Weight reduction programs usually improve the exercise capacity of patients with chronic exogenous obesity. However, the reversibility of left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction associated with obesity is unknown. Accordingly, an analysis was made of hemodynamic data obtained by cardiac catheterization and standard chest roentgenograms in nine markedly obese patients before and after weigh...

BACKGROUND After 5 years, most reports show that less than 10% of people maintain a 5% loss from initial body weight. Weight maintenance after 10 years is rarely assessed, especially in commercial programs. The current article reports weight maintenance in individuals who had participated 2 to 11 years earlier in a popular commercial weight loss program based on Canada's Food Guide called Minca...

Background: Despite the efficacy of reduction mammoplasty and demonstration that resection weight does not predict symptomatic relief of macromastia, many insurers still rely on the Schnur scale or predetermined resection weight for reimbursement. Insurers review pathology reports to determine reimbursement. Tissue desiccation and handling decrease specimen weight prior to pathology evaluation....

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between weight reduction behaviour among non-overweight schoolchildren and dietary habits, perception of health, well-being and health complaints. DESIGN Analysis of the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey, a cross-sectional study involving schoolchildren aged 10-17 years. SETTING Schools in the Republic of Ireland. RESULTS The p...

Cartas científicas Nutr Hosp. 2009;24(6):751-762 We assessed weight management practices in 266 boys and 312 girls (mean age 15.6 ± 1.3 years) from two schools in Lisbon. Body image was assessed using the method of Stunkard and participants were classified as desiring to loose weight if the ideal image was thinner than the current. Other data collected included measured height and weight, curre...

Let G be an edge-weighted hypergraph on n vertices, m edges of size O(1), where the edges have real weights in an interval [1, W ]. We show that if we can approximate a maximum weight matching in G within factor α in time T (n,m,W ) then we can find a matching of weight at least (α − ǫ) times the maximum weight of a matching in G in time (ǫ) max 1≤q≤O(ǫ log n ǫ log ǫ−1 ) maxm1+...mq=m ∑q 1 T (n...