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Severe obesity with hypo-leptinemia [PDF]
Endocrine JournalSome cases of obesity are thought to be associated with hypo-leptinemia. This may cause decreased appetite suppression resulting in increased appetite, leading to weight gain.
Masanori Kita +7 more
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Effectiveness of a Multidisciplinary Treatment Program for Severe Obesity in Adults Based on the Clinically Significant Weight Loss [PDF]
Journal of Functional Morphology and KinesiologyBackground: Obesity is a chronic and complex disease; by its nature, it represents an enormous challenge to be solved and managed. For that matter, several guidelines have been published, but there is still a long way to go until concrete scaled results ...
Greice Westphal-Nardo +9 more
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HOMA-IR as a Predictor of PAI-1 Levels in Women with Severe Obesity [PDF]
BiomedicinesBackground: Obesity is a chronic inflammatory disorder that increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Given the high CVD mortality rate among individuals with obesity, early screening should be considered. Plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-
Fabiana Martins Kattah +11 more
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Severe Obesity Defined by Percentiles of WHO and Cardiometabolic Risk in Youth with Obesity [PDF]
ChildrenBackground/Objectives: The pediatric definition of severe obesity (OB) depends on the body mass index (BMI) references. We evaluated different BMI-derived metrics of the World Health Organization (WHO) system to define which cut-off is associated with ...
Giuliana Valerio +14 more
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The Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Glutathione Synthesis in Individuals with Severe Obesity [PDF]
AntioxidantsGlycine is deficient in individuals with obesity but improves following bariatric surgery. Glycine deficiency could impair glutathione (GSH) synthesis and worsen oxidative stress.
Hong Chang Tan +5 more
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Cutoff values of body mass index for severe obesity in Korean children and adolescents: the 99th percentile versus 120% of the 95th percentile [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2023 Purpose Several definitions for severe obesity have been used, primarily the 99th percentile of the body mass index (BMI) and 120% of the 95th BMI percentile.
Jaewon Choe, Jaehyun Kim, Jin Soo Moon
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 PurposeTo evaluate potential regional homogeneity (ReHo) cerebrum function lesions in people with severe obesity and meibomian gland dysfunction (SM) and probe the connection between aberrant cerebrum activity and clinical manifestations.Patients and ...
Yi Liu +9 more
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Biomedicines, 2023 Background: Weight loss before undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) has been suggested to reduce perioperative complications, although with controversial results.
Miguel A. Rubio-Herrera +3 more
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Brain Sciences, 2021 Visceral adipose tissue accumulation is an important determinant of metabolic risk and can be estimated by the visceral adiposity index (VAI). Visceral adiposity may impact brain regions involved in eating behavior.
Sylvain Iceta +9 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 ObjectiveUtilizing the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) technique, this study sought to correlate spontaneous cerebral abnormalities with the clinical manifestations of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) in severely obese (SO ...
Yu-Ling Xu +11 more
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