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Pink Bikini Dietary Supplement by Lucy's Weight Loss System: Recall - Undeclared Drug Ingredient
Use of product may increase the risk of fatal heart attack or stroke, especially if used long term or taken in high doses, or if there is a history of heart disease.
Source: FDA MedWatch - December 10, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Empagliflozin: a new treatment option for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Authors: Dailey GE Abstract Empagliflozin is an oral sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor that reduces hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by decreasing renal glucose reabsorption and promoting urinary glucose excretion. In clinical trials, empagliflozin demonstrated significant improvements in glycemic control, as monotherapy and in combination regimens. In addition, empagliflozin was associated with weight loss and moderate reductions in blood pressure. In the EMPA-REG OUTCOME study, empagliflozin significantly reduced the risk of the composite primary endpoint of cardiovascular death, no...
Source: Drugs of Today - October 23, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Drugs Today (Barc) Source Type: research

Diabetes mellitus related biomarker: the predictive role of growth-differentiation factor-15
Publication date: Available online 9 October 2015 Source:Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews Author(s): Alexander E. Berezin Growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) is a stress-responsive cytokine, which belongs to super family of the transforming growth factor beta. GDF-15 is widely presented in the various cells (macrophages, vascular smooth muscle cells, adipocytes, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, fibroblasts), tissues (adipose tissue, vessels, tissues of central and peripheral nervous system) and organs (heart, brain, liver, placenta) and it plays an important role in the ...
Source: Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research and Reviews - October 10, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Text messaging patients reduces heart attack, stroke, smoking
Benefits to exercise, smoking cessation, and weight loss are well understood by patients and hospitals alike. What has been traditionally more difficult to pinpoint, however, are techniques to make those lifestyle modifications happen.   Among the software and tools being tested to trigger such changes, the simple practice of texting targeted reminders to patients has shown a certain degree of optimistic meddle. Mobile read more
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jack McCarthy Tags: Online Only Mobile Source Type: news

Diabetes: Study finds bariatric surgery beats diet, exercise
A study designed to compare bariatric surgery with lifestyle interventions found that Type II diabetics treated with gastric bypass or banding procedures fared better than patients who watched their diets and exercised. Results from “Bariatric Surgery versus Intensive Medical Therapy for Diabetes – 3-Year Outcomes,” which was funded by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiaries Ethicon and LifeScan, the Cleveland Clinic and the National Institutes of Health, were published online yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. The 3-year, 61-patient study randomized obese subjects 1 of 3 arms: Ro...
Source: Mass Device - July 2, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Clinical Trials Weight loss Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA) Source Type: news

Catching Dick: Not Why We Care About Weight
Amy Schumer said in her humorous acceptance speech at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards: "I'm like 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want, and that's the truth." The line, like many in her speech, is obviously very funny. But the humor is directed at a misperception that is not so funny. With our society's superficial focus on youth and appearance, we have emphasized all the wrong reasons for maintaining a healthy body weight, which has nothing to do with "catching dick." We are sold the idea that remaining slim is primarily important as a means of attracting the opposite sex, rather than as a pa...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 4, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Effect of weight loss surgery on cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke in overweight and obese post-menopausal women (I12-5C)
Conclusions: We did not observe any significant effect of weight loss surgery on reduction of cardiovascular endpoint of death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke.Disclosure: Dr. Saeed has nothing to disclose. Dr. Malik has nothing to disclose. Dr. Qureshi has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Saeed, O., Malik, A., Qureshi, A. Tags: Obesity and Neurological Disorders Poster Presentations Source Type: research

Effect of weight loss surgery on cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke in overweight and obese post-menopausal women (P1.071)
Conclusions: We did not observe any significant effect of weight loss surgery on reduction of cardiovascular endpoint of death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke.Disclosure: Dr. Saeed has nothing to disclose. Dr. Malik has nothing to disclose. Dr. Qureshi has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Saeed, O., Malik, A., Qureshi, A. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Becoming healthier may motivate your partner to join in
Conclusion This cohort study has found that individuals with unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, being inactive or being overweight are most likely to change these behaviours if their unhealthy partner also changes these behaviours. Having a partner who has consistently healthy behaviours was also associated with a greater likelihood of change in smoking and activity compared to a consistently unhealthy partner, but less so than having a partner who changed behaviour. There were some limitations to the study, including that: The study took into account some confounders, such as age and some health conditions, but oth...
Source: NHS News Feed - January 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Food/diet Source Type: news

Prayers, Facebook and Weight Loss
"When people talk to God, it is called prayer. When God talks to people, they call it schizophrenia." -- Dr. Jim Roach in his upcoming book, God's House Calls "Just like a prayer. Your voice can take me there" -- Madonna Until recently, my attitude toward prayer had been guided by President Harry S. Truman who said that "people who pray the loudest are the ones you lock your hen house from." I've always been intensely suspicious of anyone who seems too overt in their embrace of prayer, especially if the conversation deviates to matters concerning my checkbook or wallet. Praying out loud was something I never did. Unti...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 20, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Yoga may help protect against heart disease
ConclusionOverall, this review suggests that yoga may be beneficial in reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.While these are encouraging findings, the authors also caution that these are based on trials with some limitations, including: There was a wide variation in the type of yoga practised, the frequency and the length of each session across the studies. This means it is difficult to say what the actual effects of each approach are, as the overall effects are just an average across all of these approaches. Some may have more of an effect and some may have less. The review does not rep...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 16, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Heart/lungs Obesity Source Type: news

UK 'among worst' for cancer linked to obesity
Conclusion This international study has shown alarming increases in cases of cancer that can be attributed to high BMI. Overall, they estimated that 3.6% of cancers in adults (aged over 30 years) worldwide are caused by high BMI, with the proportion attributed to obesity slightly higher in women than in men. In the UK, 4.4% of all cases of cancer per year in men and 8.2% of all cases of cancer per year in women, were estimated to be attributable to obesity. The research focused on cancers that the WCRF has already established are linked to high BMI. When looking at these cancers, the UK was joint second highest in the worl...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Obesity Source Type: news

This year's top 10 advances in cardiovascular disease
Progress in the fight against heart disease and stroke came on many fronts during 2014, from novel drugs and procedures to improvements and newfound benefits from existing treatments. In the December 2014 Harvard Heart Letter, Editor in Chief Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt selected 10 of the most important advances. New drugs cut cholesterol levels by half. A new class of drugs, given by injection just once or twice a month, can slash harmful LDL cholesterol levels by about 50%. Studies are under way to see if any of these experimental agents, called PCSK9 inhibitors, prevent heart attacks or improve heart disease survival. Replacing...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - November 24, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The cost‐effectiveness of primary care referral to a UK commercial weight loss programme
This study investigated whether such a programme was cost‐effective compared with usual care. A decision‐analytical Markov model was developed to estimate the lifetime costs and benefits of the referral programme compared with usual care and enable a cost‐utility analysis. The model cohort transited between body mass index classifications and type 2 diabetes, stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) with risk, cost and effect parameter values taken from published literature. The cost per incremental quality‐adjusted life year (QALY) was calculated. Extensive deterministic and scenario sensitivity analyses and probabil...
Source: Clinical Obesity - November 19, 2014 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: D. M. Meads, C. T. Hulme, P. Hall, A. J. Hill Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Cardiovascular effects of Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists
Patients with type 2 diabetes have a several-fold increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease when compared with nondiabetic controls. Myocardial infarction and stroke are responsible for 75% of all death in patients with diabetes, who present a 2-4x increased incidence of death from coronary artery disease. Patients with diabetes are considered for cardiovascular disease secondary prevention because their risk level is similar to that reported in patients without diabetes who have already suffered a myocardial infarction. More recently, with a better risk factors control, mainly in intensive LDL cholesterol target...
Source: Cardiovascular Diabetology - October 22, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Francisco SaraivaAndrei Sposito Source Type: research