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Long Term Food Regulation in the Obese and Non-Obese
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Impact of a Medically Supervised Weight Management Program on Obese and Morbidly Obese Persons
… While few argue for the need for weight loss in obese individuals it is important to identify factors associated with successful weight loss. These factors could include financial incentives, frequency of intervention sessions, use of adjunctive weight loss medications and supplemental diet …
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Motivational Factors of Eating and Exercise Behaviors of Non-obese and Obese Young Adults
… Identify motivational factors of non-obese (BMI 18.5-29) and obese (BMI ≥ 30) young adults (20-25 years) of eating and exercise behavior. Specific aims: 1) Compare differences in motivational styles of eating and exercise behavior in two groups of young adults, non-obese and obese, 2) …
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Beta-lactam antimicrobial dosing optimization in obese patients compared to non-obese patients using population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approach
… meropenem, and cefepime in hospitalized obese patients in order to determine dosing regimens that provide similar exposures between obese and non-obese patients. ^ For piperacillin/tazobactam, a retrospective analysis was conducted using prospectively collected serum concentration-time …
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Metabolic Syndrome In Obese African American Adolescents
… metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been conducted in obese African American adolescents (OAAA) using the International Diabetes Federation IDF criteria. MetS is a constellation of risk factors that increase the risk for chronic diseases and is defined as presence of any 3 or more of the 5 criteria: …
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Binge Eating in Ethnically Diverse Obese Adolescents
… both community and treatment-seeking samples of obese adolescents indicate that a subset engage in binge eating behaviors. This study investigated the prevalence and severity of binge eating behaviors among 86 primarily African American 11 to 17 year old adolescents seeking outpatient treatment …
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Mechanisms of Left Atrial Enlargement in Obese Individuals
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Analyzing the demographic factors affecting overweight and obese dogs
… reported that 59% of U.S. dogs are overweight or obese (APOP, 2022). With an estimated 84 to 89 million dogs inhabiting 45% of U.S. households, increasing dog ownership underscores the need for effective obesity mitigation strategies (AVMA Pet Ownership and Demographics Sourcebook, 2022). Obesity, …
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Comparative Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Medications among Obese Smokers
… months, and b) 12 months follow up period among obese smokers. Hypothesis (Ha): Abstinence rates among obese smokers using varenicline will be higher compared to obese smokers using bupropion during a)3, b)6, and c)12 month follow-up after treatment initiation. Objective II: To compare the …
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Emotional intelligence in binge eating disorder among the obese population
… to investigate several differences between obese individuals with a Binge Eating Disorder (BED-O) and obese individuals without a Binge Eating Disorder (Non-BED-O). The first focus was on investigating whether these two groups of participants have differing levels of (a) the global Emotional …
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Decelerated early growth in infants of overweight and obese mothers
… overweight (BMI 25-29.99 kg/m2), and 20 were obese (BMI30.00 kg/m2). At 2 weeks of age, infants did not differ in weight, length, fat free mass, fat mass, or body fat percent across maternal BMI groups. However, by 3 months of age, infants born to mothers with overweight or obese pre-pregnancy …
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Restraint as a Predictor of Intake Patterns Among Obese Women.
Obesity is a label that has different meanings. Sims (1979) has outlined three definitions of obesity. The first is the social definition, based upon visual perception of the individual being labelled. The second is the statistical definition, based upon a population norm and typically specifying …
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Influence of dietary treatment on the abdominally obese postmenopausal woman
Twenty postmenopausal women with abdominal obesity participated in a weight reduction study. The purpose was to determine the effects of a low and high glycemic index(GI) diet on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Subjects were randomly assigned to either the 1200 calorie low or high GI diet for 4 …
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Pharmacokinetics and effect of pioglitazone in obese, insulin-resistant cats
… of pioglitazone on insulin sensitivity in obese, insulin-resistant cats, to assess its potential for use in cats with diabetes mellitus. A secondary goal was to explore a technique for noninvasive measurement of liver fat in cats, to facilitate further study of pioglitazone or other agents …
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Toward understanding factors affecting falls among individuals who are obese
… affecting falls among individuals who are obese, to help develop effective intervention solutions to mitigate falls in this population. Obese individuals have been hypothesized to have an impaired plantar sensitivity, and this may influence their balance control, thus lead to more falls. …
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The effect of resistance training interventions in overweight and obese children
… body composition and health of children who are obese or overweight, the majority of these programs have used aerobic-based interventions. Despite the abundant research on the role of which parents and schools can play in the prevention of obesity in children, the use of resistance training in …
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