Active clinical trials for "Obesity"

The main objective of the study is to assess the serum levels of progranulin and FAM19A5 protein in adults with metabolic syndrome.

Obesity is defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation. It is a complex disease with multifactorial etiology. Although the prevalence of obesity is generally greater in elders and women, obesity rates have increased in all ages and both sexes in recent years. Obesity or overweight also has a higher risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, hypertension, hyperuricemia, gout, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, breast cancer, endometrial cancer and colorectal cancer. The body mass index (BMI), calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters, is widely used to define overweight and obesity in clinical studies. In Taiwan, subjects with BMI between 24 and 27 were diagnosed of overweight, and those with BMI over 27 were diagnosed of obesity. Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) was widely used in the treatment of obesity. The main purpose of CHM treatment is to promote metabolism, suppress appetite and block intestinal digestion and absorption of fat. Since there are various adverse effects of anti-obesity medicines, and there are surgical complications including infection and anastomotic stenosis, patients may seek CHM for losing weight. Many studies have indicated the efficacy of single herb in the treatment of obesity. Currently, the amount of computerized clinical data is increasing rapidly with the adoption of electronic medical records. The study is expected to collect the medical records, including the data of body weight, related side effects and biochemical data of each individual. By comparing the change of related data before and after CHM treatment, we could evaluate the efficacy of CHM in patients with obesity.

This study focuses on the relationship between obesity and stroke, which are both characterized by increasing incidence and prevalence with epidemic proportions worldwide and tremendous socio-economic consequences. Furthermore, obesity is an established risk factor for stroke and affects especially younger people, which increases the stroke incidence in younger patients. Unfortunately, the relationship between overweight and acute ischemic stroke including treatment by thrombolysis has not yet been evaluated thoroughly.

The period from conception to 2 years of age ('first 1000 days') has been recognized as a critical period for long-lasting programming effects on later obesity and associated NCD and a window of opportunity to implement intervention for reducing and treating childhood obesity. However, there is a dearth of prospective intervention studies that address this nutritional problem in Jamaica and there are no reports of sustainable intervention. Jamaica is a middle income country in which overweight and obesity in children are also increasing at an alarming rate. The investigators in Jamaica are seeking to provide a more comprehensive knowledge on the link between early life nutrition and later childhood health and to assess the impact of an intervention of infant feeding counselling/education in mothers on growth and body composition in their offspring.

Physical activity is mainly considered and use for its impact on energy expenditure in the treatment of obesity, and less is known concerning its indirect effects on energy intake. The aim of this work is to clarify the impact of an acute bout of exercise, depending on its intensity (high versus low), on the following energy intake and nutrient utilization, in obese and non-obese boys and men.

This study tests the hypothesis that exercise training can confer additional benefit to patients in weight-loss programs in the form of improvements in either metabolic or vascular parameters or both. Patients will be randomized to either diet plus conventional physical activity or diet plus a planned exercise training. The interventions will be carried out until the patients lose between 5% and 7.5% of their initial weight. At entry and at the end, all subjects will be evaluated for outcomes such as blood glucose, lipid profile, insulin, c-reactive protein, fibrinogen, vascular reactivity (doppler ultrasound) and total and abdominal visceral fat (CT-scan). Both groups will be compared.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether walking exercise after dietary treatment of obesity is associated with a decrease of the daily spontaneous physical activity and\or with an increase of the time spent in sedentary activities. Our hypothesis is that the practice of walking as an exercise during the phase of weight stability following the dietary treatment of obesity leads to a reduction of spontaneous physical activity and\or to an increase in the time spent in sedentary activities.

MOPS: Mannheim Obesity Pilot Study Introduction: Obesity is a central feature of the metabolic syndrome. With increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, the incidence of WHO III° obesity will further augment. In this subset of obese patients, metabolic complications and cardiovascular risk are major clinical issues. Epidemiological data show that with increased BMI mortality rises (1). The SOS-Study demonstrated, for the first time, that bariatric surgery and consecutive weight reduction are associated with a decrease in cardiovascular and overall mortality. Significant mortality in this study was caused by cardiovascular events and cancer. Metabolic Syndrome - MS - Despite varying definitions of the metabolic syndrome, obesity is one of its central features. Depending on the definition used, it can represent an obligate criterion (IDF) or a facultative parameter (WHO and ATP III). Even though not obligate, extreme obesity is a central risk factor for most other parameters of the metabolic syndrome. Endothelial dysfunction -ED- represents the initial step of atherosclerosis (3). An appropriate measurement is the evaluation by retinal analysis. Epidemiological data demonstrate increased cardiovascular risk with retinal vessel pathology (4).

The aim of our study is to suggest possible underlying mechanisms for the observed clinical differences in disease severity and behavior of overweight and obese patients with crohn's disease(BMI > 25 kg/m²)as compare to non-obese crohn's patients with a normal or low weight ( BMI ≤ 25) by measuring metabolic\nutritional variables and cytokine levels.

Sarcopenic obesity occurs when there is a loss of muscle and gain of fat in the body. With this study, the investigators will explore how nutritional status at the beginning of the treatment can cause changes in your child's body fat compared to muscle in the body. The investigators will also look at how these changes can impact a child's cancer treatment, survival from treatment, and if there is any deterioration in health and nutrition status. The primary objective of this study is to establish the incidence of sarcopenic obesity, measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), among Indian children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).