by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 24, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
A retrospective cohort study just published in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism investigated the independent contributions of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) reduction and weight loss to clinical outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) treated with antidiabetic...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 23, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
The Lancet standing commission on dementia just published: Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission. (It’s available for free but you have to create an account.) It’s an article on the preventability of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 1, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
An abstract presented in Madrid at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) suggests that when obese people lose weight, they may be less likely to develop a serious infection. That is particularly true for individuals with...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 7, 2024 | Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Obesity & Wound Care
Anecdotal reports have suggested that the use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) might be associated with a rare cause of sudden blindness called non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). In JAMA Ophthalmology, authors...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 18, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings, Nutrition & Wound Healing, Obesity & Wound Care
A 5:2 Intermittent Fasting Meal Replacement Diet and Glycemic Control for Adults With Diabetes: The EARLY Randomized Clinical Trial | Diabetes and Endocrinology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network A study published open access in JAMA suggests that an intermittent...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 27, 2024 | Nutrition & Wound Healing, Obesity & Wound Care
In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Tirzepatide for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Obesity, Tirzepatide (the medication in the weight-loss drug Zepbound and also the diabetes treatment Mounjaro), appeared to reduce the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2024 | Dr. Marissa Carter, Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
Check out the live interview that Dr. Marissa Carter and I did about why patients with chronic wounds are so sick! This project began a few years ago when I was testing the feasibility of a quality measure that could be reported by wound care practitioners as part of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 8, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
If you are attending the SAWC Spring 2024 Conference next week, come listen to Dr. Marissa Carter and I discuss, “Why are all My Chronic Wound Patients so SICK?” The session is Wednesday May 15, from 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM Eastern, in Crystal K. In the session, we...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 29, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
I worry a lot about the relationship between obesity and chronic wounds. Obesity is linked to diabetes and diabetic neuropathy. It causes a chronic inflammatory state, it often leads to lymphedema, and it is often associated with chronic leg dependency due to chair...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 9, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Obesity & Wound Care
Both scientific data and my own clinical experience tell me that the root cause of many chronic wound problems is obesity (and all the downstream health problems related to obesity such as diabetes, sleep apnea and edema). For decades I have been trying to figure out...
