Obesity 'doubles sight-loss risk'
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Obese people have double the risk of losing their sight, a report has warned.
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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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Obese people face a higher risk of passing out &#151; or worse &#151; during heat waves, some health experts say.
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Two new studies give one more reason to eat a diet rich in fish: prevention of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in old age.
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Life & style: A government study says modern life has Britain sleepwalking towards an obesity crisis.
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NEW YORK  - People with diabetes are prone to develop damage to their retinas, but tight control of blood pressure slows the progression of this complication and helps prevent vision loss, UK researchers report.
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Rising rates of obesity will lead to dramatic increases in the number of people with Alzheimer's disease, experts have predicted.
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British scientists have found a link which could explain why obese people are up to twice as likely to have asthma, they said Tuesday.
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The rise in obesity may be going hand-in-hand with increases in severe gum disease, research suggests.
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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, US researchers have reported. A second
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Obesity can double the risk of several  cancers, according to a study published on Friday that for the  first time also links being overweight with a number of less  common forms of the disease.
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Heavy computer users who stare at a computer monitor for several hours a day might be at an increased risk of developing glaucoma, a disease that can cause blindness, according to the findings of a Japanese study published in the Journal of Epidemiology
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Too much abdominal fat in middle age may increase the risk of disability in later years, according to new study findings presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in Las Vegas.
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THE FINDINGS: Being overweight or obese could more than double an older woman's risk of getting acute myelogenous leukemia, one of the deadliest leukemias, according to University of Minnesota researchers.
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Elderly people who are obese appear  to have a lower risk of falling ill with tuberculosis compared  to those who are underweight or of average weight, according to  an extensive geriatric study in Hong Kong.
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Obesity nearly doubles the risk that an otherwise healthy middle-aged man will eventually have a stroke, a long-running Swedish study finds.