Why weight-loss drug Wegovy shows promise for heart disease
The weight-loss drug Wegovy can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by 20% in adults with heart disease...
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Fitness and staving off weight gain may be more important than weight loss to prevent kidney disease in obese adults
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As obesity is a contributing factor to chronic kidney disease, weight loss can help mitigate a...
Anti-obesity drug also protects against heart disease — what happens next?
The drug Wegovy helps people to lose weight, which might explain why it also reduces risk of death from cardiovascular...
Obesity Can Trigger Lasting Epigenetic Changes That Can Promote Inflammatory Disease
Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the underlying DNA sequence. These...
Recognizing and treating obesity as a disease – 60 Minutes
Almost half of American adults have obesity, a condition that was a fraction of that just 40 years ago and...
