BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Very low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LC) diets are used for type 2 diabetes (T2DM) management, but their effects on psychological health remain largely unknown. This study examined the long-term effects of an LC diet on psychological health. METHODS One hundred and fifteen obese adults [age: 58.5 ± 7.1 years; body mass index: 34.6 ± 4.3 kg m(-2) ; HbA1c : 7.3 ± 1.1%] with T2D...

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...

A 59 years-old Romanian women with a history of HCV-related chronic liver disease, underwent abdominal ultrasound scan. She was totally asymptomatic. The patient was obese (weight: 82 kg, height:165 cm, body mass index (BMI):30,1 kg/m2 ). She referred no pregnancy in her life, menopause at the age of 50 years and no smoke or alcohol assumption. She was affected by arterial hypertension, diabete...

BACKGROUND Law enforcement officers perform physically demanding tasks that generally remain constant as they age. However, there is limited population-specific research on age, gender and normative fitness values for law enforcement officers as opposed to those of the general population. The purpose of this study was to profile the current level of fitness for highway patrol officers based on ...

PURPOSE To assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI), subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat, liver density, and histopathologic hepatic steatosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, 143 patients (male/female, 67/76; mean age, 50 years) underwent a non-targeted transjugular (n = 125) or percutaneous (n = 18) liver biopsy between 2006 and 2010. The biopsy indications ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the longitudinal relationship of weight change on incidence and remission of insulin resistance (IR). METHODS We performed a cohort study in apparently healthy Korean men, 30 to 59 years of age, who underwent a health checkup and were followed annually or biennially between 2002 and 2009. The computer model of homeostasis model assessment, H...

OBJECTIVE The present study determined trends in malnutrition among under-5 children in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. DESIGN Surveillance. SETTING The study was conducted in the urban Dhaka and the rural Matlab hospitals of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, where every fiftieth patient and all patients coming from the Health and Demographic Surveil...

BACKGROUND Explanatory evaluation of interventions for prevention of weight gain is required beyond changes in weight, to determine for whom the intervention works and the underlying mechanisms of change. It was hypothesised that participant characteristics moderate intervention effect on weight change and improved eating and physical activity behaviours during the 3-month program mediate the r...