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Two new drugs for treating obesity are on course to become available in the next few years — and they offer advantages beyond those of the highly effective blockbuster drugs already on the market. The first, called orforglipron, is easier to use and to produce, and it will probably be ...
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In Asian populations, a high prevalence of stroke, high salt intake and high salt sensitivity, the effects of which are partly augmented by epidemic obesity, are associated with hypertension. These factors are closely associated with resistant hypertension, especially with the disrupted circadian rhythm...
A PubMed search was made using “research ethics training”, bioethics, and Africa, generating 117 articles. From these, we searched for literature on long-term training of African scholars to develop research ethics capacity, the priority areas, and best practices of bioethics or research ethics...
First created in the mid-1800s, the BMI has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s.(iStock) "The BMI is based on research from the 1830s meant solely to study populations of white European men and does not have the medical relevance or authority it has been...
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is considered a metabolic disorder that has been steadily increasing globally and seems to parallel the increasing prevalence of obesity. It consists of a cluster of risk factors which traditionally includes obesity and hyperlip
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The same argument can be made for diabetes. Obesity does not appear to be a risk factor at all since its prevalence in the COVID-19 population is the same as in the population at large, regardless of age. Cautioning older individuals with hypertension or diabetes that they are at high ...