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STEPHANIE MORENO, referring to her husband, Joseph Alvarado Delgado, who went from weighing 330 pounds to weighing 280 in a year after joining an indoor soccer league in Dallas for men with a body ...

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YEAR AFTER YEAR, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse practitioner about losing weight. “We tried exercise,” like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled.

Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

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Ultrasound-derived VAT demonstrated better predictive ability than BMI and waist circumference in hepato-metabolic assessment in MASLD.