OBJECTIVES To investigate obese men's health behaviors and strategies for change. METHODS Qualitative interviews with 36 men (BMI 30 and over). RESULTS All men felt personally responsible for their weight gain. Sedentary lifestyles, stress, lack of worklife balance and weight-based stigma were all significant causes of weight gain and barriers to weight loss. These factors also contributed...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between body mass index and mortality in middle aged British men. DESIGN Men who were recruited for the British Regional Heart Study were followed up for a mean of nine years. SETTING General practices in 24 British towns. SUBJECTS 7735 Men aged 40-59 years selected from the age-sex registers of one group practice in each of the 24 towns. MAIN OUTCOME ME...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com in SHBG levels when compared between those with MetS and without (P =0.8). On univariate and multivariate analysis for obese men, both TT and SHBG remained significantly and independently lower in obese men with MetS, for TT (OR 6.4 CI (-321.9-157.9) P< 0.00001), and for SHBG (OR 1.39, CI (-49.3-19.6) P= 0.00001). In men with no MetS, both TT and SH...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com in SHBG levels when compared between those with MetS and without (P =0.8). On univariate and multivariate analysis for obese men, both TT and SHBG remained significantly and independently lower in obese men with MetS, for TT (OR 6.4 CI (-321.9-157.9) P< 0.00001), and for SHBG (OR 1.39, CI (-49.3-19.6) P= 0.00001). In men with no MetS, both TT and SH...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic status (SES) imbalances in developed and developing countries may result in individuals being overweight and obese. However, few studies have investigated this issue in Japan. We herein examined the relationship between SES and being underweight, overweight or obese according to sex and age groups (20-64 or ≥65 years) in Japan. METHODS In 2010, we established a cohort...

We sought to assess whether direct uptake of circulating free fatty acids (FFAs) by adipocytes occurs in vivo in overnight postabsorptive humans and, if so, whether there are regional differences in uptake between lean and obese women and men. We used bolus injections of radiolabeled FFA tracers followed by carefully timed adipose tissue biopsies. First, we validated a method to measure direct ...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the difference in metabolic parameters by waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) in a population of Korean men and women. METHOD We collected data on 69,535 Korean men and women and performed a cross-sectional analysis of the data. Study subjects were grouped by BMI and WC. We measured metabolic parameters for each group and compared the differences in th...

We conducted a systematic review of intima-media thickness(IMT) and inflammatory markers, compared IMT and identified by meta-analysis related to EMI and inflammatory variables in obese and non-obese children and adolescents. We searched for articles in databases Pubmed, Bireme and Science Direct, during years 2000 to 2010, with the following key words in English: "obesity", "adolescents", "ath...

Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia constitute risk factors for morbidity and premature mortality. Based on animal and in vitro studies, resveratrol reverts these risk factors via stimulation of silent mating type information regulation 2 homolog 1 (SIRT1), but data in human subjects are scarce. The objective of this study was to examine the metabolic effects of high-dose resver...