Diuretics (sometimes called “water pills”) have long been used by people hoping to lose a few pounds, but are they truly an effective supplement for weight loss? With the rise in popularity of weight ...

When Heather Jahn was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, she turned to bariatric surgery. Here, she shares ...

Weight Loss is among the most desired things for many people across the world. While many undertake the proper, guided way to lose weight with diet control and exercise, a lot of people go through ...

Then there’s physical activity: Many of the symptoms of lupus, such as joint pain, fatigue, and depression, may make patients ...

Thiazide diuretics and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors typically cause a transient loss of 1 2 kg body weight in the first 6 8 weeks of therapy secondary to salt and water diuresis.

A review of 10 studies on gout and weight loss found that losing 7.7 pounds ... and limiting alcohol and diuretics. In particular, the study found that excess adiposity, or fat stores, was ...

Diuretics are important therapeutic tools. First, they effectively reduce blood pressure and have been shown in numerous hypertension clinical trials to reduce both cardiovascular and ...

A recent study by researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Metamor Institute suggests that metabolic ...

Researchers find metabolic surgery lowers heart failure risk factors, offering promising insights for heart health.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers at the Metamor Institute, along with colleagues from Our Lady of the Lake and LSU Health-New Orleans, have recently determined that metabolic surgery ...

Furthermore, the weight loss was accompanied by a 65 percent decrease in diuretic use at 24 months after surgery. “With the high incidence of heart failure and obesity in South Louisiana ongoing ...