Sentences with phrase «more obese patients»

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Obese patients were accordingly advised to replace fats and sweets with a more prudent dietary pattern characterized by a high intake of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, poultry, and fish (70, 71).

When a colleague asked him to try the surgery on an obese diabetic patient, he agreed reluctantly, noting that the surgery would be riskier because diabetic patients are usually more prone to infections and require greater insulin regulation.

Teixeira snips, staples, and stitches, maneuvering a pair of two - foot rods designed for obese patients whose girth keeps the surgeon more than an arm's length away.

This phenomenon is more frequent in obese patients, in whom the size and number of PPAT adipocyte cells are higher.

«Why prostate cancer is more aggressive in obese patients.»

Super obese patients may have had diabetes for a longer duration and are more likely to have complications after surgery resulting in adverse health outcomes, explains Schauer.

We want to make people more aware of this problem and we hope that prevention campaigns regarding obese and diabetic patients will focus on highlighting this increased risk.»

If more obese and diabetic patients have to have an operation because of cancer, healthcare costs will increase.

When the researchers zoomed in on these patients» medical histories and looked at their BMI trajectories they found that obese participants were more likely not only to develop kidney cancer, but also to die from it.

«Cancer patients who are obese and diabetic are an already more vulnerable group of individuals when it comes to surgery, as they have an increased risk of developing complications both during and after surgery.

«In addition, practitioners have to look for other risk factors that are more common in obese patients such as diabetes, hypertension or coronary artery disease.»

«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 System.

Despite increased understanding of heart disease risk factors and the need for preventive lifestyle changes, patients suffering the most severe type of heart attack have become younger, more obese and more likely to have preventable risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

More research needs to be done to see if the same outcome can be achieved in morbidly obese patients.

The findings may have implications for a significant percentage of obese patients, many of whom consume more than half their daily calories at night.

More than half of heart patients continue smoking after hospitalisation, according to results of the EUROASPIRE V survey presented today at EuroPrevent 2018, a European Society of Cardiology congress.1 Nearly half of obese...

More than half of the patients in the trial (54 percent) were overweight and 5.5 percent were very obese.

In one study of more than 300 autopsy reports, obese patients were 1.65 times more likely than others to have significant undiagnosed medical conditions, including bowel disease and lung cancer.

The images of the walls and valves of the heart produced by MUGA scans are more accurate and detailed than the ultrasound images generated by an echocardiogram, especially in obese patients, and are helpful in diagnosing heart failure or heart valve disease.

Smoking Is Associated with More Abdominal Fat in Morbidly Obese Patients.

More recently, Boden et al. 34 performed an in - patient study in obese T2D individuals who were fed a low - carbohydrate (< 20 g / day) diet for 2 weeks.

Researchers now know more about visceral fat, which is deep in the abdomen of overweight and obese patients.

According to «USA Today», it costs about $ 1,400 more a year to treat an average obese patient than a person at a healthy weight.

The study of nearly 4,400 U.S. adults treated for colon cancer conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that obese patients were one - quarter to one - third more likely to die over the next eight years than their normal - weight counterparts.