Active clinical trials for "Obesity"

Diet has a major role in the etiology of obesity, and there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that a variety of dietary factors can modulate obesity-induced chronic low-grade inflammation and thus the course of obesity-related chronic non-communicable diseases. The present intervention study aims to evaluate the effect of an anti-inflammatory diet on weight loss, body composition, cardiometabolic risk factors and immune system response among young adults of the obese younger adults.

Investigators examined the associations between SSS, energy balance, food intake and changes in body composition following a high calorie lunch for 2 weeks.

This research investigates obesity and associated psychiatric symptoms and disorders in a wide range of perspectives, to demonstrate the effects of obesity on the brain. The 1st aim is to assess the psychiatric symptom profiles in the group of obese patients applying for bariatric surgery and to determine the associated environmental stress factors. While, it is known that eating disorders, mood disorders and psychiatric drugs can cause obesity, obesity can also cause many psychiatric complications such as depression and cognitive disorders. There are no multi-centered studies that are conducted in this respect, and the guidelines on pre-evaluation and follow-up of patients are also lacking. The 2nd aim is to evaluate and monitor cognitive characteristics before and after bariatric surgery in obese patients. Obese people are at increased risk of dementia and are more likely to have cognitive deficits, especially executive function problems, that can affect everyday life. For this reason, obese individuals should be examined and monitored in more detail in terms of their cognitive characteristics and the change of cognitive functions during the weight loss process. The 3rd aim is to examine the relationship between obesity, bariatric surgery and reward processing system. Studies have been limited in determining whether addiction in these people is due to a search of a continuous substance as a cognitive feature or whether it is difficult to terminate it as an impulsive behavior when encountered with a pleasurable substance, even though there is no reward seeking or reward dependence. The 4th aim is the determination of the neuroanatomical and molecular components of cognitive changes observed after bariatric surgery. During the dynamic process following bariatric surgery, a variety of metabolites, chemokines, and microbiota changes may also affect the brain health and cognition. The 5th aim is to determine factors of eating, emotional regulation, reward system, addiction and impulsivity, and other psychopathologies that cause suboptimal weight loss or weight gain after bariatric surgery. Understanding the psychological and neurobiological factors involved in these processes can improve surgical interventions and significantly increase the quality of life for patients.

The study evaluated the effect of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) to decrease the incidence of desaturation events in patients with severe obesity undergoing upper endoscopy.

The study aims to assess the safety and tolerability of AMG 133 as single and multiple doses in participants with obesity

The project is aimed at investigating the effectiveness of respiratory training protocols in relieving exercise dyspnea, improving respiratory efficiency and the ability to perform physical activity, even daily, in obese patients. Therefore, some respiratory exercises with different characteristics and mechanisms of action will be introduced into the standard program of integrated metabolic rehabilitation implemented at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Piancavallo, Italy (Division of Auxology and Division of Metabolic Diseases) in order to identify a suitable training protocol for this population, the development of which can be carried out over time by patients even autonomously (Sheel and Dominelli 2019). The definition of the protocols will be based on what has been observed by recent studies conducted on healthy people (Wuthrich et al., 2015; Schaer et al., 2018) and on patient populations in which respiratory dysfunction is a primary or secondary component of the pathology (Calcaterra et al., 2014; Pomidori et al., 2009). All planned interventions are safe and will be adapted to the obese patient.

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three months' endurance training and three months' endurance-strength training on selected psychological aspects in women with abdominal obesity.

Conjugated linoleic acid or CLA, is one of the food supplements that could be found in meat, fats, and dairy products of ruminants which has been fed grass not on grains. CLA has shown anti-cancer, anti-obesity, and anti-inflammatory effects in several animal modules, but the results of the human studies were not consistent. Also, a very limited number of studies looked at the CLA effect on the respiratory system. The study will look at the effect of 12 weeks of supplementation of conjugated linoleic acid on obesity markers, lung functions, lipid profile, and inflammation in overweight and obese women in a double-blind randomized control trial. The study looked at the inflammation using different approaches, where it looked at the expression of adhesion molecules on the proinflammatory monocytes as well as it analysed the expression of the stress proteins Heat-shock proteins (HSPA1A and HSPB1)on the PBMCs.

A Phase 1 Study To Evaluate The Effect Of Two Steady State Doses of PF 06882961 On Rosuvastatin And Midazolam Pharmacokinetics In Otherwise Healthy Adult Participants With Obesity

The global obesity epidemic presents an unprecedented challenge to the public health worldwide. The factors associated with obesity are complex, and include health behaviours, such as eating habits and daily physical activity, and broader social, environmental and biological determinants that influence these health behaviours. The intestinal microbiota has several beneficial functions related to host health and accumulating evidence indicates that the gut microbiota plays a significant role in the development of obesity, obesity-associated inflammation and insulin resistance. Differences in community composition, functional genes and metabolic activities of the gut microbiota appear to distinguish lean vs obese individuals, suggesting that gut 'dysbiosis' contributes to the development of obesity and/or its complications. Recent studies have suggested some beneficial effects of probiotics and/or prebiotics on obesity and metabolic syndrome in adults; such experience is limited in children and adolescents. There are limited information about the synbiotics in children and adolescent with obesity.The mechanism of action of probotics on obesity are scarce and microbiota restoration/reshaping might be the one. The objective of this study tested the effects of a multispecies synbiotic on anthropometric measurement, glucose metabolism, lipid parameters and intestinal microbiota in children with exogenous obesity.