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Featured
Medication Confers Additional Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery in Young Adults
Three medications often prescribed by obesity medicine physicians are effective for young adults who have inadequate weight loss or regain weight after bariatric surgery.
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Obesity Tied to Risk of Diverticulosis
By analyzing a cohort of adults who underwent colonoscopy, gastroenterologists at Massachusetts General Hospital have determined that overweight and obesity substantially increase the risk of diverticulosis.
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BMI Linked to Diverticulitis in Women
Using data from the Nurses' Health Study, gastroenterologists at Massachusetts General Hospital found an independent association between BMI and risk of diverticulitis in women.
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Patient-reported Weight Agrees With Clinic Data One Year After Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery
Matthew M. Hutter, MD, and colleagues found excellent agreement between body weight reported by patients one year after bariatric surgery and the weights their hospitals reported to a national surgical database. Asking patients to report objective outcomes may ease data collection burden and increase follow-up time.
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Maternal Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods Linked to Weight Gain in Offspring
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH, Yiqing Wang, PhD, and colleagues found maternal consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with up to 26% increased risk of overweight or obesity in offspring during childhood and adolescence, independent of various maternal and offspring factors.
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SGK1 Is a Potential New Target to Prevent Obesity-related Atrial Fibrillation
Aneesh Bapat, MD, David Milan, MD, Saumya Das, MD, PhD, and colleagues demonstrated in a mouse model that genetic inhibition of serum glucocorticoid kinase 1 (SGK1) prevents some of the atrial fibrillation risk associated with diet-induced obesity, suggesting SGK1 is an attractive potential therapeutic target.
Obesity Contributors
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Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH
Daniel K. Podolsky Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director for Cancer Epidemiology, Mass General Cancer Center, Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine
Recent Article
Maternal Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods Linked to Weight Gain in Offspring
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Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA
Obesity Medicine Physician for Adults, Adolescents, and Children, Mass General Weight Center, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Affiliated Faculty, MGH Mongan Institute of Health Policy and Associate, MGH Disparities Solution Center
Recent Article
Review: Weight Regulation in Menopause
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Hamed Khalili, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Director of Clinical Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Division of Gastroenterology, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Initiating Oral Contraception Does Not Change Gut Microbiome in Healthy Women
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Wenjie Ma, MBBS, ScD
Instructor and Investigator in the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Assistant in Epidemiology in the Division of Gastroenterology, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Initiating Screening Before Age 50 Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.