November 17, 2024 — By 38%, Tirzepatide cuts the risk of bad outcomes in persons with obesity and an increasingly common form of heart failure that obesity causes. The diagnosis is heart failure with preserved ejection fraction or HFpEF. The measure of bad outcomes it prevents was a composite worsening heart failure or death from cardiovascular disease. Worsening heart […]
November 8, 2024 — Amid a steady stream of news from ObesityWeek, the CDC released new NHANES data this week documenting an ongoing rise in U.S. diabetes prevalence. Between 1999 and 2023, the age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes, diagnosed and undiagnosed, in adults rose from 9.7% to 14.3%. The total prevalence in adults between 2021 and 2023 was 15.8% – […]
June 7, 2024 — Mandisa Lynn Hundley was an American gospel and contemporary Christian recording artist. Known simply as Mandisa, her death on April 18 this year at the age of 47 was due to complications of class 3 obesity. Though obesity is quite common and its complications are frequent causes of death, Mandisa is a rare example of […]
February 9, 2020 — If you want an example of extremely unhelpful health reporting, look no further than two reports this week on obesity, surgery, and colorectal cancer. Two different studies. Precisely opposite findings on a difficult subject. Very little perspective. Taken at face value, one can only conclude that surgery might add to the risk of colorectal cancer […]
