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Background: Vitamin D deficiency is common in obese adolescents and a risk factor for insulin resistance. We investigated if prevailing serum 25-OH vitamin D might predict the body fat loss in a group of obese adolescents undergoing a residential weight loss program. Methods: In 92 (35 male) obese adolescents (aged 10.6-19 years) undergoing a residential weight loss program in Belgium, fasting serum 25-OH vitamin D (25-OH-D), insulin, glucose ...

Aims Overweight increases the risk of recurrence and progression of atrial fibrillation (AF). This study assesses the knowledge of overweight AF patients about the relation between their weight and AF, to gauge their motivation losing weight and/or following weight reduction programs. Methods A multicenter cross-sectional descriptive study was performed at three Belgian hospitals. A validated self-developed questionnaire was presented to AF ...

INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a global health challenge, and pharmacologic options are emerging. Once daily subcutaneous administration of 3 mg liraglutide, a glucagon like peptide-1 analogue, has been shown to induce weight loss in clinical trials, but real-world effectiveness data are scarce. METHODS: It is a single-centre retrospective cohort study of patients who were prescribed liraglutide on top of lifestyle adaptations after multidisciplinary ...

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Group housing is often assumed to improve the welfare of gregarious species. Whether this is actually the case depends on the advantages (e.g. more opportunity for social and locomotor behaviour) and disadvantages (e.g. increased fighting and wounding) induced by the specific housing type. We evaluated the effects of a semi-group system (grouping four does for half of each reproductive cycle) on welfare by comparing it to ...

Group housing is often assumed to improve the welfare of gregarious species. Whether this is actuallythe case depends on the advantages (e.g. more opportunity for social and locomotor behaviour) and dis-advantages (e.g. increased fighting and wounding) induced by the specific housing type. We evaluatedthe effects of a semi-group system (grouping four does for half of each reproductive cycle) on welfare bycomparing it to single-doe cages. ...

Different outcomes of the effect of green tea on weight loss (WL) and weight maintenance (WM) have been reported in studies with subjects differing in ethnicity and habitual caffeine intake.

To study the pathways for initiation of intrinsic blood coagulation, activated human platelets were compared with dextran sulfate as surfaces for factor XI activation by factor XIIa, factor XIa, or thrombin. Activated gel-filtered platelets promoted the activation of factor XI (60 nm) by thrombin (0.02-10 nm, EC(50) approximately 100 pm, threshold concentration approximately 10 pm) at initial rates 2- to 3-fold greater than those obtained with ...

This study was conducted among 609 adults on stavudine-based antiretroviral treatment (ART) for at least one year at health center level in Kigali, Rwanda to (a) determine the proportion who manifest weight loss after one year of ART (b) examine the association between such weight loss and a number of variables, namely: lipoatrophy, virological failure, adherence and on-treatment CD4 count and (c) assess the validity and predictive values of ...

Background: Research in humans and mice suggests that obesity influences the abundance and diversity of gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota, and that an "obese microbiome" influences energy metabolism and fat storage in the host. Microbiota membership and composition have been previously assessed in healthy cats. However, research investigating the effects of obesity and weight loss on the cat's fecal microbiota is limited. Therefore, this study's ...

This study evaluated the short-term effectiveness of a multidisciplinary residential obesity (OB) treatment program by describing changes in body weight, related measures, and gross motor co-ordination. Secondarily, it was examined to what extent the amount of relative weight loss achieved by overweight and obese (OW/OB) participants explained the projected improvement in gross motor co-ordination. Thirty-six OW/OB children (aged 10.5 ± 1.4 ...