Obesity

Obesity Drug Resubmitted for FDA Approval

Publish date: October 18, 2011

Publish date: October 10, 2011

Major Finding: Six years after gastric bypass surgery, the rate of diabetes remission in a cohort of morbidly obese patients was 75%, compared...

Publish date: September 7, 2011

Major Finding: Black women’s risk of death from any cause was increased in all categories of overweight and obesity, so that at a body mass index...

Publish date: August 3, 2011

Major Finding: An estimated 8.3 million American adults are diagnosed with gout, reflecting a 1.2% rise in the prevalence of the disease in the...

Publish date: August 3, 2011

Publish date: July 19, 2011

Major Finding: The risk of death from breast cancer is increased by 69% in obese women, and the risk of death from breast cancer is also increased...

Publish date: July 13, 2011

Major Finding: Bariatric surgery patients had a statistically significant 28% reduced relative rate of death, MI, or stroke, compared with...

Publish date: July 12, 2011

Major Finding: The fracture risk for gastric bypass surgery patients was 2.3-fold greater than that for the general population.Data Source: A...