Metabolic Syndrome Predicts NAFLD
Gastroenterology Summary and Comment
Prospective data suggest that the metabolic syndrome significantly increases NAFLD risk, particularly among women.
By Atif Zaman, MD, MPH
February 14, 2006
Covering:
Hamaguchi M et al., Ann Intern Med 2005 Nov 15; 143:722-8
Higher BMI Is a Risk Factor for Renal Failure
General Medicine Summary and Comment
We have yet another reason to address obesity: to prevent end-stage renal disease.
By Richard Saitz MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
January 27, 2006
Covering:
Hsu C-Y et al., Ann Intern Med 2006 Jan 3; 144:21-8
Adolescent Obesity: Some Bad News, and Maybe Some Good News
Results from two recent studies provide further evidence that adolescent obesity increases risk for adult cardiovascular disease.
By Alain Joffe, MD, MPH
January 27, 2006
Covering:
Stabouli S et al., J Pediatr 2005 Nov; 147:651-6
Balagopal P et al., J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005 Nov; 90:6192-7
Which Dieters Will Develop Eating Disorders?
Women's Health Summary and Comment
Clinicians caring for middle-class women in the U.S. probably encounter nearly universal dieting among their patients. Given the rising rate of obesity and its consequences, . . .
By Nada L. Stotland, MD, MPH
January 24, 2006
Covering:
Fairburn CG et al., Am J Psychiatry 2005 Dec; 162:2249-55
Obesity and Physical Inactivity: Worse Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer
Gastroenterology Summary and Comment
Disease-specific survival rates were better in patients who exercised regularly before their diagnoses — and worse in those who had high percentages of body fat or large waist circumferences.
By Douglas K. Rex, MD
January 17, 2006
Covering:
Haydon AMM et al., Gut 2006 Jan; 55:62-7
Dietary Antioxidants and Macular Degeneration — Eat Your Broccoli!
General Medicine Summary and Comment
High intake of zinc, ß-carotene, and vitamins C and E was associated with significantly reduced risk for macular degeneration.
By Thomas L. Schwenk, MD
January 13, 2006
Covering:
van Leeuwen R et al., JAMA 2005 Dec 28; 294:3101-7
Which Dieters Will Develop Eating Disorders?
Psychiatry Summary and Comment
Although dieting behavior is extremely common and virtually normative in young women from developed countries, few researchers have searched for predictors of future eating disorders . . .
By Joel Yager, MD
January 12, 2006
Covering:
Fairburn CG et al., Am J Psychiatry 2005 Dec; 162:2249-55
Bioinformatics Identifies a New Antiobesity Hormone
Psychiatry Summary and Comment
Ghrelin, a peptide hormone that induces appetite, is derived from a larger protein (a prohormone) via posttranslational processing. These investigators hypothesized that another hormone might . . .
By Jonathan Silver, MD
January 12, 2006
Covering:
Zhang JV et al., Science 2005 Nov 11; 310:996-9
What’s the Best Measure of Obesity?
Cardiology Summary and Comment
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Waist-to-hip ratio beat body-mass index as a predictor of myocardial infarction.
By Joel M. Gore, MD
January 5, 2006
Covering:
Yusuf S et al. on behalf of the INTERHEART Study Investigators., Lancet 2005 Nov 5; 366:1640-9
Kragelund C and Omland T., Lancet 2005 Nov 5; 366:1589-91
Obesity Management: Two Trials
Cardiology Summary and Comment
What is the role of drug therapy in managing obesity?
By JoAnne M. Foody, MD
January 5, 2006
Covering:
Després J-P et al., N Engl J Med 2005 Nov 17; 353:2121-34
Wadden TA et al., N Engl J Med 2005 Nov 17; 353:2111-20
Yanovski SZ., N Engl J Med 2005 Nov 17; 353:2187-9
