All Articles on Obesity
Built environment doesn’t play expected role in weight gainNew research suggests fast food and other aspects of built environments don’t affect weight, contrary to earlier findings.
Can you lose and maintain weight by eating mindfully?Robin Garcia and David Arterburn’s personal and professional paths converge in a pilot project.
We decreased people’s sedentary time—by an hour a dayChanging behavior isn’t easy, but Dr. Dori Rosenberg helped older people to stand and walk more.
Weight loss lasts long after bariatric surgeryDiverse Kaiser Permanente patients maintained weight better after gastric bypass than after sleeve gastrectomy.
Best weight-loss surgery for diabetes and severe obesity?Watch video on latest results from PCORnet Bariatric Study. (Spoiler alert: Bypass, not sleeve.)
More operations follow gastric bypass than gastric sleeveLarge, long-term study of post-op safety of weight-loss surgery includes Dr. Arterburn and University of Pittsburgh researchers.
Watch our new video, ‘Research for the rest of us’Drs. Neely Williams and David Arterburn talk about how important patient involvement is to the PCORnet Bariatric Study.
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