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Want to Lose Weight? Add This One Thing to Your Diet
What are the best ways to lose weight? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Keck Medicine of USC, 500+ internationally renowned doctors at a leading academic medical center, on Quora: Learn the secret to losing weight - and improve your overall health at the same time. Fiber. It's not a sexy solution, but it's one that works wonders for maintaining a healthy weight. Beans, vegetables, fruit and grains all contain fiber, which helps keep your digestive tract clean, healthy and at peak function. But, did you know that...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Metabolic syndrome as a predictor of perioperative outcomes in primary bariatric surgery, a MBSAQIP survey
ConclusionPatients with metabolic syndrome are at increased odds of peri-operative complications after bariatric surgery.
Source: Surgical Endoscopy - February 3, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: research

Drug treatments to restore vascular function and diabesity.
Abstract Over the last decades, an escalating rate of type 2 diabetes has paralleled an epidemic rise in the prevalence of obesity. Both diabetes and obesity confer an increased risk of cardiovascular comorbidities, including hypertension, coronary artery disease and stroke. Vascular dysfunction, represented by impaired endothelial release of vasodilator substances or defective smooth muscle vasodilator reactivity, is the early stage of the process leading to atherosclerosis and a common finding in patients with diabesity. It is understandable, therefore, that effective treatments for diabesity should restore vasc...
Source: Annales Pharmaceutiques Francaises - January 1, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Cardillo C Tags: Ann Pharm Fr Source Type: research

NAFLD in Cardiovascular Diseases: A Contributor or Comorbidity?
In conclusion, a more comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and management of patients with NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases is needed to optimize clinical outcomes. [...] Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 333 Seventh Avenue, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10001, USAArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstract  |  Full text
Source: Seminars in Liver Disease - October 14, 2022 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Chen, Bing Tang, W.H Wilson Rodriguez, Mario Corey, Kathleen E. Sanyal, Arun J. Kamath, Patrick S. Bozkurt, Biykem Virk, Hafeez Ul Hassan Pressman, Gregg S. Lazarus, Jeffrey V. El-Serag, Hashem B. Krittanawong, Chayakrit Tags: Review Article Source Type: research

Short-term cardiovascular events after bariatric surgery in patients with metabolic syndrome
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with MetS have an increased frequency of cardiac events following bariatric surgery. Future studies should determine if optimization of 1 or more components of MetS or other related co-morbidities reduces the cardiovascular risk for patients.PMID:37659898 | DOI:10.1016/j.soard.2023.07.009
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery - September 2, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Maryna Chumakova-Orin Jennifer L Ingram Loretta G Que Neha Pagidipati Alexander Gordee Maragatha Kuchibhatla Keri A Seymour Source Type: research