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Rethinking BMI for Older Adults: The Obesity Paradox
It means that an elderly person with a “normal” BMI is skinny, and such a condition is not healthy. “Sarcopenic obesity,” is ...
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Obesity Could Cause 40% of Hormone-Positive Breast Cancers in Older Women
Obesity is a more powerful driver of breast cancer than previously thought, a new study suggests.About 40% of hormo ...
BusinessMirror3d
Obesity drugs for elderly Americans seen costing Medicare $35 billion
Giving older Americans access to weight-loss medicines through the US Medicare program would cost $35 billion over nine years, according to a congressional analysis. Expanding coverage of weight-loss ...
Obesity drugs could cost US health insurance system $35bn, study finds
Covering weight-loss drugs for elderly Americans on the state-backed Medicare health insurance programme would cost the US government $35bn over the next nine years, a congressional analysis has found ...
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Study: Chubby patients have better recovery rates from stroke
SUITA, Osaka Prefecture—Although obesity raises the risk of cerebral stroke, moderately chubby elderly individuals are more likely to recover from the life-threatening condition than their ...
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Fibroblast growth factor 21 and survival in the elderly: Polsenior2 study results
A new research paper was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science ...
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Consistent maintenance of systolic BP below 130 mm Hg effective strategy to reduce diabetes risk in elderly, finds research
A new study published in the journal of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism showed that the risk of getting new-onset diabetes ...