Sentences with phrase «of obese participants»

Not only that, but 29 percent of obese participants and 16 percent of morbidly obese participants were also metabolically healthy.

After the initial test, 109 of the obese participants underwent a type of surgery that helps people lose weight.

Not exact matches

For example, national studies in the United States have found that more than one in four youth sport participants (26 % male and 27 % female) were overweight (17), and nearly half of youth (48 %) who were obese said they participated in sport (7).

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

We calculated BMI as [maternal weight at day 7 postpartum (in kg) / maternal height (in m2)-RSB- and categorized participants as normal / underweight, overweight, or obese on the basis of BMI < 25.0, 25.0 — 29.9, and 30.0, respectively (25).

Screening, random assignment, and follow - up of the study participants in the Swedish dietary and exercise behavior - modification intervention trial in lactating overweight and obese women.

Numbers of participants in nonobese [BMI (in kg / m2): < 30] and obese (BMI ≥ 30.0) groups, respectively, are as follows: timely OL (□; n = 102 and 34) and delayed OL (▪; n = 49 and 33)[P < 0.0001 within the nonobese BMI group and P = 0.001 within the obese BMI group (chi - square analysis); Breslow - Day test for homogeneity of the odds ratios (P = 0.6267), indicating that there was not a significant difference by BMI group in the association between delayed OL and excess neonatal weight loss].

The ratios of different microbes in the gut also differed between lean and obese participants at every stage of the study, the researchers said.

Obese participants saw only modest increases in the proportion of SCFA - producing microbes.

In this pilot study, 16 overweight and obese participants will be housed throughout the experiment in research facilities to ensure accurate assessments of calorie consumption and energy expenditure.

Approximately 25 percent of participants were overweight or obese.

This misreporting of energy intake varied among participants, and was greatest in obese men and women who underreported their intake by an average 25 percent and 41 percent (i.e., 716 and 856 Calories per - day respectively).

One third of the study participants were obese.

The researchers tested 50 participants aged 18 - 35, with body mass indexes (BMIs) ranging from 18 through to 51 — a BMI of 18 - 25 is considered healthy, 25 - 30 overweight, and over 30 obese.

He went on to comment on the effect for overweight and obese participants: «the effect of obesity on the risk of RA did not appear to be substantially different from that of overweight.

The 42 mildly obese study participants with poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes were, on average, 51 years of age and 62 percent were women.

In a study that included overweight and obese participants, those with diets with low glycemic index of dietary carbohydrate did not have improvements in insulin sensitivity, lipid levels, or systolic blood pressure, according to a study in the December 17 issue of JAMA.

All of the study participants — 27 of whom identified as Latino and 16 as African American — were obese and had at least one other metabolic health issue, such as high blood pressure or a marker of fatty liver.

In fact, we revealed that lean participants from the different studies varied more in their levels of Firmicutes than did the lean and obese individuals within each study, pointing to systematic biases and biological differences across the study populations.

The studies were done on 170 participants aged 18 to 50 of both genders who had a normal weight, overweight and obese.

For the study which lasted for 18 months, 249 obese or overweight participants in their 60s were assigned to 1 of 3 groups: a group with a low - calorie diet and without any exercise; a group with a low - calorie diet and walking; and a group with a low - calorie diet and weight training.

A daily 50 gram serving of blueberries lowered LDL oxidation by 27 % in obese participants, after a period of eight weeks (16).

Within diabetic populations, hyperglycaemia is considered the hallmark diagnostic marker of metabolic abnormality and a major contributor to T2DM associated macro - and micro - vascular complications.61 One study by Ash et al 36 saw 51 overweight / obese male subjects with T2DM assigned to one of three groups; (i) IER (four days 50 % ER, three days ad libitum intake / week), (ii) CER (30 % ER / day, all meals provided) and (iii) CER (30 % ER / day, food self - selected by the participant).

In all of these studies, the participants were overweight or obese and the goal was weight loss and improved health.

The participants of the study published in Lipids in Health and Disease (3/2009) were overweight or obese, but otherwise healthy individuals with cholesterol levels within their normal range.

Six of the participants whose BMIs decreased were still overweight or obese, yet 3 out of 6 reached normoglycemic levels (ID = 2, 6, 10).

However, the majority of these participants were in the obese body mass index range at the beginning of the study, so they had much more than 18 pounds to lose.

Scientists from Brazil discovered that overweight or obese individuals have a lower level of calcium in the body while a team of researchers from China found that participants who received calcium and Vitamin D supplement lost more body fat on a calorie - restricted diet than their counterparts who didn't take the supplement.

No significant difference was observed about the distribution of current smokers and obese participants across quintile categories of either PHVOs or non-HVOs.

If study participants stick to a 10 percent intake of fat, the following health benefits have been documented by numerous studies: Obesity In 1975, a study on low - fat diets and extremely obese study participants found that when the participants at an extremely low - fat diet, they were able to lose an average of 140 pounds in just a few months.

The researchers selected 17 randomized controlled trials that included a total of 1797 overweight and obese participants.

They randomly assigned 48 overweight and obese participants with Type 2 diabetes who were, on average, 59 years of age, to one of three diets that contained the same number of calories.

The lean participants showed more dramatic increases of SCFAs than obese ones, and more diverse ratios of bacteria, suggesting obese people respond differently to exercise.

The participants in the Newcastle trial, who ranged from overweight to extremely obese, were told to stop their diabetes medications and start a 600 - to 700 - calorie - a-day diet, consisting of three diet milkshakes a day at mealtimes and half a pound of nonstarchy vegetables a day.

The fitness levels of the participants ranged from very active to sedentary but healthy to overweight or obese — this last group had also developed metabolic syndrome or another chronic disease like cancer or heart failure.

[29][30][31][32] However, the recent DIETFITS Randomised Clinical Trial of 609 obese participants at Standford led by Christopher Gardner indicates that there wasn't a statistically significant difference between the effects of a healthy lower fat versus a healthy lower carb diet for people who do not have diabetes.

In another study on a group of 20 obese volunteers representing different sexes with body mass index (BMI) between 25 and 30 all participants consumed 10 ml of cold pressed coconut oil 3 times a day before meals.

A majority of those women will use contraception at some point in their lives, yet few large studies include sufficient numbers of overweight and obese participants to allow for accurate conclusions about this population.

Percentages of underweight (BMI < 18.5 kg / m2), normal weight (BMI 18.5 — 25 kg / m2), overweight (BMI 25 — 30 kg / m2), and obese (BMI > 30 kg / m2) participants were also calculated.

The majority of the participants were in the normal weight range (85.7 %, n = 342), 4.0 % (n = 16) were underweight, 8.3 % (n = 33) were overweight, and 2.0 % (n = 8) were obese.