Sentences with phrase «of obese patients»

The study concludes that current obesity treatments are failing to achieve sustained weight loss for the majority of obese patients.

Brain scans of obese patients who had lost 10 % of their body weight revealed that less leptin leads to increased activity in regions of the brain that control our desire to eat.

Images from MRI brain scans of obese patients support this notion.

An X-ray depicts the upper gastrointestinal tract of an obese patient six months after gastric bypass surgery.

The annual chance of obese patients achieving five per cent weight loss was 1 in 12 for men and 1 in 10 for women.

The findings may have implications for a significant percentage of obese patients, many of whom consume more than half their daily calories at night.

In a small group of obese patients with type 2 diabetes, a low - carbohydrate diet followed for 2 weeks resulted in spontaneous reduction in energy intake to a level appropriate to their height; weight loss that was completely accounted for by reduced caloric intake; much improved 24 - hour blood glucose profiles, insulin sensitivity, and hemoglobin A1c; and decreased plasma triglyceride and cholesterol levels.

Dr Atkins and colleagues note that their study included a «challenging» population of obese patients with severe sleep apnea, who have often been excluded from studies of other anesthetic techniques for sleep apnea.

Through the Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF), GPs are rewarded financially for recording the number of obese patients — yet, ironically, not for doing anything about it.

They found that 4.6 percent of overweight patients (followed for a median of 5.75 years) and 4.3 percent of obese patients (followed for a median of 5.9 years) developed multiple myeloma, compared with 3.5 percent of people at normal weight (followed for a median of 5.2 years)-- a difference that is statistically significant.

«That subset of obese patients who come in with complaints of knee pain need to be carefully evaluated so as not to miss a potentially catastrophic vascular injury.»

The study looked at the probability of obese patients attaining normal weight or a 5 % reduction in body weight; patients who received bariatric surgery were excluded from the study.

«Our results suggest that restoring the kidney - protective action of autophagy may improve the kidney health of obese patients.»

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.

Their initial results confirmed why the tube potential is often increased: a scan of the chest, abdomen and pelvic area of obese patients, without adjusting the tube potential, showed that organs deep within the abdomen received 59 per cent less radiation compared to normal weight patients, due to the excess fat tissues.

«The findings of the study justify non-limited access to surgery to all eligible categories of obese patients in England.»

This is a beautiful example of a physician concerned about a clinical observation: the death of an obese patient who had an overabundance of fat and a fatal dearth of protein.

Los Angeles, CA (Scicasts)-- Scientists have re-created brain neurons of obese patients using «disease in a dish» technology, offering a new method to study the brain's role in obesity and possibly help tailor...

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.»

In fact, this research was inspired by one clinician's observation that the majority of his obese patients endured sexual abuse as children.

(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.

This evidence suggests the current system is not working for the vast majority of obese patients.»

Professor Martin Gulliford, senior author from the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London, said: «Current strategies to tackle obesity, which mainly focus on cutting calories and boosting physical activity, are failing to help the majority of obese patients to shed weight and maintain that weight loss.

ALL of the obese patients lost weight at a constant rate, regardless of the nutrient composition of the diet; whether fat or carbohydrate intake was high or low — what mattered was the total calorie deficit.

So, of the obese patients I treat, they are often the worst of the worst in terms of obesity and insulin resistance.

ALL of the obese patients lost weight at a constant rate, regardless of the nutrient composition of the diet; whether fat or carbohydrate intake was high or low --