Active clinical trials for "Obesity"

This research will constitute a 3 years follow-up which includes a re-assessment and re-intervention of obese or overweight adults with hypertension, recruited from a hypertension unit of a public hospital, that already participated in a similar program 3 years ago. At the same time, the aim of the study is to analyze the effects of the current program, which will take 3 months and promotes lifestyle changes focusing on healthy eating and increased physical activity in their 9 modules, comparing the results obtained in 2018. These patients will be allocated into one experimental group. Assessment will include: Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, Physical Activity levels, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of an acceptance-based therapy weight loss intervention compared with enhanced care for adolescents.

The main objective of the trial is to measure the efficacy of a nutritive bar, in the reduction of weight, body fat and the control of appetite, in patients with overweight and obesity. It will be a randomized single-blind design conducted in 40 subjects.

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Obesity could be avoided but once declared it become a chronic disease with numerous health complications, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancers, and finally a loss of life expectancy. Considering that after the age of 6 years old, half of the obese children will become obese adults, the WHO has been declared childhood obesity prevention as a health priority area. Large-scale prevention of obesity is challenging and it would be more efficient to proceed to early identification of high risks children to implement personalized prevention. The ELIPSE study main objective is to evaluate the efficacy of personalized multidisciplinary care to reduce the BMI of overweight or obese children. A 2 years educational program will be evaluated at short and longer terms (after a 12 months follow-up), and its benefits will also be assessed based on comparison with a historical control group. Along with efficacy evaluation, scientific objectives were designed to investigate clinical, genetic, social, and behavioural risk factors and to analyse potential correlations between these factors and a predisposition to overweight or obesity. Moreover, advanced analyses will be performed to decipher the impact of diverse risk profiles on the efficacy of the educational program. The motive of the ELIPSE study is to promote the health and well-being of children and their families to tackle the health burden represented by childhood overweight and obesity. Combined with innovative scientific objectives, this study ambitions to develop more efficient and more personalized preventive care methods.

Novo Nordisk are doing this study to see if semaglutide tablets can be used as a treatment to help people living with overweight or obesity lose weight. This study will look at the change in participants' body weight. Participants will either get semaglutide tablets (new medicine) or placebo tablets ('dummy' medicine that looks like semaglutide but has no effect on the body). For a fair comparison, people are divided into two groups at random by a computer. This process is called randomisation. Semaglutide tablets are new medicine being tested to treat overweight and obesity. Doctors in many countries can already prescribe semaglutide tablets at lower doses to treat type 2 diabetes. Participants will get semaglutide or placebo tablets for 68 weeks and will need to take 1 tablet every morning. In addition to taking the medicine, participants will have talks with study staff about: healthy food choices how to be more physically active what participants can do to lose weight The study will last for about 1½ year. Participants will have 14 clinic visits and 7 phone calls with the study healthcare professional. Blood samples will be taken at 12 visits. Women cannot take part if pregnant, breast-feeding or planning to get pregnant during the study period. If participants are a woman and are able to become pregnant, participants will be checked for pregnancy via urine tests.

The main purpose of the study was to assess the effect of LY3502970 in participants who have obesity or are overweight.

Recent data suggest that gut microbiota can function as an environmental factor that modulates the amount of body fat and obese individuals have an altered gut microbiota.The results of previous animal studies have suggest that a probiotic strain Lactobacillus paracasei K56 have reduced high-fat diet induced obesity. In this before-after pilot study, the participants were randomly assigned to 8 groups to compare the fat-reducing effect of the Lactobacillus paracasei K56 by continuously supplementing different product prototypes , and screen the best probiotic K56 prototype with the effect of fat reduction.

Obesity is a chronic disease characterized by the excessive accumulation of adipose tissue that is harmful to health. Dietary habits modification through a caloric restriction, macronutrient distribution including linoleic and linolenic (n-6:n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) ratio, has been suggested for obesity management. It has been proposed that the optimal n-6: n-3 ratio should be between 1:1 and 5:1 to maintain a healthy balance. Purpose: Compare the effect of a diet n6:n3 ratio of polyunsaturated fatty acids with a group supplemented with n-3 PUFA on lipid profile in erythrocyte membrane, biochemical and inflammatory markers in subjects with obesity. Methods: 58 subjects were randomly divided into two groups: fish oil group and the placebo group. Anthropometric and biochemical data were evaluated, cytokine levels was performed using the Bio-PlexPro™ HumanTh17Cytokine Assays (MagPix) panel. The fatty acid profile quantification in the erythrocyte membrane was carried out by gas chromatography. Statistical analysis was performed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) v.22 software.

One of the comorbidities of obesity is nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). L-citrulline is a non-protein amino acid that has shown positive effects on the degree of fat retention and metabolic profile in NAFLD. The objective is to assess the effect of oral L-citrulline supplementation on liver function and nonalcoholic fatty liver in adolescents with obesity. A clinical study will be carried out in 40 adolescents (15-19 years) with obesity, they will be divided into a control group that will receive a placebo and an experimental group that will receive 6 g of l-citrulline per day for eight weeks.