Sentences with phrase «health of obese patients»

«Our results suggest that restoring the kidney - protective action of autophagy may improve the kidney health of obese patients.»

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A study from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that in morbidly obese patients, bariatric surgery performed prior to a total hip or knee replacement can reduce in - hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications and improve patient health, but it does not reduce the risk of needing a revision surgery.

Professor Martin Gulliford, senior author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London, said: «Current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.

Using available databases reflecting the utilization of health services in California, Florida and Nebraska — all three of which give access to deidentified information on individual patients — the research team identified 2,261 obese patients with asthma who underwent bariatric surgery from 2007 to 2009 and for whom information covering the two years before and after their surgery was available.

«Obese patients who survive their sepsis hospitalization use more health care resources and require more Medicare spending — but this apparent increase in resource use is a result of living longer, not increased use per day alive,» says senior author Theodore Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Health Shealth care resources and require more Medicare spending — but this apparent increase in resource use is a result of living longer, not increased use per day alive,» says senior author Theodore Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Health SHealth System.

«We have an application with the NIH [National Institutes of Health] to test this in obese patients that exhibit bingelike behavior.»

As a doctor of physical therapy, gut health provides insight into why my patients (especially overweight or obese patients) develop osteoarthritis in non-weight-bearing joints like the wrist, by pointing to a problem with systemic inflammation.

Health care providers might be better able to help their overweight and obese patients by screening for sleep disorders, according to researchers Jean - Philippe Chaput, of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, and Angelo Tremblay, of Laval University in Quebec.

Here is a link if anyone is able to go see an exhibit near them it is well worth it... There are examples of what a obese patients organs would look like... the direct health effects of of obesity and an unhealthy lifestyle....

Pfizer Animal Health conducted a study that found vets consider 47 % of their patients are overweight or obese while only 17 % of their owners thought the same.

A study by Pfizer Inc.'s Animal Health business showed that 47 % of veterinarians felt their canine patients were obese, while only 17 % of dog owners agreed.