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Android body fat distribution is related to high cardiovascular disease and mortality rate. People with android obesity have higher hematocrit and red blood cell count and higher blood viscosity than people with gynoid obesity. Blood pressure is also higher in those with android obesity which leads to cardiovascular disease. [15]
For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates in the United States may finally be heading in the right direction and new weight loss drugs like semaglutide could be part of the reason why. A ...
Published in JAMA Health Forum on Friday, the study, "Changes in Adult Obesity Trends in the US," found that between 2022 and 2023, obesity in American adults between ages 26-75 dropped about 0.15%.
A new class of weight loss drugs is transforming the U.S. healthcare system in ways that could extend to equally hard-to-treat areas like substance abuse, according to speakers at the Reuters ...
Findings in this study led to the terms “apple-shaped” vs. “pear-shaped” for android obesity and gynoid obesity, which are adipose tissue distributions that were at the time more typical of men and women (respectively), with the latter being more metabolically benign than the former. • Identification of a gene that plays a significant ...
Set point theory does not on its own explain why body mass index for humans, measured as a proxy for fat, tends to change with increasing age or why obesity levels in a population vary depending on socioeconomic or environmental factors (or why weight tends to change for an individual when socioeconomic status and environment change).
The study reported Friday, which Novo Nordisk calls REDEFINE 1, enrolled people with obesity or who are overweight and have at least one health condition – the same group for whom Wegovy and ...
Fatima Cody Stanford is an American obesity medicine physician, internist, and pediatrician and an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. [1] She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of obesity. [2] [3] She is recognized for shifting the global perception of obesity as a chronic disease. [4]