A statement signed by the hospital’s Assistant Director Information, Hauwa Muhammed, said the operation was carried out on the patient (name withheld) who weighed 156kg
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The Country Director of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Dr Michael Ojo, says many women in Nigeria are overweight and obese or hypertensive.
The research results, which were revealed at the ongoing annual conference of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists being held in San Francisco, indicate that children, who are diagnosed with obesity, may not require higher doses of pain-relieving opioid as obese adults often do.
Obesity has been strongly related to breast cancer risk, but previous studies examining whether weight loss might reduce postmenopausal women’s risk resulted in mixed results.
Consumption of zero-calorie artificial sweeteners has increased dramatically in recent decades as people are more aware of the health consequences of eating too much sugar.
The study, led by the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and the School of Food Science and Nutrition, involved 1,615 adults in Britain aging from 19 to 65.
Ulikinfo said that overweight children were likely to stay obesed into adulthood and more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease at young age
He noted that the new analysis, published in the US journal, JAMA Pediatrics, included 16 years’ worth of data from more than 22,000 young adults in the Growing Up Today Study
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He said although kidney cancer could be hereditary, persons who often engaged in excessive smoking put themselves at risk of developing the condition
Karsten Kaltoft had worked for 15 years as a childminder, looking after children in his home in Billund, western Denmark, before he lost his job in 2010
Ajobo, who is the Head of Dietetic Department, University College Hospital, Ibadan, gave the warning while making a presentation at a quarterly seminar, organised by the department