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Health Coaching + Change in Early-Life Care Benefits Babies, Moms drugs
August 16, 2021
An early-life, systems-change intervention plus coaching is associated with improved infant weight status and maternal postpartum care, according to a study published in the August issue of Pediatrics.
Patients who are obese or overweight are at risk for a more severe course of COVID-19 worldpharmanews
April 20, 2021
COVID-19 patients who are overweight or obese are more likely to develop a more severe infection than patients of healthy weight, and they require oxygen and invasive mechanical ventilation more often.
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.
Novo Nordisk's AM833 shows early success in obesity trials pharmatimes
June 22, 2020
Novo Nordisk has unveiled headline results from two clinical trials with a novel once-weekly subcutaneous amylin analogue (AM833) - a Phase II monotherapy trial and a Phase I combination trial of AM833 and once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide.
Overweight, Obesity May Up Early Mortality Risk in Pediatric ALL drugs
August 06, 2019
For Mexican children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), overweight and obesity are predictors of early mortality...
Overweight Men May Feel Stigmatized, Too drugs
August 01, 2019
It's not only women who agonize over their excess pounds. Stigma about being overweight can cause physical and emotional harm to men, too.
Overweight Kids Are at Risk for High Blood Pressure drugs
June 17, 2019
Overweight Kids Are at Risk for High Blood Pressure.
Many 'Dehumanize' People with Obesity drugs
May 24, 2019
Many people -- including those who are overweight themselves -- view people with obesity as less human or less evolved, new research reveals.
How Much Does Your Kid Weigh? Chances Are, You're Underestimating drugs
April 29, 2019
How Much Does Your Kid Weigh? Chances Are, You're Underestimating.
Economic impact of excess weight now exceeds $1.7 trillion worldpharmanews
November 01, 2018
The impact of obesity and overweight on the U.S. economy has eclipsed $1.7 trillion, an amount equivalent to 9.3 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, according to a new Milken Institute report on the role excess weight plays in the prevalence a

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