Asians misdiagnosed by standard obesity measure, experts say
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Health problems related to obesity are hitting Asians harder than other ethnic groups because doctors using a one-size-fits-all diagnosis fail to pick it up, experts have said.
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Many readers may be surprised by the following statistics - 200 million people in China are over-weight, 160 million suffer from high blood pressure, 20 million from diabetes and over 60 million have developed obesity.
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Obesity specialists say society must stop seeing the condition as an individual's "failing" and act to help people live more healthily.
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A widely reported study released earlier this year overstated the increase in obesity-related U.S. deaths by about 35,000, a U.S. government health agency said on Tuesday in admitting the miscalculation.
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Being overweight may not kill you, but  it could lead to obesity, U.S. health experts cautioned on  Wednesday in response to research suggesting that being a bit  heavy does not raise the risk of death.
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Concern over growing levels of obesity has sparked a lively debate among food sector professionals and health experts about how to halt a trend that is medically and economically harmful.
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Obesity -- especially abdominal obesity -- is associated with a poor outlook for patients with established cardiovascular disease, results of a recent study indicate.
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LAS VEGAS - Obesity researchers from around the world went home last weekend with new data to chew on. Several studies, released last week at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study
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A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters' weight.
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Americans are beginning to realize  that childhood obesity is a real problem and are even starting  to do something about it, but there is no way to tell what  actually works, a panel of experts said on Wednesday.
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Apparently healthy obese people are suffering silent heart damage that sets the stage for serious cardiac problems, a new Australian study finds.
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US health officials from the CDC say that obesity is not killing as many people as first thought. They say the CDC will ask JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) to alter the figures it published in a study published last March.
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A widely reported study  released earlier this year overstated the increase in obesity-related U.S. deaths by about 35,000, a the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in admitting the miscalculation.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday they had overestimated in a high-profile study the number of Americans dying from being overweight.
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Developing countries, especially in  Asia, must promote healthy lifestyles from childhood to halt  rising obesity and heart disease rates, medical experts said on  Thursday.
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Obese men and women suffer more commonly from a host of potentially deadly and debilitating conditions than people with more slender builds, according to researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
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Those patients also showed healthier cholesterol levels and glucose tolerance. Most of the fat loss was from the waistline. Metabolic Pharmaceuticals Ltd of Australia did the study.