Search Tag: obese

Cardiology Management

2025 10 Jul

A new cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis evaluated how the European Association for the Study of Obesity’s (EASO) recently introduced framework reclassifies obesity levels and examined mortality risk among those newly identified as having obesity under this framework.   The study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine , found that1Read more

ICU Management

2019 23 Jan

Limited data are available assessing vancomycin concentrations in obese critically ill patients. Several physiologic changes in obesity affect antimicrobial pharmacokinetics. For example, the volume of distribution in obese patients is greater due to increased lean body mass and adipose tissue. Drug clearance may also be further enhanced due t1Read more