CEN || Lipid & Metabolic Disorders

Childhood obesity predicts adult cardiovascular risks

Posted on: 06/05/2014 - 22:15

Teens who are overweight, but metabolically healthy, still run a significantly higher risk of developing increased carotid intimal-medial thickness and other cardiovascular risk factors as adults. A...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Statin users eat more, gain more weight during 1999-2010

Posted on: 24/04/2014 - 21:00

U.S. adults who take statins consumed 14.4% more fat and 9.6% more calories in 1999-2000 than a decade earlier, while the prevalence of statin use more than doubled during that time, investigators...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

Too much dietary sugar raises CVD mortality

Posted on: 03/02/2014 - 21:00

Excess intake of sugar in the diet significantly raises the risk of cardiovascular mortality, independently of other risk factors, according to an analysis of National Health and Nutrition...

Field of Interest: Cardiology
Type: News Item

‘Obesity paradox’ refuted

Posted on: 15/01/2014 - 22:00

Mortality is not lower among adults with diabetes who were overweight or obese at diagnosis than among those who were of normal weight, as has been suggested by proponents of the "obesity...

Field of Interest: Endocrinology
Type: News Item

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