Active clinical trials for "Obesity"

High quality behavioral weight loss programs are not widely accessible. The Internet offers one way to deliver health behavior programs to a wider audience. However, effective weight loss treatments are intensive and program delivery over the Internet may not be capable of duplicating the level of engagement typically generated during traditional in-person treatment. The goal of this study is to test the effectiveness of three weight loss interventions: Internet alone, Internet+periodic in-person support, and in-person alone. The investigators hypothesize that the in-person and internet+in-person interventions will produce better weight loss and maintenance than the internet only group.

To test the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote long-term weight management of obese women in medically underserved rural counties.

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of topiramate (96, 192, and 256mg daily) with placebo in long-term treatment of obesity.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of conservative treatments of obesity with surgery (gastric bypass).

To investigate the efficacy and safety of KES524 in patients with obesity (visceral fat obesity with type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemia), a 52-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled comparative study is conducted. This study aims to examine superiority of KES524 to placebo by employing change and percent change in body weight (primary endpoints) and changes in proportion of subjects achieving ≧ 5% weight reduction, BMI, waist circumference, visceral fat area, subcutaneous fat area, V/S ratio by abdominal CT scan, HbA1c, TG and HDL-C (secondary endpoints).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of topiramate compared to placebo in reducing the number of binge days in patients with moderate to severe binge-eating disorder associated with obesity.

The primary goal of this study is to provide a better understanding of: 1) the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obese subjects, and 2) the effect of marked weight loss on the histologic and metabolic abnormalities associated with NAFLD. The following hypotheses will be tested: obesity causes hepatic fat accumulation because of excessive fatty acid release from fat tissue and increased free fatty acid availability, increased hepatic (liver) fat content causes insulin-resistant glucose (sugar) production by the liver and altered liver protein synthesis, increased hepatic fat content causes increased lipid (fat) peroxidation, hepatic inflammation, necrosis and fibrosis, and marked weight loss improves NAFLD once patients are weight stable.

The purpose of this proposal was to evaluate and compare the health benefits of using upper extremity exercise versus functional electrical stimulation for lower extremity exercise. It was our hypothesis that both Functional Electrical Stimulation Leg Cycle Ergometry (FES LCE) exercise and voluntary Arm Crank Ergometry (ACE) upper extremity exercise would increase whole body energy expenditure, thereby increasing muscle mass, insulin sensitivity, glucose effectiveness and improving lipid profiles in adults with paraplegia.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of metabolites of ATL-962 in the blood and to investigate the effect of ATL-962 on the amount of fat that is excreted in the faeces in subjects who are obese

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of using the weight loss medication Xenical (generic name - orlistat) on weight loss and change in heart disease risk factors in patients of the Healthy Heart Program Lipid Clinic at St. Paul's Hospital over a three month period. Xenical works by blocking the body's absorption of dietary fat in the gut, allowing it to pass through to be excreted, therefore reducing the intake of fat and calories. This is a pilot study supported by Hoffmann-La Roche Limited which produces Xenical. The aim is to investigate whether weight loss will also result in reductions in heart disease risk factors that may allow for less of a need for medications controlling lipid levels, hypertension and plasma glucose.