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New management: Promising drug for people living with obesity pharmatimes
February 08, 2022
NICE recommends appetite suppressing drug which can reduce a patient’s by more than 10%.
Keeping Weight Stable Could Help Save Your Brain drugs.com
January 25, 2022
Older adults who maintain a steady weight as they age are less likely to experience rapid cognitive decline...
Obese Men May Have Better Survival With Advanced Prostate Cancer drugs
July 13, 2021
When men have advanced prostate cancer, obesity might offer something of a survival advantage, a preliminary study suggests.
Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide cuts body weight in large-scale trial pharmatimes
February 24, 2021
Novo Nordisk’s glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist semaglutide significantly cut body weight in a large-scale trial of adults who are overweight or obese.
Weight Gain Pattern Early in Life May Affect Later Lung Function drugs.com
September 18, 2020
hildren with lower birth size and slower body mass index (BMI) gain in early childhood have lower lung function at 7 years, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in the European Respiratory Journal.
Obesity linked to higher risk of dementia pharmatimes
June 30, 2020
New research suggests that weight management could play a significant role in reducing the risk of developing dementia, after finding that obesity is linked to a higher risk of the condition up to 15 years later.
Obesity May Boost Effectiveness of a Lung Cancer Therapy drugs
December 31, 2019
Obesity is seldom a friend to health, but in one medical context it might give patients a slight advantage, new research suggests.
BMI, Survival Linked in NSCLC Treated With Atezolizumab drugs
December 30, 2019
Baseline high body mass index (BMI) is associated with improved survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with atezolizumab ...
T2DM Risk Cut With Weight Loss Even in Nonoverweight People drugs
December 26, 2019
Losing weight is consistently associated with reduced type 2 diabetes risk across body mass index (BMI), family history, and genetic risk categories ...
Frailty Assessment May Aid Liver Transplant Evaluation drugs
September 20, 2019
According to a study published online Sept. 11 in JAMA Surgery, frailty assessment as part of liver transplant evaluation may help identify transplant candidates at higher risk for death.

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