Obesity Ups Risk of Kidney Stones
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TUESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- Scientists have uncovered yet another reason to maintain a healthy weight: Obesity and weight gain are linked with an increased risk of developing kidney stones.
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Women who are overweight or obese have a much higher chance of becoming pregnant because their Pill has failed, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK  - Women who regularly eat fruits and vegetables may have lower odds of developing painful gallstones, the results of a large study suggest.
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Being obese or even overweight may increase a person's risk of developing up to a dozen different types of cancer, European researchers report in a new study.
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Being obese boosts the risk of half a dozen types of cancer, and the odds strengthen as one's waistline thickens, according to a major review published on Saturday by The Lancet.
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Obese people may be less likely to develop prostate cancer but more likely to die  of it, a study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Obese men who undergo surgery  for prostate cancer are more likely than their non-obese peers  to experience a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels,  a sign that their disease is returning, new research suggests.  Moreover, this seems to be true even in cases in which all of  the cancer was apparently removed at surgery.
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NEW YORK  - Previous reports have shown  that obesity increases a woman's risk of developing breast  cancer -- and now new research indicates that obesity continues  to have a negative effect once breast cancer occurs.
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People who are prone to kidney stones should limit their caffeine intake, new research suggests. When investigators gave people with a history of kidney stones
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NEW YORK  - Extremely obese adults in need of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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Overweight and obese older women have an increased risk of leukemia, says a University of Minnesota study. It found that older women who are overweight or obese could be more than twice as likely as normal
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Previous reports have shown that obesity increases a woman's risk of developing breast cancer -- and now new research indicates that obesity continues to have a negative effect once breast cancer occurs.
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NEW YORK  - A high body mass index (BMI) in middle-aged men is associated with an increased likelihood of having a stroke over the next two or three decades -- even after taking into account other risk factors such as high blood pressure
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Extremely obese adults in need  of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ  than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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Obese women face a greater risk of colorectal cancer than obese men, says a Stony Brook University study presented Nov. 1 at the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity increases the risk of developing kidney cancer, patients with greater body mass index (BMI) seem to have less aggressive disease, according to researchers. BMI, the ratio of weight to height, is a common means of estimating whether someone is overweight or underweight.
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Researchers find a strong association between body mass index and a variety of cancers.