For patients with obesity, bariatric surgery might be a precious and crucial tool to bring additional benefits including comorbidities protection and life span extension. All patients with obesity should be engaged in a union consultation group to select a suitable treatment....
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All of the analyses were carried out in STATA version 17. Results Among 2,034 relevant primary studies, 194 articles were entered into the meta-analysis. the prevalence of MetS in Iran was assessed using various criteria. The overall pooled prevalence was (31%, 95% CI: 28–34%), with ...
Department of Surgery, Aman Hospital, Doha, Qatar Bassem Safadi Corresponding author Correspondence to Rodrigue Chemaly. Ethics declarations Ethical Approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national resea...
is of particular importance in this process. The hepatic pathway for fatty acid acquisition encompasses exogenous dietary intake, as well as de novo lipogenesis (DNL). Numerous studies have described that the fatty acids (FAs) are tightly regulated in tissue despite fluctuations in FFA intake. Cons...
Duration of diabetes at baseline was NR in the UKPDS Moderate for improved long-term health outcomes Most of the data are from UKPDS, conducted from 1977-1997; 4 of the included studies were from the UK; participants were predominantly White ...
A growing number of studies suggest that children in lower-income families in developed countries are par- ticularly vulnerable to becoming obese. The study explores the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on energy balance behaviours and adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD), in Greek ...
The 'rule of halves' has been applied to hypertension management, which suggests that half of hypertension may be detected, with half of these treated and half controlled,8 and some studies also suggest that hypertension may be less well controlled in obese patients.9–12 The growing obesity ...
in hepatocytes. Earlier studies have established that a reduction in the level of triglyceride lipase could effectively lower the risk of high-fat diet-induced MASH in mice [21]. While the majority of MASLD patients are obese adults, its incidence in leaner individuals is on the rise, leading...
Traditionally, AMI has been treated with open surgery. Over the past two decades, the rapid development of endovascular techniques has made this approach an important alternative for patients with occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA). Some studies have shown that endovascular therapy is ...