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Exploring Obesity and the Latest Advances in Weight Loss Drugs during Healthy Weight Week

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

In today’s society, the prevalence of obesity has become a significant concern. have obesity, and this rate has increased by more than 10 percentage points in the past two decades. Understanding the prevalence of obesity is crucial in comprehending why events like Healthy Weight Week are essential. of adults in the U.S.

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Are ambulatory blood pressure parameters associated more with central adiposity than with total adiposity? Results of the ELSA-Brasil study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Background Worldwide obesity has a high prevalence, as well as carries a high risk of several chronic diseases, including hypertension. Studies of the association between obesity and ambulatory blood pressure (BP) are scarce and most use only body mass index (BMI) as indicator of adiposity.

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Perceived Stress From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiometabolic End Points in Young Adulthood: An 18?Year Prospective Study

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundWe investigated how childhood‐to‐adulthood perceived stress patterns predict adult cardiometabolic risk.Methods and ResultsThis study included 276 participants from the Southern California Children's Health Study (2003–2014), and a follow‐up assessment (2018–2021). 2.45]), and diastolic blood pressure (β=0.94 [95% CI, 0.13–1.75]).

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How Apob & Visceral Fat Increase Your Risk Of Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Even more will get through in the setting of other cardiovascular risk factors such as smoking and high blood pressure. If you have high blood pressure, you are just throwing those tennis balls (ApoB) harder. Trends in the number of obese and severely obese people by region. Obesity (Silver Spring).

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Expert Perspective: The Obesity Paradox with Salvatore Carbone, PhD

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Can you please explain the concept of an obesity paradox? Salvatore Carbone, PhD: First, I’d like to point out that obesity is a major risk factor for cardiometabolic disease. 2, 3] This association is more pronounced for those with class I obesity, which is a body mass index (BMI) between 30-35 kg/m2.

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ACC/AHA Release Updated 2023 Guidelines for Atrial Fibrillation

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

These new guidelines provide necessary updates to both the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and the 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation.

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Laurie Shroyer Single- Versus Multicenter Surgeons' Risk-Adjusted Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedural Outcomes The Annals of Thoracic Surgery May 2018 Thomas Schwann Operative Outcomes of Multiple-Arterial Versus Single-Arterial Coronary Bypass Grafting The Annals of Thoracic Surgery April 2018 Alexander Brescia Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia (..)