Obesity Meet

  Obesity linked to higher rate of knee replacement revisions Australians undergoing a knee replacement operation are at a higher risk of needing further surgery if they're obese. Researchers from The University of Queensland Rural Clinical School (UQRCS) examined the association between  obesity  and unsuccessful  knee  replacements requiring a revision operation in six years of data from the Australian Orthopedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry. Lead investigator and orthopedic surgeon, UQRCS's Dr. Chris Wall, said the most common reasons for revision surgery were infection, implant loosening, instability, and pain. "We found that obese patients had a higher rate of revision surgery overall, and a higher rate of revision for infection specifically, when compared to non-obese patients," Dr. Wall said. "Morbidly obese patients also had a higher rate of revision for implant loosening." Thirty-one percent of Australian adults are obese which is

    Will  Toxic cooking fumes cause complications in some pregnant women !! Exposure to indoor household pollution has been linked to poor pregnancy outcomes for women in low- and middle-income countries in a new study. Researchers from King's Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine explored the link between the rate of eclampsia (a serious condition during pregnancy where high blood pressure results in life-threatening seizures) and the number of deaths caused by indoor household pollution. Indoor household pollution is more commonly seen in low- and middle-income countries because of cooking and heating with solid fuels, such as wood and charcoal, and has been proven to increase the risk of adverse birth outcomes, including placental hypoxia (when the fetus does not get enough oxygen). The researchers evaluated more than 2,690 cases of eclampsia in Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and found a significant correlation between deaths due to in

                     Obesity and Cancer Is obesity a cause for  cancer? Is that mean more cells equal more chances to cancer!!! Worldwide 1.1 billion people are currently estimated to be overweight, at least 300 million of them obese. Worldwide, cancer affects roughly 22 million persons who are living with the condition. This makes it a major public health problem. The prevalence of excess body weight and obesity is rapidly increasing worldwide. Apart from several conditions like diabetes, heart disease, liver and gall bladder disorders, cancers have also been associated with obesity. There is sufficient evidence to link certain forms of cancers to obesity. Association between cancers and obesity The International Agency for Research on Cancer has assessed the association between cancers and obesity. Their focus was on certain cancers like cancers of the colon, female breast (especially in women who have achieved menopause), endometrial or womb cancers, kidney and adenocarcinoma of th