found to have nutritional …
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Anchor lead: What’s the nutritional status of people who are obese? Elizabeth Tracey reports In spite of consuming large amounts of food, a surprising number of people who are very overweight, so-called morbidly obese, are nutritionally compromised. That’s according to …
