A companion piece to the new cholesterol guidelines.
A quick guide to personalizing cholesterol treatment for your patient.
Guidelines are based on current data, experience, and “gained wisdom.”
French study of 6595 patients examines the "obesity paradox."
The risk of childhood overweight/obesity attributable to large birth weight alone was significantly higher than for gestational diabetes.
BMI value also shows linear relationship with pancreatic cancer risk.
Cardiovascular benefits add up even with small doses.
New World Health Organization guidelines provide up-to-date recommendations aimed at supporting risk-factor reductions.
New research dispels the idea that high-protein diets could cause kidney damage.
Both central and general obesity play a role.
People who rarely weigh themselves are less likely to lose weight.
Associations are quite small, body weight increase is slight.
Gastric bypass also carries the highest rate of major adverse events.
Inflammation may play a central role in the pathophysiology of PCOS.
Cohort study of more than 300,000 people.
Abdominal obesity or diabetes may be better markers than unintentional weight loss.
These authors say the evidence supports a causal link.
