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Expert Perspective: The Obesity Paradox with Salvatore Carbone, PhD

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Salvatore Carbone, PhD: First, I’d like to point out that obesity is a major risk factor for cardiometabolic disease. There are significant data that show that if you have obesity, you have a high risk of developing coronary heart disease, heart failure, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidemia. [1]

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

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

It became the first approved drug for chronic weight management in adults with obesity since 2014. Concluding Thoughts With the increased interventions of promising weight loss drugs not just for weight reduction, but also for improvement in associated risk factors, patients and providers are offered renewed hope.

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"A patient just arrived as a transfer for NSTEMI."

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

I quickly reviewed the patient’s records and saw that she was a 53 year old woman with a history of BMI 40, but no other identifiable risk factors for coronary artery disease. The absence of risk factors for coronary artery disease does not mean a patient is not at risk for OMI. Buller, C. Starovoytov, A.,

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