Sentences with phrase «group of obese patients»

(side note: I did find this recent study on a small group of obese patients following a very low calorie ketogenic diet over a period of 2 years.

The team learned that the cells from the group of obese patients suffering from type 2 diabetes had been reprogrammed and therefore did not function like normal, healthy fat cells.

Not exact matches

«Cancer patients who are obese and diabetic are an already more vulnerable group of individuals when it comes to surgery, as they have an increased risk of developing complications both during and after surgery.

Both groups of animals were equivalent to 55 - to 60 - year - old morbidly obese patients with uncontrolled diabetes, the most difficult population to treat.

Egg recipients, however, were of varying body weights, and divided into four groups: lean with BMI below 20 kg / m2 (1458 patients, 15.2 %), normal with BMI 20 - 24.9 kg / m2 (5706 patients, 59.5 %), overweight with BMI 25 - 29.9 kg / m2 (1770 patients, 18.5 %), and obese with BMI > = 30 kg / m2 (653 patients, 6.8 %).

Concentrations of hs - TnI were compared between 74 morbidly obese patients who had a type of bariatric surgery called Roux - en - Y gastric bypass, 62 morbidly obese patients who exercised and restricted their calorie intake, and a control group of 30 people with normal weight.

The Inventory of Nocturnal Eating, a self - report questionnaire addressing nocturnal eating and sleep disturbance, was administered to out - patients (N = 126) and in - patients (N = 24) with eating disorders, obese subjects (N = 126) in a trial of an anorexic agent, depressed subjects (N = 207) in an antidepressant trial, and an unselected group (N = 217) of college students.

The company recently announced that in one trial of 505 obese people with type 2 diabetes, 45 % of patients taking Contrave32 lost at least 5 % of their body weight compared to patients in a placebo group; only 19 % of the placebo group lost at least 5 % of their body weight.

Thus, replacement with timed - released T3 preparations to normalize the reduced intracellular T3 levels is appropriate in such patients despite so - called «normal» levels while, on the contrary, T4 - only preparations do not address the physiologic abnormalities of such patients and should be considered inappropriate replacement for obese patients or those with insulin resistance, leptin resistance, or diabetes, as they do not address the physiologic abnormalities in this group.

I came across and old study from a VA hospital in the early 1970s where a group of very obese patients were fasted for 60 days to put them into ketosis and then given insulin to drop their blood glucose levels in order to ascertain whether they would experience the side effects of hypoglycemia.

A group in Bahrain conducted a pilot study of 13 obese patients and found positive effects (65).