Sentences with phrase «obese patients as»

In fact, one study revealed that docs view obese patients as lazy and difficult.

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Despite the fact that this study was conducted in resistance trained males, the observation that insulin and blood glucose levels decreased significantly indicates that time - restricted feeding like leangains method could also improve health markers related to patients such as diabetics and obese patients.

However, seriously underweight anorexic patients who see themselves as obese are not treated with weight - reducing liposuction by physicians who go along with their irrational belief.

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

In March of last year, the International Diabetes Federation endorsed bariatric surgery as a type 2 diabetes treatment for obese patients, citing studies indicating that it triggers remission in about 85 percent of patients.

Our evidence showed that severe morbidly obese patients can benefit almost equally as normal weight patients in pain relief and gains in physical function.»

To qualify, patients must be an acceptable surgical risk and be defined as either severely obese with a BMI of 40 or greater or have a BMI of 35 or greater with at least one related condition: diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity - related cardiomyopathy or heart muscle disease or severe joint disease.

Physicians may want to consider tailoring drugs based on a patient's BMI because a drug may not be as effective in obese or morbidly obese patients.

«Based on our finding that being overweight or obese is a risk factor for multiple myeloma in MGUS patients, and since extra weight is a modifiable risk factor, we hope that our results will encourage intervention strategies to prevent the progression of this condition to multiple myeloma as soon as MGUS is diagnosed,» Chang said.

«Our findings provide evidence that the results of earlier studies — that patients who had normal weights were at higher risk of death — may have been related to unintended weight loss as opposed to a protective effect of being overweight or obese.

The review found that 19.3 percent of the patients diagnosed with a depressive disorder reported lower back pain, as did 16.75 percent of patients diagnosed as obese (a body mass index, or BMI, > 30kg / m ²), 16.53 percent of the patients diagnosed with nicotine dependence, and 14.66 percent with reported alcohol abuse.

«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.

However, research has been inconclusive as to whether the higher related medical costs in obese TKR patients are directly due to a higher BMI or related comorbidities.

«Our study emphasizes the importance of individualized therapy strategies and lifestyle interventions in order to prevent structural knee joint degeneration as early as possible in obese and overweight patients at risk for osteoarthritis or with symptomatic osteoarthritis,» Dr. Gersing said.

«We were also surprised to note that our patients who were presenting from the community were almost twice as likely to be obese as the general population in Massachusetts (34 percent compared to 23 percent).

The current study was designed to investigate whether bariatric surgery — regarded as the most effective option for morbidly obese patients — might have a greater effect on asthma - associated risks.

Of these, 20 (4 %) had TTS that had been precipitated by happy and joyful events, such as a birthday party, wedding, surprise farewell celebration, a favourite rugby team winning a game, or the birth of a grandchild; 465 (96 %) had occurred after sad and stressful events, such as death of a spouse, child or parent, attending a funeral, an accident, worry about illness, or relationship problems; one occurred after an obese patient got stuck in the bath.

«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.»

Marketed primarily as a therapy for diabetics, the compound has long been used as an appetite suppressant for obese patients.

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.

This has enormous treatment implications, as we can try to develop patient - centered interventions that help normalize reward function in some obese individuals» brains.

«Many obese patients are on medication for chronic conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression and diabetes,» says Chand.

As demonstrated by a recent metaanalysis of prospective cohort studies even obese men and women with normal cardiometabolic clustering had a 4-fold higher relative risk of developing T2DM, although this risk was only half of that of metabolically unhealthy obese patients regardless of sex differences in the progression toward T2DM (40).

For patients with stage II or stage III colon cancer, the difference in long - term survival for leaner patients compared to those with a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or greater — which physicians refer to as «very obese» — was comparable to the difference between those who had surgery followed by chemotherapy and those who had only surgery.

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.

Thus, replacement with timed - released T3 preparations to normalize the reduced intracellular T3 levels is appropriate in such patients despite so - called «normal» levels while, on the contrary, T4 - only preparations do not address the physiologic abnormalities of such patients and should be considered inappropriate replacement for obese patients or those with insulin resistance, leptin resistance, or diabetes, as they do not address the physiologic abnormalities in this group.

Total fasting was compared with a 300 kcal / day very low calorie diet providing 56 g protein and 12 g carbs in 14 healthy obese patients, selected as matched pairs, over a period of 28 days.

I use the MJS equation as a calorie predictor and find it is appropriate for overweight and obese patients.

I have read that protein requirements should be based on the patients acutal body weight (as per the TranTasminDietitan Wound Care Group Guidelines for Pressure Ulcers), though I can not find justification for this especially in our obese patients.

Once a individual devlops a disease such as Diabetes, typically type II in obese patients all of the other cardio vascular disease processes seem to come forth quickly.

Many studies have documented physician bias against obese patients, as pervasive among MDs as it is among the general public.

The current data, however, would suggest that these diets are safe within this relatively short period of time (2 mo), as assessed by the reported clinical biochemistry, and that, under medically supervised conditions, they could be used to achieve considerable weight loss to improve mortality and morbidity in obese patients.

The best chapters were the two - parters, one dealing with the patient who loses his life, as I'd mentioned, and the other with how anesthesiologists have immense trouble with morbidly obese people.

Veterinarians classify 59 percent of their feline patients as overweight or obese, according to a 2016 survey by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention.

I would also submit that even if it were all about overeating — and I don't believe it is the case — we don't forgive obese patients for their poor lifestyle choices although we forgive those, such as smoking, that lead to cancer and transplant surgery.