HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) –The morbidly obese may not be
the only people who should be eligible for bariatric surgery to lose
weight, U.S. researchers report.
AP - A man who weighed 698 pounds died Friday of heart failure after undergoing an operation to remove 80 percent of his stomach in a desperate effort to reduce his weight.
AP - Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than normal weight people, and when they do, their wait is an average of a year to 18 months longer, a new study found.
AP - A man who gained national media attention by claiming he was not allowed to adopt a baby because of his weight was awarded temporary custody of the child, but the judge chided him and his wife, saying they knew the primary reason the boy had been removed from their home had nothing to do with obesity.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Obese people find it harder to
fight infections, and a weakened immune response may be to blame, suggests
a new study from Boston University researchers.
Reuters - Obese children who watch a lot
of television are more likely to have high blood pressure than
heavy children who don’t spend as much time in front of the
tube, the results of a new study shows.
Reuters - Obesity decreases the chances that a
woman will get pregnant, and the more obese she is, the worse
her prospects of conception, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
AFP - Obese mice are less able to fight off bacterial infection than lean mice, according to a study released Monday that supports emerging evidence of a link between obesity and a dysfunctional immune system.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) — Obesity and diabetes — risk
factors so often linked to heart disease — can also affect the incidence
and severity of cancer, a collection of four new studies suggests.
AFP - The epidemic of obesity among US teenagers could lead to double digit increases in cases of heart disease and heart-disease related deaths by 2035, according to a new study.