NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research has shown that obese men have lower rates of prostate cancer than thinner men, but a new study suggests that this does not reflect an actual lower risk, but a ...

Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are chronic, immune-mediated inflammatory diseases associated with several shared common comorbidities, of which obesity is one of the most prevalent. A complex ...

In psoriatic arthritis, high BMI and smoking raise disease activity, while weight-focused lifestyle changes improve treat-to-target odds at one year. The findings, drawn from newly diagnosed patients ...

University of Adelaide research shows that the results of the most widely used test for prostate cancer may be affected by obesity. With increasing prevalence of obesity in high-income countries, this ...

Radical perineal prostatectomy (RPP) has been proposed as a preferable approach to prostatectomy in obese men. [44,45] Yang et al. [44] examined outcomes after RPP among 71 severely obese patients ...

Weight loss is associated with sustained improvement of disease activity and cardiovascular (CV) risk factors in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and obesity, according to study results ...

Hemodilution from increased circulating plasma volumes could explain why obese men with prostate cancer have lower serum PSA levels than non-obese men with the malignancy, according to researchers. A ...