Patients with psoriasis attending the University of Utah Dermatology Clinics were more likely to be obese and to smoke compared with nonpsoriatic patients and more likely to be obese compared with other large cohorts with psoriasis.
Doctors may have more difficulty in detecting prostate cancer in obese men, which could lead to delayed diagnosis and increased risk of death, researchers say.
Obese men face an increased risk of dying from prostate cancer and doctors should be especially thorough when checking these patients for the disease, a new study suggests.
Obesity has long been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Now, researchers are adding kidney failure to the list of ailments, as a new research has found that obese people have up to a seven times greater risk of developing end-stage renal disease, more simply known as kidney failure, than normal weight people.
People who overeat or who aren’t physically active face a higher risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), a type of cancer involving the body’s lymphatic system, according to a report by Canadian researchers in the American Journal of Epidemiology. “Physical activity, obesity, and (calorie) intake are modifiable lifestyle factors,” Dr. Sai Yi Pan from Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Ottawa, told Reuters Health. “Our findings support the adoption of a healthy lifestyle to prevent the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.” Pan and colleagues examined the influence of recreational physical activity, obesity, and calorie intake on the risk of NHL using data from Canada’s National Enhanced Cancer Surveillance System. More than 1000 NHL patients and 3000 comparison subjects were involved. Individuals with NHL tended to have higher total calorie intakes and were more likely to be obese than individuals without NHL, the authors report.
A growing number of women are overweight or obese when they become pregnant, a condition that is risky to both mother and baby, a new study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.
Predicting a person’s risk of death from their body mass index or BMI, which takes both their weight and height into consideration, may be less accurate than previously thought, according to a new report.
After surgery to remove a cancerous prostate, the malignancy is more likely to recur among obese men than in those of normal weight, a new study shows.
New research suggests that you’re not the only one affected by the things you ingest or inhale: Babies born to women who smoked or were obese during pregnancy are much more likely to become overweight as young children.
They may be among the world’s hardest workers but a new study shows most Americans don’t break enough of a sweat when it comes to exercise.