HCPLive

JANUARY 5, 2024

Patients with lean NAFLD had fewer metabolic comorbidities but maintained similar risk of NASH, cirrhosis, nonliver cancer, and mortality compared to their overweight and obese counterparts.

BMI 105

BMI Obesity Cancer Outcomes 105

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Obesity is a known driver of endometrial cancer. In this issue of the JCI, Gómez-Banoy and colleagues investigated a cohort of patients with advanced endometrial cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the interaction between programmed cell death receptor-1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1).

Cancer 63

Cancer Obesity BMI Biomarkers 63

DAIC

MARCH 8, 2024

Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has approved an additional indication for Wegovy ( semaglutide ) to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight along with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity.

Obesity 111

Obesity Heart Disease Heart attacks Heart Attack 111

DAIC

MARCH 5, 2024

They adjusted for the participants' use of tobacco and other characteristics, including their age, sex, race, body mass index or BMI, obesity, diabetes, physical activity levels, and socioeconomic status. For a more complete funding disclosure and list of authors, please see the full JAHA research article.

Heart attacks 98

Heart attacks Heart Attack Stroke Strokes 98