Virginia A. Schad, PharmD, RPh

Researchers analyzed the relationship between metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and the risk for colon cancer.

Investigators assessed the associations between bariatric surgery and de novo alcohol-related outcomes.

Researchers evaluated the effects of statin use on cancer mortality in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Investigators examined the effects of certain antihyperglycemic drugs as treatment for NAFLD or NASH in patients with or without type 2 diabetes.

Investigators assessed the presence of unhealthy eating behaviors in adolescents with obesity undergoing bariatric surgery, with or without nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

In children with asthma, is excess weight linked to dysanapsis and PAI — and how do all 3 factors affect the risk of uncontrolled asthma?

Investigators reviewed the effects of the Elipse intragastric balloon on weight loss, waist circumference, metabolic profile, tolerability, and adverse events.

Investigators assessed the associations between maternal obesity, weight gain in pregnancy, and birth weight with risk for colorectal cancer in adult offspring.

Researchers compared bone health in patients with obesity following roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy.

Investigators assessed the relationship between passive smoking in children and adults with adult risk for fatty liver.

Researchers sought to develop and validate a high-sensitivity SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR procedure for testing stool specimens.

Researchers sought to characterize gut virome alterations in patients with obesity with or without type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Researchers proposed a nonsurgical approach with targeted colonic delivery of MCFAs, which induce EECs and neuronal activation leading to anorectic effects in adults with obesity.

Researchers investigated the underlying mechanisms responsible for insulin resistance in patients with obesity and NAFLD.

Researchers studied whether combining FMT with lifestyle modifications could enhance the engraftment of favorable microbiota in patients with obesity and T2DM.

Investigators assessed the prevalence and characteristics of painless chronic pancreatitis, which is often overlooked.

Metabolic syndrome may be useful in predicting future lung injury in a cohort of individuals who were exposed to particulate matter from the World Trade Center collapse.

Efforts to address obesity in the pediatric asthma population should continue with a specific focus on achieving improved baseline control and a better understanding of triggers.

This post hoc analysis is the first to suggest that evolocumab increases the apolipoprotein A1 remnant ratio following 12 weeks of treatment.

There is an opportunity to increase statin use by improving physician recognition of statin-eligible patients.

Investigators conducted a prespecified analyses to evaluate the extent to which icosapent ethyl decreases total ischemic events.

Higher consumption of dietary cholesterol is significantly associated with a higher risk for incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality among US adults.

Higher consumption of dietary cholesterol is significantly associated with a higher risk for incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality among US adults.

Researchers analyzed the causal relevance of lifelong differences in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol for ischemic stroke relative to that for coronary heart disease.

As increased free thyroxine and decreased thyrotropin have been shown to be related to an increased risk for atrial fibrillation (AF), researchers sought to determine the direct correlation.