Obesity reduces odds of going home after stroke
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NEW YORK  - Obese individuals who suffer a stroke are significantly less likely to be discharged home and tend to stay in the hospital longer than lean individuals who suffer a stroke, researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles have observed.
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Patients can develop  potentially disabling neurological complications after gastric  bypass surgery performed to treat morbid obesity, most likely  due to deficiencies in certain nutrients, a new study shows.
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MONDAY, March 12  (HealthDay News) -- Obese patients who undergo weight-loss surgeries such as gastric bypass can develop a rare but serious brain condition linked to vitamin deficiency, a new study warns.
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Obesity surgery helps patients do more than shed weight &#151; it often cures their diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, researchers say.
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NEW YORK  - The "obesity paradox" lives on: In a look-back at a group of adults with suspected or known coronary artery disease, underweight adults had an increased risk of death, whereas overweight and obese adults had a lower risk of death, compared with normal-weight adults.
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Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-age man will have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds. The researchers followed more than 7,400 men aged 47 to 55 for 28 years and
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Fast walking exercises during rehabilitation help stroke survivors improve their mobility, says a small study in the current issue of Stroke.
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NEW YORK  - When it comes to walking as  part of stroke rehabilitation, faster is better, according to  results of a small study.
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Obesity is considered a major public-health problem, but many scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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WEDNESDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- In what doctors admit is a paradox, new European research shows that obese patients have half the risk of dying after a heart attack compared with normal-weight patients.
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Cape Town - It is not only obese men in developed countries who fall prey to heart disease due to stress. Nowadays, even women and children run the risk of dying from heart failure or a stroke.
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota - A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering on Wednesday from obesity surgery.
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NEW YORK  - It seems that the association between body mass index (BMI) and high blood pressure or hypertension has decreased since 1989, researchers say. The finding suggests that obesity may not have as much of an impact on heart-related disease as previously thought.
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&#39;Physical activity reduces the effects of being overweight, but it&#39;s far from removing all the increased risk associated with obesity.
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Weight-loss surgery for severe obesity may carry the risk of damage to the network of nerves that runs throughout the body, researchers reported Thursday.
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Oct. 28, 2004 -- Being overweight after age 40 could double a man&#39;s stroke risk, a new study shows. It&#39;s more evidence that obesity is a major -- but modifiable -- risk factor for numerous chronic health problems
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People gearing up for an indulgent holiday feast may want to make time for some pre-meal exercise. A small study out Monday suggests that a long walk before a fatty meal can lessen the effects of high fat intake on blood vessel function.