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...despite the fact that diabetes patients lost less weight after surgery than patients without the disease, 90% of the former group still saw their blood-sugar levels fall after the procedure. That meant they could also cut back significantly on the amount of medication they needed. According to Dr. Osama Hamdy, director of the Obesity Clinical Program at Joslin Diabetes Center, the chances may be even better for those patients who address their diabetes early on. "If you have had diabetes for a long time, your response to surgery may not be as good as that of people who have...
...study introduces a curious wrinkle in the evidence. Led by Dr. Guilherme Campos, director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at the University of California, San Francisco, the study found that gastric-bypass patients with diabetes did not lose as much weight as other patients after the surgery. Of the 310 patients in the study, 92% of those without diabetes were able to lose more than 40% of their excess weight - statistically, that's considered a successful procedure - while only 79% of diabetes patients were able to drop that much weight after one year. In both cases, doctors used the same...
...tightest format around. It begins with "news from Iraq and life during wartime," has several five-minute sermons on topics of the day, allows only two segments for interviews with newsmakers and journalists. As a break from the gargle of grim death, she answers nonpolitical questions from listeners ("Ask Dr. Maddow"). And toward the show's end she veers into the weird and wacky. For months she has monitored reports of severed feet washing up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest, and she's displayed nearly as magnificent an obsession with animal oddities as Stephen Colbert has with bears...
...Dr. Soren Snitker at the University of Maryland and his postdoctoral fellow, Evadnie Rampersaud, who is now at the University of Miami, the team studied 704 Amish men and women. Although the Amish are a genetically homogeneous group, the study of volunteers' genotypes still showed a genetic diversity that reflected the makeup of the general Caucasian population: Specifically, they exhibited a range of variations on the FTO gene, which previous studies have associated with obesity and high body mass index, or BMI. Experts say about half of all people of European descent possess at least one "heavy" variant...
...lessons aren't useful. In a previous Danish trial that studied a more urban population that was slightly less active than the agrarian Amish, scientists found that those with the obesity-prone copies of FTO did not have to exercise that much to reduce their weight and BMI. Notes Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, the current study, which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, highlights a critical new understanding in the relationship between genes and our lifestyle. It's long been known that we can compensate for our genetic makeup...