Semaglutide reduces COVID-19 related deaths in patients with obesity and CVD
Semaglutide reduced the rates of COVID-19-related adverse events, including death, in those who had overweight or obesity and established...
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Journal Watch 29/05/2024
Welcome to our weekly round-up of the latest bariatric and obesity-related papers published in the medical literature. As ever, we have...
New survey reveals how surgeons define innovation in real life
A recent survey carried out by Sermo, a physician-only online community of more than 1.3 million healthcare providers globally,...
Survey finds COVID-19 pandemic changed public’s view of obesity
Nearly a third of Americans (29%) say COVID-19 made them more worried than ever about having obesity prompting about 28 million people to...
Excess weight associated with increased risk of COVID-19 infection and long COVID
High body mass index (BMI), rather than high blood sugar levels, are associated with excess risks of COVID-19 infection and long COVID,...
COVID-19 vaccine protects people of all body weights from hospitalisation and death
COVID-19 vaccines have greatly reduced the number of cases of severe COVID-19 disease for everyone regardless of their body size,...
Diabetics at almost double risk of death from Covid 19
People with diabetes were almost twice as likely to die with Covid 19 and almost three times as likely to be critically or severely ill...
Higher rates of newly diagnosed T2DM after with mild COVID infection
German researchers have noted a possible association between mild COVID-19 cases and subsequently diagnosing type 2 diabetes. The...
Bariatric surgery cost-effective in reducing COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality
Increasing the number of bariatric and metabolic surgeries (BMS) would be expected to reduce COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality, as...
Studies report children gained weight during the pandemic
Two US studies have reported that children gained excess weight during the COVID-19 pandemic and the researchers urged policy-makers to...
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