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Polycystic ovary syndrome more prevalent in overweight women
Overweight and obese Spanish women appear five times as likely as lean women to have polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition that decreases fertility and contributes to other illnesses.   view more (2006-10-24)

Obesity Linked to Increased Risk for Dementia
Obesity may increase adults' risk for having dementia, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Their analysis of published obesity and dementia prospective follow-up studies over the past two decades shows a consistent relationship between the two diseases.   view more (2008-05-08)

Strong link between obesity and depression
Doctors should pay more attention to the link between common mental illness and obesity in patients because the two health problems are closely linked, according to researchers at the University of Adelaide.   view more (2009-10-07)

Health care expenditures significantly higher for children with obesity
Children and adolescents who are obese or overweight have higher health care utilization and a significantly higher average of health care charges than their healthy-weight peers.   view more (2007-01-02)

Is obesity an oral bacterial disease?
The world-wide explosion of overweight people has been called an epidemic. The inflammatory nature of obesity is widely recognized.   view more (2009-07-09)

New XML Edition Of Text Encoding Guidelines Published
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium (www.tei-c.org) announces publication of a new, updated version of their Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, known as P4. The Consortium, now in its second year, is an International non-profit corporation set up to maintain and develop the TEI system, which has become the de facto... view more... (2002-06-13)

2 years old -- a childhood obesity tipping point?
Over the last decade, childhood obesity has grown into an epidemic, reflected in soaring rates of type 2 diabetes and recommendations that pediatricians check toddlers for elevated cholesterol.   view more (2008-08-04)

Obesity genetics
New evidence that genetics plays a key role in obesity is published today in the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. The findings relate to the genetics of modern Pima Indians who have an unusually high rate of obesity but could be extrapolated to all people.   view more (2007-10-16)

Obesity may be linked to middle ear effusions in children
Childhood obesity may be associated with a condition known as otitis media with effusion, which consists of fluid build-up in the middle ear space without symptoms of acute ear infection, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.   view more (2007-04-17)

Research shows fat fuels inflammation killer
New research by the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School shows that the biggest health threat to fat and obese people isn't the fat itself but the fact that the fat fuels a killer inflammation response in people.   view more (2006-03-09)

Diabetes, not obesity, increases risk of developing critical illness and early death
Diabetes puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early, but obesity without diabetes does not. A study published today in the open access journal Critical Care reveals that individuals suffering from diabetes are three times more at risk of developing critical illness and dying young than individuals who do not have diabetes.   view more (2006-09-25)

Many colorectal cancer survivors do not receive recommended follow-up care
A new analysis reveals that fewer than half of older patients successfully treated for colorectal cancer receive the recommended screening schedule to detect any recurrence of cancer.   view more (2008-09-08)

Waist-hip ratio should replace body mass index as indicator of mortality risk in older people
Older people with high waist-hip ratios (WHRs) have a higher mortality risk than those with a high body mass index, or BMI, a new study reveals.   view more (2006-08-08)

Metabolic Syndrome: It Should Concern You
The metabolic syndrome is a public health time bomb (see notes to editors). It may affect as many as 1 in 5 adults in some parts of Europe, greatly increasing the risk of developing heart disease and stroke. The metabolic syndrome is a ticking time bomb, and unless something is done about it, it will cost the European economy billions, and... view more... (2004-11-26)

Obese women in Canada are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer
Research in the United States has shown that obese people are less likely than their normal-weight peers to undergo screening for breast, colon and cervical cancer. Raj Padwal, Rebecca Mitchell and Scott Klarenbach, from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, have undertaken a study to see if this trend is also true in... view more... (2008-06-18)

Higher levels of obesity associated with greater health risks
The health risks for women who are extremely obese may be underestimated as a new study indicates they have a higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol than women at lower levels of obesity.   view more (2006-07-05)

Guidelines on SARS should be refined
Haematological manifestations in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome: retrospective analysis BMJ Volume 326, pp 1358-62 Current World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for diagnosing suspected SARS may not be sufficiently sensitive in assessing patients before admission to hospital, suggest researchers from Hong Kong in this week's... view more... (2003-06-18)

Learning the risks for stroke - and taking action
With this theme in mind, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) emphasises that most of the risks for stroke are also the major risks for coronary heart disease - and thus the object of the ESC's far-reaching prevention programme.   view more (2009-10-26)

Possibility that up to a quarter of intimate examinations performed by trainees are conducted without consent
A survey of medical students in this week's BMJ suggests that as many as a quarter of the intimate examinations, which they performed on anaesthetised patients, are carried out without adequate consent from the patient. The study was conducted after students at the University of Bristol expressed concerns that ethical guidelines requiring consent... view more... (2003-01-08)

Adhering to clinical guidelines decreases blood clots in the elderly
A multifaceted intervention designed to increase adherence with clinical guidelines for preventing deep-vein blood clots may decrease the rate of such blood clots among elderly patients.   view more (2006-10-24)
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