Active clinical trials for "Body Weight"

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety profile of bariatric embolizations and confirm published reports of sustained post-procedural weight loss, and pathologically assess post-procedural metabolic effects.

The purpose of this study is to determine energy expenditure and sleep in response to protein/carbohydrate and fat ratio of the diet over a short-term and long-term period of time.

The goal of this study is to assess whether running deep wound stiches will be superior to deep interrupted stiches in body contouring surgeries in massive weight loss patients. This is a split-wound study, thereby providing an internal control within each wound. Each side of the wound will be randomized to receive one of the two suturing techniques. Patients and raters will be blinded to the suture technique used in both wound-halfs.

The objective of this clinical investigational study is to compare the acoustic respiration rates (RRa) obtained using the INVSENSOR0004 sensor in the subjects up to 10 kg with the respiration rates determined by manual annotations (RRref), and when applicable with capnography respiration rate (RRcap).

To evaluate the safety and tolerability of three different lactoferrin doses in preterm infants

The optimal heparin regimen during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) has not been well established in obese patients. Results of a preview study show that the standard heparin management based on total body weight in obese patients during CPB resulted in excessive heparin level, which could lead to excessive postoperative bleeding. To avoid this overdosing, an initial heparin bolus based on ideal body weight in obese patients was proposed. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the effects of heparin injection, based on ideal body weight, on intraoperative plasma heparin levels and activated coagulation time (ACT) in a population of obese patients, compared to a group of obese patients undergoing CPB surgery with heparin management based of total body weight. The secondary objectives are to evaluate the relationship between heparin level and ACT in each group of patients and at different time points during CPB, and to compare the incidence of bleeding, intraoperative transfusions and complications in the two groups of patients.

To compare four weeks of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) versus placebo associated with a reduced caloric diet on weight loss, glycemic control and regulators of hunger and satiety in overweight or obese subjects with different degrees of glucose tolerance, submitted to hypocaloric diet.

Weight loss achieved by dieting induces multiple changes. These changes include a decrease in metabolic rate (the rate in which the body burns its calories), an increase in appetite and other physiological and hormonal changes that may be the cause of failure in dieting. Many of these parameters that have never been evaluated when weight is lost after gastric bypass surgery will be tested in this study.

The world prevalence of obesity in adult population in 2014 was nearly 13% while in Indonesia, it has reached 32.9% in the same year. Obesity is an established risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. A large proportion of people who had succeeded to reduce body weight failed to maintain it (weight cycling). Studies were inconclusive about the best composition in the diet for such people to have a better life quality and reduce risk factors from non-communicable disease. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the body composition changes, Inflammation marker and oxidative stress marker changes resulted from low calorie high protein and standard protein diet programme in obese people with history of weight cycling. This is an open-randomized clinical trial of weight loss program as a part of a larger study researching the effect of low calorie high protein diet to body composition, oxidative stress, inflammation marker and metabolic syndrome in obese with weight cycling. Subjects were assigned to low calorie diet and were randomly distributed into two intervention groups, namely high protein group (22-30 % of total calories intake) and standard protein group (12-20%). Anthropometry, body composition data, and blood sample (for inflammation marker (HsCRP) and oxidative stress (malondialdehyde and glutathione)) were taken at baseline and at the end of the study. Subjects were followed up to 8 weeks with daily reminder and weekly counselling

The investigators aim to study the effects of a 24-week remote-based resistance exercise training program on cardiovascular disease risk factors, cognitive function, and quality of life in older adults living with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's Disease and/or a related dementia. Data for this study will be collected at the beginning, middle, and end of the resistance training program. Participants of this study will receive a baseline health-fitness assessment at the beginning of the study. Measurements of resting blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and lipids, waist and hip circumferences, height and weight, cognitive function and quality of life will be collected at the health-fitness assessment. Participants will then receive supervised remote-based resistance exercise training with Therabands, 3 days per week for 12 weeks before receiving a second 12-week health-fitness assessment in the middle of the intervention. Participants will then receive 12 additional weeks of supervised remote-based resistance exercise training with Therabands, 3 days per week for 12 weeks before receiving a third 24-week health fitness assessment at the end of the study.