Weight Gain
Studies from Harvard University further understanding of weight gain
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, February 7th, 2008
A new study, 'Weight reduction and cardiovascular and metabolic disease prevention: clinical trial update,' is now available. "In children and adults, weight gain is accompanied by the early and more aggressive manifestations of well-recognized risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Because insulin resistance and the later development of type 2 diabetes mellitus also accompany weight gain, the term cardiometabolic risk is now commonly used to describe this emerging global health problem," scientists in the United States report.
"Weight loss will improve cardiometabolic risk. However, less is known about the effect of weight loss on the...
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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2008-02-07)
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