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Study suggests severe obesity blunts antibody response to COVID-19 vaccines

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF OBESITY New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to COVID-19 vaccination compared to those with normal weight. The study is by Professor Volkan...

A new way to treat severe obesity
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A new way to treat severe obesity

by Mathieu-Robert Sauvé,  University of Montreal Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research could pave the way for the treatment of early morbid familial obesity, a disease that affects four to six percent of people suffering from early severe obesity. Co-authored by Michel Bouvier and Patricia René of UdeM’s Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), with Université Laval colleagues...