YINCHUAN, March 6 (Xinhua) — After diet and exercises have failed to make him thin, Yang Bin gets up the courage to tackle his obesity through surgery. Yang, 47, is 160 cm tall but weighs 120 kg. “I've had enough of it,” says the former technician in Wuzhong City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui …
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The idea that people with obesity may find other people with obesity physically attractive, also known as the âmutual attractionâ hypothesis, does not bear out under close examination, according to a new analysis published in Obesity. âWhat is new here is that, with a large international sample, we can …
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Bariatric (obesity) surgery has become increasingly common in Western countries as the ultimate means to reduce the excess weight in patients with morbid obesity. In Finland, almost a thousand such operations are performed every year and in Sweden eight times more, 30.000 in France and more …
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In obese male patients treated with either targeted therapy or immunotherapy, median overall survival (OS) was almost double that of patients with normal a BMI (HR, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.40-0.70; P = .04). BMI from 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2 was considered normal. BMI â¥30 kg/m2 was considered obese.
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