Sentences with phrase «obese patients into»

That is why the National Obesity Forum is seeking to reform the QOF to reward GPs who guide overweight and obese patients into clinically proven weight - management programmes.

Not exact matches

Since 2009 they have performed surgery on three obese patients to implant electrodes that emit rhythmic electric shocks into the hypothalamus.

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 %).

Gastric bypass surgery can put early diabetes into remission in obese patients, sometimes within a few days.

«It's too early to tell, but if this translates into less heart failure, heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths, then this could mean that morbidly obese patients who have bariatric surgery obtain a cardiovascular risk comparable to a normal weight population.»

As a doctor of physical therapy, gut health provides insight into why my patients (especially overweight or obese patients) develop osteoarthritis in non-weight-bearing joints like the wrist, by pointing to a problem with systemic inflammation.

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.

In rodents, ketogenic diets reduce reactive oxygen species in the brain34 and reduce central inflammation and reactive oxygen species in a model of multiple sclerosis.35 Two clinical papers have found that ketogenic diet feeding of 12 weeks to 6 months reduced signs of liver inflammation in obese patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (in addition to improving various other physiological and biochemical variables).36, 37 Unfortunately, basic research into non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has been hampered by species differences between mice and humans in their hepatic reaction to ketogenic diets.38