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Obesity

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    PRESERVED-HF: Dapagliflozin improves physical limitations in patients with HFpEF

    September 14, 2021

    The SGLT2 inhibitor dapagliflozin boosted KCCQ scores and 6-minute walk distance in HFpEF patients in a 324-patient randomized trial.

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    ESC heart failure guideline to integrate bounty of new meds

    July 29, 2021

    It has a simple answer to a seemingly complex issue: how to merge the newly approved with mainstay drug therapies. And it conditionally okays meds in a group long without guideline-directed options.

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    More obese, diabetic, chronically ill kids hospitalized with COVID-19

    June 16, 2021

    Children with diabetes, obesity, and cardiac and circulatory congenital anomalies were more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 and to be severely ill while hospitalized, a new study finds.

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    Weight-related COVID-19 severity starts in normal BMI range, especially in young

    May 4, 2021

    Increases in BMI, beginning in normal ranges, show a linear link to severe COVID-19 outcomes, independent of obesity-related diseases in younger and Black patients.

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    Being overweight ups risk of severe COVID-19 in hospital

    April 29, 2021

    This research “adds to the known data on the associations between obesity and severe COVID-19 disease and extends these findings” to patients who are overweight and/or have diabetes.

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    High obesity rates in Southern states magnify COVID threats

    March 19, 2021

    At least 29 states have green-lighted obesity for inclusion in the first phases of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. That could overwhelm government efforts and heighten competition for scarce doses.

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    CDC data strengthen link between obesity and severe COVID

    March 9, 2021

    Progressively intensive management of COVID-19 might be needed for patients with more severe obesity.

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    Call to action on obesity amid COVID-19 pandemic

    March 9, 2021

    Hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide from COVID-19 could have been avoided if obesity rates were lower; call for people with obesity to be included in priority lists for COVID-19 vaccination.

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    BMI, age, and sex affect COVID-19 vaccine antibody response

    March 5, 2021

    Study finds that older and heavier men have lower antibody responses to the Pfizer mRNA vaccine than do younger, leaner, and female recipients.

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    Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages

    December 1, 2020

    More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.

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