OBJECTIVE To determine in normal weight, overweight, and obese men the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality associated with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the influence of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This observational cohort study included 19,173 men who underwent a clinical examination, including a maximal exercise test. MetS was d...

BACKGROUND Although obesity is associated with increased inflammation, it is unclear whether this accounts for the increased cardiovascular risk in obesity. This population-based study explored whether inflammation-sensitive plasma proteins (ISPs) modify the cardiovascular risk in overweight or obese men. METHODS AND RESULTS The ISPs (fibrinogen, orosomucoid, alpha1-antitrypsin, haptoglobin, ...

SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in fat metabolism between visceral fat obese (VF-Ob) and abdominal subcutaneous obese (SF-Ob) men during "high-intensity endurance exercise". Fourteen obese (body mass index >25 kg/m(2)) men were classified into two groups according to visceral fat area using computed tomography; i.e., VF-Ob (n = 7; mean age, 52.0 ± 2.5 year) and ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether lower serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration in obese men is caused by plasma hemodilution and/or decreased serum testosterone levels. METHODS A sample of 413 men, from 45 to 75 years old, were randomly selected for the study among those who participated in prostate cancer screening at 2 urban urology practices in Argentina and Puerto Rico. Weight,...

UNLABELLED Aim. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of age, gender, obesity and scaling on glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and extracellular fluid volume (ECV) in healthy subjects. METHODS This is a retrospective multi-centre study of 1878 healthy prospective kidney transplant donors (819 men) from 15 centres. Age and body mass index (BMI) were not significantly different ...

Introduction: The use of exercise along with herbal supplements is one of the recommended methods for controlling obesity and its complications, but its effects have been controversial due to the diversity of training programs and also herbal supplements. Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of 10 week ginger and progressive resistance training on C-reactive prot...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the psychological response to the very first session of resistance exercise on positive well-being (PWB), psychological distress (PD), and perception of fatigue in untrained men and women who are obese. Forty-five (male = 22, female = 23) untrained, middle-aged volunteers (mean +/- SEM, 51.0 +/- 1.0; range, 40-69 years) participated in the study. Part...

the aim of the present research was to study the effect of resistance training on metabolic profile and insulin sensitivity in obese men. for this purpose, 16 obese males (age 35-48) were voluntarily selected and randomly assigned to two groups: resistance training and control group. subjects' blood samples were gathered in fasting state. the experimental subjects received resistance train...

BACKGROUND Obesity has been associated with low testosterone (T) in adult males and in pubertal boys. Therapy for hypogonadism with exogenous T may lead to testicular atrophy and later infertility. Only a few studies have demonstrated that the Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM) clomiphene citrate (CC), an estrogen receptor antagonist, increases T in obese hypogonadal men while prevent...

The relation between body mass index and prevalence of 17 chronic diseases or groups of diseases was analysed using data from the 1983 Italian National Health Survey, based on a sample of 72,284 individuals aged 15 or over randomly selected within strata of geographical area, size of place of residence and of household in order to be representative of the whole Italian population. The prevalenc...