We examined whether serum from obese, compared to non-obese, PCa (prostate cancer) patients creates a growth-enhancing tumor micro-environment in vitro. Serum from 80 subjects was divided into four groups: normal weight men with and without PCa and overweight/obese men with and without PCa. Cell proliferation, migration, and invasion were measured in LNCaP, and PC3 cells treated with patient se...

BACKGROUND The relative contributions of a low and high body mass index (BMI [weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) to all-cause and cause-specific mortality are still controversial. OBJECTIVE To examine mortality rates in relation to BMI in a prospective cohort study of 48,287 Dutch men and women aged 30 to 54 years at baseline from 1974 to 1980. METHODS During an avera...

Insulin resistance is a pathophysiologic link to development of several metabolic disorders in obese subjects. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between obesity and insulin resistance using HOMA-IR index in normoglycemic obese subjects and to compare the results with the result of healthy non obese subjects. The importance is to identify the subjects in risk for developing pr...

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that obese persons have lower circulating natriuretic peptide (NP) concentrations. The cause of the relative NP deficiency seen in obese persons is poorly understood, although variation in body composition and metabolic abnormalities has been suggested to play a role. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess whether variation in circulating NP concentratio...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the increasing prevalence of obesity on the development of health care utilization in Denmark in the period 1987-2005. PATIENTS AND METHODS From a random sample of adult Danes (19,142 women and 18,335 men) who participated in the Danish Health Interview Surveys in 1987, 1994, 2000, and 2005, self-reported data on type of health...

BACKGROUND Body fat distribution is, next to overall obesity, an important risk factor for cardiometabolic outcomes in the general population. In particular, visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is strongly associated with cardiometabolic risk factors. Since it is unclear whether body fat distribution is also important in men and women with obesity we investigated the associations between measures of ...

BACKGROUND Asthma, a chronic respiratory disease affecting over 18.7 million American adults, has marked disparities by gender, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Our goal was to identify gender-specific demographic and socioeconomic determinants of asthma prevalence among U.S. adults using data from the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the National Health and Nutri...

Obese men have a higher rate of prostate cancer-related death than non-obese men, and obesity increases the risk of prostate cancer progression and biochemical recurrence. The purpose of this study was to assess needs and interests of men for a technology-driven weight loss intervention to reduce prostate cancer risk. We distributed a survey collecting demographic characteristics, health histor...

ENWEndNote BIBJabRef, Mendeley RISPapers, Reference Manager, RefWorks, Zotero AMA Pierzak M, Głuszek S. The effect of weight reduction on the sexual function and reproductive health obese men. Medical Studies/Studia Medyczne. 2022;38(3):233-244. doi:10.5114/ms.2022.119923. APA Pierzak, M., & Głuszek, (2022). Medyczne, 38(3), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.5114/ms.2022.119923 Chicago Monika, Stanis...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Abdominal obesity (AO) is associated with elevated risk for cardiovascular diseases; however, this association is less clear for non-obese people. We estimated the association of AO and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) and disease in non-obese adult individuals from Chile. SUBJECTS/METHODS 5248 adults (15 years of age or older) of both sexes from the Chilean National H...