Obese Heart Failure Patients Fare Better Than Lean
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity is usually  linked to detrimental health consequences, new research  indicates that overweight people with heart failure have a  lower mortality risk than those of normal weight.
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Very obese people are as unhealthy, and probably as likely to die, as patients with heart failure, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
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Extremely obese people suffering from depression or anxiety tend to lose less weight after obesity surgery than mentally healthy people, researchers reported Thursday in a study that suggests such patients could benefit from treatment beforehand.
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Obesity surgery has helped many patients lose weight and improve their health, a panel of experts told US regulators Thursday, but they added there was not enough data on how well it has worked for elderly patients covered
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Overweight and obese people get less  out of resistance training than leaner people do, researchers  said on Friday in a study that suggests the overweight may have  to try harder to get results.
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Obese people spend more time sitting than leaner persons, who tend to fidget and move more and in the process burn more calories, according to a US study released.
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NEW YORK  - People with advanced heart  failure and who also have diabetes that requires insulin  treatment have about a fourfold greater mortality rate than  heart failure patients who don't take insulin, researchers  report.
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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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Extremely obese people suffering from depression or anxiety tend to lose less weight after obesity surgery than mentally healthy people, researchers reported Thursday in a study that suggests such patients could benefit treatment beforehand.
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Obese patients who are treated  for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are more likely  to have a better outcome if the underlying abnormalities caused  by excessive fat tissue are corrected first, according to a  review published in the medical journal Hepatology.
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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.
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NEW YORK  - While the treatment of people with diabetes who suffer a heart attack has improved, along with subsequent survival rates, mortality is still higher than in non-diabetics, a study shows.
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Overweight people have a tendency to sit, while lean ones have trouble holding still, and the difference in activity levels may be inborn, researchers suggest.
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Among men with symptoms of  heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than  their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests.
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.Exercise only is not enough to reduce the death risk associated with being obese, a study of over 116,000 female nurses has revealed.
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Overweight people have a tendency to sit, while lean ones have trouble holding still, researchers are reporting.
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NEW YORK  - Quite often, people with heart   failure have some degree of blockage of the coronary arteries.   In such cases, those who undergo surgery to clear to arteries   have markedly better survival than those treated with   medication, researchers from Canada report.