objective: diabetes is a chronic disease that causes severe side effects in patients. according to the previous studies, the incidence of depression and anxiety is higher among patients with diabetes type 2. the present study was conducted with the aim of examining the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction program and conscious yoga on depression, anxiety and stress in patients wi...

To assess the distribution of serum concentrations of the atherogenic lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] in an obese population and the possible effects of weight reduction, we determined Lp(a) in 52 white, moderately obese subjects (16 men and 36 women). The subjects were participating in a weight-reduction program of diet, exercise, and behavior modification plus combination anorectic drug therapy (fenfl...

Background The world-wide prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents has reached an alarming level and become a major health problem in today’s world. The aim of this study was to identify the stages and processes of change as well as their relationship with weight controlbased on a Trans- theoretical Model (TTM) in overweight and obese Iranian adolescents. Materials an...

INTRODUCTION Low carbohydrate diets (LCD) have shown beneficial effects on short-term weight reduction programs for obese individuals without diabetes, but the long-term evidence of efficacy on individuals with type 2 diabetes is not conclusive. OBJECTIVE To evaluate, the effectiveness of 12 or more weeks of LCD compared to Low Fat Diet (LFD), Usual Care Diet (UCD) or Low Glycemic Index Diet ...

Objective. The study aim was to analyze whether anthropometrical parameters and TSH values in obese children with isolated subclinical hypothyroidism (IsHT) treated with levothyroxine (LT4) and weight reduction program differ from those managed by dietary and behavior counselling only. Material and Methods. 51 obese children with IsHT, who were treated according to the same weight reduction pro...

How can techniques drawn from machine learning be applied to the learning of structured, compositional representations? In this work, we adopt functional programs as our representation, and cast the problem of learning symbolic representations as a symbolic analog of dimensionality reduction. By placing program synthesis within a probabilistic machine learning framework, we are able to model th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Obesity-related glomerulopathy (ORG) is an increasing cause of end-stage renal disease, but evidence concerning the effects of treatments is rather limited. This study was aimed at exploring the renoprotective effects of weight loss on patients with ORG. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A total of 63 patients with renal biopsy-proven ORG had food and exe...

Given a program P that exhibits a certain property ψ (e.g., a C program that crashes GCC when it is being compiled), the goal of program reduction is to minimize P to a smaller variant P ′ that still exhibits the same property, i.e., ψ (P ′). Program reduction is important and widely demanded for testing and debugging. For example, all compiler/interpreter development projects need effective pr...