Latest Obesity associated morbidity Stories

By David Douglas NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity is associated with a broad range of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events, Scottish and Australian researchers report. "That's a potentially huge public health problem and burden on the health care system," senior investigator Dr. John J. V. McMurray told Reuters Health. "Of course, our focus was just on cardiovascular disease and not the other problems also associated with obesity -- including cancer." The whole spectrum of...

By David DouglasNEW YORK -- Obesity is associated with a broad range of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events, Scottish and Australian researchers report."That's a potentially huge public health problem and burden on the health care system," senior investigator Dr. John J. V. McMurray told Reuters Health. "Of course, our focus was just on cardiovascular disease and not the other problems also associated with obesity -- including cancer."The whole spectrum of...

LONDON (Reuters) - Many obese people are in denial about their size and do not want to lose weight even if it would improve their health, according to a British poll on Monday.More than half of 4,000 people questioned by the charity Cancer Research UK were overweight or obese but a quarter of them were not concerned about losing weight."It's worrying to think that people are in denial about their weight -- people who are carrying extra weight face significant health risks including...

LONDON -- Many obese people are in denial about their size and do not want to lose weight even if it would improve their health, according to a British poll on Monday.More than half of 4,000 people questioned by the charity Cancer Research UK were overweight or obese but a quarter of them were not concerned about losing weight."It's worrying to think that people are in denial about their weight -- people who are carrying extra weight face significant health risks including cancer,"...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic kidney disease is much more likely to develop in overweight and obese people with high blood pressure (hypertension) than in those of ideal body weight, according to the results of a large study. In the past two decades, the prevalence of obesity in US adults has doubled from 15 percent to more than 30 percent such that two thirds of US adults are now overweight or obese. Overweight and obesity are established risk factors for several chronic...

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new prospective study provide additional evidence that obesity may increase women's risk of developing multiple myeloma, a type of bone-marrow cancer. Results of studies looking into a potential link between excess weight and multiple myeloma have been inconsistent, Cindy K. Blair of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center in Minneapolis and her colleagues note in the medical journal Epidemiology. Past studies have used...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity boosts the risk of venous thromboembolism -- the formation in veins of blood clots that can travel to the lungs -- and is a particularly strong risk factor among men and women under 40 years old, according to a new report. Obesity was first tied to fatal lung clots (aka, pulmonary embolisms) in 1927, Dr. Paul D. Stein of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan, and colleagues note in the American Journal of Medicine. There is also evidence...

Since 1927, obesity has been thought to be a risk factor for fatal pulmonary embolism (PE). Because of the high proportion of obesity in the general population, previous studies have not determined whether obesity is an independent risk factor for PE or deep venous thrombosis (DVT). In an extensive study published in the September issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers from St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, Michigan; Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and...