Sentences with phrase «obese patients with»

The current study examined the psychometric properties of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) in obese patients with binge eating disorder (BED) and explored its association with measures of eating disorder and associated psychopathology.

Behavioral weight loss treatment (BWL) and guided self - help based on cognitive behavior therapy (CBTgsh) have both resulted in short - term reductions in binge eating in obese patients with BED.

Effect of a low - carbohydrate diet on appetite, blood glucose levels, and insulin resistance in obese patients with type 2 diabetes

Effects on postprandial insulinemia and glycemia in obese patients with NIDDM

«Alpha - Lipoid acid reduces body weight and regulates triglycerides in obese patients with diabetes mellitus.»

Another study from 2005 shows that low - carb diets decrease insulin and improve insulin resistance in obese patients with type 2 diabetes.

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

In one study when researchers in Czechoslovakia treated 60 obese patients with MCT oil they concluded that MCTs offered a number of benefits, stating, «Administration of... medium - chain fatty acids can... improve the long - term success of diet therapy of obese patients.»

Studies of bariatric surgery and weight loss have conclusively shown that type 2 diabetes is reversible and therefore the beta function can be recovered even in massively obese patients with decades of disease.

Fulghesu et al found that obese patients with PCOS did not respond to doses under 3 grams / day.

In 2005, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the article «Effect of a Low - Carbohydrate Diet on Appetite, Blood Glucose Levels, and Insulin Resistance in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes» showed that 2 weeks of a very low carbohydrate diet with no caloric restrictions reduced appetite and body weight.

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that obese patients with type - 2 diabetes who went keto for just two weeks improved insulin sensitivity by 75 %.

Another article from 2004 measured changes in cholesterol levels in 83 obese patients with known high cholesterol and high glucose.

Researchers from New Zealand report that morbidity following liver transplant is highest among obese patients with diabetes, but these risk factors do not influence post-transplant survival.

In addition to Dr. Aminian, study authors of the abstract entitled, «A Nationwide Safety Analysis of Bariatric Surgery in Nonmorbidly Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes,» include John Kirwan, PhD; Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD; Stacy Brethauer, MD; and Philip Schauer, MD, all from Cleveland Clinic.

Recent studies have shown a similar survival benefit for obese patients with colorectal or kidney cancer.

Obese patients with metastatic melanoma who are treated with targeted or immune therapies live significantly longer than those with a normal body mass index (BMI), investigators report in a study published in Lancet Oncology of 1,918 patients in six independent clinical cohorts.

«We found that, in obese patients with asthma, the risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for asthma exacerbations decreased by half in the two years after bariatric surgery,» says Kohei Hasegawa, MD, MPH, MGH Department of Emergency Medicine, the lead author of the study.

A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators suggests that bariatric surgery can significantly reduce the risk of asthma attacks — also called exacerbations — in obese patients with asthma.

Using available databases reflecting the utilization of health services in California, Florida and Nebraska — all three of which give access to deidentified information on individual patients — the research team identified 2,261 obese patients with asthma who underwent bariatric surgery from 2007 to 2009 and for whom information covering the two years before and after their surgery was available.

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

Thus in this study, the authors compared RYGB to an intensive lifestyle and medical intervention (ILMI) for type 2 diabetes, including among only mildly obese patients with a BMI < 35 kg / m2 (above 30 kg / m2 is considered obese, so 30 - 35 BMI is the least severe obesity category among white people).

The debate will continue in the morbidly obese patients with BMI over 40, and the super obese with a BMI over 50, regarding what steps can and should be taken to lower the risks before these elective surgical procedures.»

Case in point: I work with a functional med doc who, upon being asked by an obese patient with metabolic syndrome whether she should drink a can of diet pop or regular pop (because she absolutely had to have just one a day), the doc strongly recommeded the regular pop.

Not exact matches

However, seriously underweight anorexic patients who see themselves as obese are not treated with weight - reducing liposuction by physicians who go along with their irrational belief.

Obese patients were accordingly advised to replace fats and sweets with a more prudent dietary pattern characterized by a high intake of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, poultry, and fish (70, 71).

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

Some 15 years ago, during a fellowship at New York Medical College, he observed morbidly obese patients undergo open bariatric surgery — an old - school Roux - en - Y, done with giant incisions and often yielding horrendous complications.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

The same thing happened with the next three obese diabetic patients.

To qualify, patients must be an acceptable surgical risk and be defined as either severely obese with a BMI of 40 or greater or have a BMI of 35 or greater with at least one related condition: diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity - related cardiomyopathy or heart muscle disease or severe joint disease.

The Northwestern study reported patients with eczema had 54 percent higher odds of being morbidly obese, 48 percent higher odds of hypertension, up to 93 percent higher odds of having pre-diabetes and up to 42 percent higher odds of having diabetes.

The review found that 19.3 percent of the patients diagnosed with a depressive disorder reported lower back pain, as did 16.75 percent of patients diagnosed as obese (a body mass index, or BMI, > 30kg / m ²), 16.53 percent of the patients diagnosed with nicotine dependence, and 14.66 percent with reported alcohol abuse.

The team found that obese people with kidney cancer had a 53 % lower risk of dying from renal - cell carcinoma than patients who were normal weight2.

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 %).

«Our study emphasizes the importance of individualized therapy strategies and lifestyle interventions in order to prevent structural knee joint degeneration as early as possible in obese and overweight patients at risk for osteoarthritis or with symptomatic osteoarthritis,» Dr. Gersing said.

The results suggest that the risk of revision surgery and most other complications of shoulder arthroplasty increases along with BMI in obese patients.

«The question is what underlying mechanism causes this advantage in obese men, and can we take advantage of it to improve outcomes in patients with melanoma?»

Weight loss is the commonly recommended strategy for all obese and overweight patients with NAFLD.

The treated rodents were not only fatter but also suffered elevated levels of fasting insulin, and alterations in genes related to liver regeneration and detoxification — effects consistent with metabolic disorders in obese patients.

Although we often associate fatty liver disease with obese patients, these results suggest that possible signs of liver disease secondary to NAFLD in lean patients should be taken very seriously,» said Dr. Angulo.

«The ease with which this weight loss was achieved in mice — even with continued caloric binging — is in stark contrast to the Herculean difficulties morbidly obese patients experience trying to preserve weight loss through dietary restraint,» adds Dr. Gendler.

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 average patient age was 65.5 years old, and 61 percent of patients were obese with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 33 kg / m ².

«We have an application with the NIH [National Institutes of Health] to test this in obese patients that exhibit bingelike behavior.»

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.

«While there is no single ideal bariatric procedure that can be applied to all severely obese patients, we have generally recommended the duodenal switch for those with a BMI greater than 50,» said study author Vivek Prachand, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Chicago.

As demonstrated by a recent metaanalysis of prospective cohort studies even obese men and women with normal cardiometabolic clustering had a 4-fold higher relative risk of developing T2DM, although this risk was only half of that of metabolically unhealthy obese patients regardless of sex differences in the progression toward T2DM (40).

For patients with stage II or stage III colon cancer, the difference in long - term survival for leaner patients compared to those with a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or greater — which physicians refer to as «very obese» — was comparable to the difference between those who had surgery followed by chemotherapy and those who had only surgery.

Among men who received treatment for the potentially deadly cancer, obese patients lived an average of 47 percent longer than those with a healthy body weight, researchers found.