Dr Will Yancy

Improving health at Duke Lifestyle and Weight Management Center with our comprehensive, multidisciplinary outpatient services.

[Dr Will Yancy @DrWillYancy]

@DukeSurgery Last year's conference was so well attended with such great discussion and questions from the audience that we doubled the content for this year. We can't wait to hear this year's speakers!

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#CME Opportunity: Join us for "Diverse Pathways for Obesity: Ways to Support a Patient's Journey," to learn more about managing obesity through diet, psychology, medication, and surgical options for adult and pediatric patients. Learn more and register: https://t.co/l0LjuLKbYy.

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Nice explanation by Dr. Clowse of why more research is critical before we use hydroxychloroquine widely for COVID. https://t.co/KJb9eV377h

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Obesity, diabetes and COVID-19: here's some info to help understand the connections. https://t.co/dXwXbgKpym

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Would love to be able to code a diagnosis besides "obesity due to excess calories" for all of my patient visits. It's oversimplified, insulting and, for many, inaccurate. Here's an idea headed in the right direction. https://t.co/s6m4kXCeFD

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How could sleep and weight be connected? "...several brain regions involved in regulating sleep and wake cycles also are involved in regulating fasting and feeding, and these neural systems are influenced by the same hormones and neurotransmitters." https://t.co/7Ie4HvqG0a

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Later bedtime was associated with #obesity in children. I see this commonly in adult patients, too. Our patients at Duke Diet and Fitness often cite the early to bed, early to rise schedule as helpful. https://t.co/kaZzdfPILt

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Fascinating how controversy over the relationship between red meat intake and health heightens with each new research article. Science is supposed to get closer to the truth over time. https://t.co/aIvsGgaOnf

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This goes hand in hand with the lack of nutrition education in medical training.

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Medical Students Around the World Poorly Trained in Nutrition. The title of the article says it all. It's time for medical schools and MDs who use #nutrition therapy to step it up! https://t.co/mLRJ48AN3O

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@AnnChildersMD @drjasonfung So both strategies worked at improving A1C, but the weight management strategy had additional benefits. A non- inferiority design is just a more rigorous way of showing that both treatments might work similarly, at least for one outcome (A1C).

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@AnnChildersMD @drjasonfung Dr Childers, sorry for the statistical terminology. Since we were reducing diabetes medicines during weight loss in the weight management arm, we speculated that A1C would not go down more than in the medication intensification arm but would instead go down a similar amount.

[Dr Will Yancy @DrWillYancy]

Thanks, Jason. Most fun study I have done because several other docs were involved and saw first-hand (along with the patients) how powerful nutrition therapy can be for diabetes.

[Dr. Jason Fung @drjasonfung]

More trial evidence that low carbohydrate approach is more powerful than drugs. https://t.co/YJ82NHpbP0

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@MeganMcVay1 @VoilsCorrine @drgarybennett Megan, you are too kind. It all starts with a good research question and you had a fantastic one. So glad you pursued it. Your work will contribute greatly to obesity management.

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Kudos to these authors for highlighting a poorly understood health problem seen in obesity medicine, lipedema. It's difficult to treat but an alert obesity specialist can help. https://t.co/RoKwCi11f4

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Kudos to James Corden for calling out Bill Maher for his "fat-shaming" segment, and still making us laugh while doing it. https://t.co/6T2dYEk8EV

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America's obesity epidemic may mean some cancers are striking sooner. More evidence that we need to treat obesity like the disease it is and make lowering insulin and insulin resistance a goal. https://t.co/QSPtlTEnPZ via @medical_xpress

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And special thanks to the debaters who provided great entertainment, and even more importantly, to our patient panel whose stories were inspiring and so insightful into the hurdles, biases and other difficulties they face.

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Grateful for Matt Roe, Sarah Armstrong, and many others who organized and spoke at yesterday's fantastic (and hopefully annual) Transforming #Obesity Research Consortium @DukeHealth.

[Sarah Armstrong @drsarah4kids]

Joseph Rogers, CMO for @DukeHealth talking at the Transforming Obesity Research conference on a community-patient-clinician shared approach. #tor @DrCharleneWong @asheleycs @DukeCHDI @Duke_Childrens @DukeVoices