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BMI criteria for obesity surgery should be lowered, researchers suggest

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that the existing body mass index criteria for obesity surgery often excludes a group of obese patients at risk of cardiovascular disease.

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1. BMI criteria for obesity surgery should be lowered, UT Southwestern researcher suggests
   12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
   UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that the existing body mass index criteria for obesity surgery often excludes a group of obese patients at risk of cardiovascular disease.
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2. BMI criteria for obesity surgery should be lowered, UT Southwestern researchers suggest
   12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
   UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that the existing body mass index criteria for obesity surgery often excludes a group of obese patients at risk of cardiovascular disease.
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3. A black and white look at breast cancer mortality
   02-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers suggest a reason for racial disparity in breast cancer survival rates. African and African American women are much less likely to survive breast cancer surgery than their white counterparts and far more likely to get the disease before the menopause. Previous research suggests that those who undergo surgery for the disease before the menopause are more prone to relapse.
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4. Kidney research points to ways to more effectively use organs
   10-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Several new studies suggest how transplant surgeons can make more effective use of kidneys from deceased donors -- even those that are at the outer limits of acceptance criteria -- according to researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
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5. Australian researchers develop treatment to treat obesity
   11-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A team of Australian researchers have developed a novel way to control the extreme weight loss, common in late-stage cancer, which often speeds death. The findings published today in Nature Medicine suggest it may soon be possible to prevent this condition, giving people the strength to survive treatment and improve their chances of recovery.
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6. Mom's obesity during conception phase may set the stage for offspring's obesity risk
   01-03-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers have examined whether fetal exposure to gestational obesity leads to a self-reinforcing viscious cycle of excessive weight gain and body fat which passes from mother to child. The results of a new study suggest they do.
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7. Study finds obese patients fair better than lean patients when hospitalized for acute heart failure
   01-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
   UCLA researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. The finding offers more insight into an observed phenomenon in chronic heart failure called the "obesity paradox."
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8. Children who sleep more weigh less
   02-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Using data from a nationally representative survey, researchers found that children who slept more had lower BMI measures and were less likely to be overweight than children who slept less. The study followed 2,281 children ages 3 to 12 for five years and found that an additional hour of sleep reduced the likelihood that a young child would be overweight from 36 to 30 percent. These findings may inform policy efforts to reduce childhood obesity.
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9. U of M discovers protein linked to elevated BMI in people of American Indian and Mexican ancestry
   02-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
   University of Minnesota researchers have discovered a variant of a common blood protein, apolipoprotein C1, in people of American Indian and Mexican ancestry that is linked to elevated body mass index (BMI), obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
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10. Childhood obesity may contribute to earlier puberty for girls
    03-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
    Researchers at U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital say increasing rates of childhood obesity and overweight in the United States may be contributing to an earlier onset of puberty in girls. In a study published this month in Pediatrics, they found that higher body mass index (BMI) score in girls as young as age 3, and large increases in BMI between 3 years of age and first grade are associated with earlier puberty.
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