UroToday.com - This study reported in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention used the same Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) database as that by Andriole and colleagues in the NEJM article recently covered in Urotoday1. It is previously proposed that PSA levels in obese men could be due to hemodilution secondary to increased circulating blood volume. This study evaluated that phenomenon among 38,349 men randomized to the screened group of PLCO.

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Workers with morbid obesity have a significantly higher prevalence of more than 100 diseases and conditions than other employees, and those that had bariatric surgery reduced the prevalence of one-quarter of the diseases studied, according to a study of large employers in the February edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal on employee health issues.

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Addictive behaviour is determined by conscious, rapid thought processes, not necessarily by the content of visual stimuli as previously thought according to research funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial for Physical Activity, Weight Control, and Breast Cancer Risk Researchers describe the rationale and a possible design for randomized controlled trials that test the impact of physical activity and weight control on breast cancer risk.

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Numerous studies have shown that depression is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, but exactly how has never been clear. Now, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have shown that depression is linked with the accumulation of visceral fat, the kind of fat packed between internal organs at the waistline, which has long been known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — Obesity surgery-related
complications in the United States declined 21 percent between 2001 and
2006, and payments to hospitals for obesity surgery decreased by as much
as 13 percent, partly because there were fewer patient readmissions due to
complications, a new study reports.

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Only about a week left before Europe’s premier obesity conference Visit: http://www.easo.org/eco2009/press.htm for details of how to register to attend Wednesday 6 May to Saturday 9 May 2009 RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (http://www.rai.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — Obesity surgery-related
complications in the United States declined 21 percent between 2001 and
2006, and payments to hospitals for obesity surgery decreased by as much
as 13 percent, partly because there were fewer patient readmissions due to
complications, a new study reports.

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A man sits on a wall in the Canary Wharf financial district of London, April 1, 2009. REUTERS/Simon NewmanReuters - The results of a literature review suggest that obesity surgery produces greater weight loss than conventional treatment for moderately obese patients as well as those with severe obesity. The best operation, however, remains unclear.

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“All parents, regardless of race, should be alarmed” by the recent finding that “[m]ore than half a million 4-year-olds are obese, and [that] the numbers are even more startling among children of color,” a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial states (Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/25).

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