Thursday, March 4, 2021, will again mark World Obesity Day, an annual event which draws attention to obesity, the many diseases on which it impacts, and the importance of prevention and treatment.

Individuals, healthcare providers and health organisations will be taking part, including many hospitals, clinics and obesity treatment centres.

In an analysis of women with early breast cancer, Black women had higher rates of obesity and other health conditions that can affect survival, compared with white women. The findings, 'Obesity, comorbidities and treatment selection in Black and White women with early breast cancer', were published in the journal Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS).

A retrospective study comparing single anastomosis duodeno-ileostomy (SADI-S) and one anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB-MGB), as a revisional procedure after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, has reported that comparable outcomes in terms of weight and BMI loss, remission of comorbidities and nutritional deficiency in short-to-medium term follow-up. However, SADI-S seems to cause fewer upper gastrointestinal complications and even looks a good option for patients suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) post-primary LSG.

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) have partnered with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to offer a new verification measure, the Bariatric Surgery Standards for Successful Programs, as part of CMMI’s Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI-A) programme. This partnership will offer meaningful quality measures for hospitals participating in the BPCI-A programme.

More than half of adults with type 2 diabetes had long-term remission following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, according to researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR. They reported that greater weight-independent likelihood of diabetes remission after RYGB indicates mechanisms beyond weight loss are contributing to improved beta cell function after the procedure.

Researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have reported Vitamin D regulates calcium in a section of the intestine that previously was thought not to have played a key role. The findings have important implications on how bowel disease, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, may disrupt calcium regulation.

Results of standard laboratory tests performed on adult outpatients to provide an overall picture of their health are fairly consistent between those with obesity and their leaner counterparts, investigators from the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), Department of Pathology, have reported.

A cross-sectional analysis of NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) data has found that more than 40% of US adults with overweight and nearly 10% with obesity did not consider themselves to be overweight. This trend has increased over the last two decades and was especially true of non-Hispanic Blacks and persons with low socioeconomic status.

A plant-based diet boosts after-meal burn, leads to weight loss and improves cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight individuals, according to the outcomes from a randomised control trial by researchers with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Thirty-day morbidity and mortality outcomes after bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS) during the COVID-19 pandemic are comparable to pre-pandemic levels, according to the findings from the Global 30-day outcomes after bariatric surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic (GENEVA) study.