Sentences with phrase «of obese patients who»

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.

Not exact matches

«The patient population that is indicated for bariatric surgery is different than the universe of patients who are just morbidly obese.

«Orthopedic surgeons are seeing a lot of these patients who are morbidly obese and have hip and knee arthritis,» said Dr. McLawhorn.

«Our findings highlight the high proportion of newly diagnosed RA patients who are overweight or obese and who may have disease that is harder to treat.

«Our findings provide evidence that the results of earlier studies — that patients who had normal weights were at higher risk of death — may have been related to unintended weight loss as opposed to a protective effect of being overweight or obese.

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.

«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.

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.

The research team investigated the association between weight loss and the progression of cartilage changes on MRI over a 48 - month period in 640 overweight and obese patients (minimum body mass index [BMI] 25 kg / m2) who had risk factors for osteoarthritis or MRI evidence of mild to moderate osteoarthritis.

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.

«Obese patients who survive their sepsis hospitalization use more health care resources and require more Medicare spending — but this apparent increase in resource use is a result of living longer, not increased use per day alive,» says senior author Theodore Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at the U-M Health System.

But not much is known about the corresponding impact of bariatric surgery on mildly obese patients who have diabetes.

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.

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.

Previous observational studies estimate that 60 to 90 percent of bariatric surgery patients who were obese and had type 2 diabetes were later able to maintain normal blood glucose levels without medication.

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.

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 %.

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.

In this 2 year study LDL cholesterol levels lowered in obese patients who followed a ketogenic diet (consisting of 30 g carbohydrate, 1 g / kg protein, 20 % saturated fat, and 80 % polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat).

When a rigorous gluten free diet was followed, it was seen that while those patients with low BMI attained the normal range, 50 % of those who were obese also attained normal BMI.

All we have to go on is preclinical data in mice (and many of these mice are obese and raised in crowded cages6), and we must remember this, especially with patients and their families who are at wit's end because they are unable to effectively follow the diet.

In that 146 obese or overweight patient study, those who ate a low - carb diet lost an average of 9.5 % of their body weight.

For individuals who have normal lipid levels and who maintain a reasonable body weight, a Step 1 diet is recommended initially.46 47 For overweight or obese individuals who need to lose weight, a decrease in dietary fat may be an effective way to reduce calories, and thus, a Step 1 diet is recommended.46 47 Factors to consider include the dietary habits and preferences of the patient.

The rate of progression to absolute insulin deficiency has not been studied in dogs, but epidemiological factors closely match those of human patients with the LADA form of type 1 diabetes, who are usually not obese and tend to be middle aged and older.