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Effectiveness of Mobile Health Applications for 5% Body Weight Reduction in Obese and Overweight Adults

open access: yesJournal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, 2021
Background : World Health Organization reports that over 1.9 billion adults are obese. Studies have found that people who reduce their body weight by 5% experience considerable health benefits.
Myeunghee Han, Sang Youl Rhee
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Continued Weekly Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Placebo on Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults With Overweight or Obesity: The STEP 4 Randomized Clinical Trial.

open access: yesJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021
Importance The effect of continuing vs withdrawing treatment with semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist, on weight loss maintenance in people with overweight or obesity is unknown.
D. Rubino   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health Risks, Past Usage, and Intention to Use Weight Loss Products in Normal Weight Women with High and Low Body Dysphoria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Objective: There are many health risks involved with the use of weight loss products by normal weight women. The mass media may compound this problem through the promotion of weight loss products and a thin body size.
Andrews, J. Craig   +3 more
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Factors Related to the Weight Control Practices of Korean Adults

open access: yesJournal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, 2021
Background : Maintenance of proper weight can help protect against chronic diseases. This study investigated the weight control practices of Korean adults and associated factors.
Hyo Young Lee, Bo Kyung Hong
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Subcutaneous Semaglutide vs Placebo as an Adjunct to Intensive Behavioral Therapy on Body Weight in Adults With Overweight or Obesity: The STEP 3 Randomized Clinical Trial.

open access: yesJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021
Importance Weight loss improves cardiometabolic risk factors in people with overweight or obesity. Intensive lifestyle intervention and pharmacotherapy are the most effective noninvasive weight loss approaches.
T. Wadden   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why lose weight? Reasons for seeking weight loss by overweight but otherwise healthy men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
OBJECTIVE: To identify the reasons for seeking weight loss in overweight or obese but otherwise healthy men. DESIGN: Interviews, prior to intervention, with subjects who had volunteered to participate in a work-site-based weight loss study.
A Matthews   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Weight loss from diagnosis of Crohn’s disease to one year post-diagnosis results in earlier surgery

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Malnutrition might play a key role in the prognosis of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). The aim of this study was to explore the impact of weight loss from diagnosis of CD to one-year post-diagnosis on disease prognosis in terms of surgery.
Minjee Kim   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Albumin concentrations are primarily determined by the body cell mass and the systemic inflammatory response in cancer patients with weight loss [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The association between hypoalbuminemia and poor prognosis in patients with cancer is well recognized. However, the factors that contribute to the fall in albumin concentrations are not well understood.
Colin S. McArdle   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Modeling weight-loss maintenance to help prevent body weight regain [PDF]

open access: yesThe American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2008
Lifestyle intervention can successfully induce weight loss in obese persons, at least temporarily. However, there currently is no way to quantitatively estimate the changes of diet or physical activity required to prevent weight regain. Such a tool would be helpful for goal-setting, because obese patients and their physicians could assess at the outset
Kevin D, Hall, Peter N, Jordan
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Body weight loss after birth increases stress in the newborns

open access: yesGlobal Pediatrics, 2023
Background: Body weight loss is physiological when is lower than 8–10% in the first days of life. Low birth body weight is correlated to up regulation of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis function.
Giuseppe De Bernardo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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