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Filter by:Before surgery, patients will fill the Beck anxiety, distress tolerance test and Pain katastrophizing test. Patients will be divided into two groups according to BMI> 30kg / m2 (Group A) and BMI <30kg / m2 (Group B). Compared to body weight, venous vascular pain of the groups will be compared.
Approximately 17% of US children have obesity resulting in significant childhood co-morbidities and increased lifetime risk of adult obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Guidelines recommend intensive lifestyle programs as first-line treatment, yet few pediatric practices are equipped to provide this. Clinical-community partnerships are well-positioned to address this care gap. This proposal aims to assess whether a community-delivered lifestyle program offered in adjunct to primary care obesity management is feasible, acceptable, effective, and easily implemented in a rural care setting. In this study, approximately 40 children aged 7-13 years old and their caregiver pairs will be recruited from a primary care pediatric clinic. Child-adult dyads will participate in a 24-week program that includes 2 phases, a 12-week usual care phase and a 12-week intervention phase. The intervention phase will include bi-weekly meetings of a community intensive lifestyle program which focuses on healthy diet, daily physical activity, self-esteem and support for individual and family behavior change. A mixed-methods approach using qualitative interviews and study questionnaires, combined with objective measures of adiposity and fitness will assess study outcomes.
Obesity is driven by genetic and environmental factors. Among the latter, diet is a most important one. The investigators refer to these combinations of genetic and dietary factors as 'gene-diet interactions.' Higher consumption of saturated fats (found mostly in foods of animal origin) has been associated with higher weight in people who were homozygotes for the minor allele at a genetic variant known as APOA2 -265 T>C (rs5082). In the current study, the investigators will seek to gain an understanding of the biological mechanisms driving this interaction. The investigators will select participants in three cohorts according to this genetic factor and conduct a series of molecular analyses (epigenetics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics). The analyses will identify epigenetic marks that are associated with saturated fat intake exclusively in subjects who carry this genetic factor. Moreover, the investigators will examine the association between epigenetic status and genotype at APOA2 and mRNA expression of the gene, and concentrations of metabolites in the blood. This study will increase the understanding of how genetics and diet act together to promote weight gain, and may eventually have implications for dietary recommendations that make use of genetic information.
To determine the effect of diet and lifestyle, particularly vegetarian diets on chronic degenerative disease outcomes in a cohort of Taiwanese Buddhists participants
The study is aimed at evaluating whether ultrasound pre-procedural scan with Accuro may reduce needle redirections when performing spinal injection in patients with BMI = or > 30 in orthopedic surgery
80 children aged 5-13, BMI≥85%, will be recruited to a program for the treatment of overweight children.The intervention group will use the app "Just Dance Now" and The control group will be exposed to the usual program without the app. Measurements will be performed at the beginning of the program, the end and 3 months after completion of the intervention.
The main purpose of this study is to determine the influence of obesity on the short term follow-up indicators of a polyvalent geriatric rehabilitation clinic after total knee arthroplasty. It is a retrospective, comparative study The secondary purposes are to explore the links between length of stay and short-term follow-up indicators of a polyvalent geriatric rehabilitation clinic after total knee arthroplasty.
Background: - Normal bacteria and other tiny organisms are found in healthy human mouths. These are called oral microbiota. It is unclear exactly how the oral microbiota may affect health. For example, if the microbial composition is abnormal, it may lead to mouth conditions like periodontitis. Researchers want to study how the microbiota changes over time. This can help them plan future disease studies. Objectives: - To see if and how oral microbiota change over time. Eligibility: - Forty adult employees of the National Cancer Institute Shady Grove. Design: - For 12 hours before the first visit, participants will not eat or drink (except water). They will not brush, floss, use mouthwash, chew gum, eat lozenges or candies, smoke cigarettes, or chew tobacco. - At the first visit, participants will: - Be given a saliva collector. They will spit 2 mL of saliva into it. - Fill out an online questionnaire. - Every 2 months, participants will visit the clinic and repeat visit 1. - The study ends after 1 year. Sponsoring Institute: National Cancer Institute
This study will compare changes in body composition (lean mass, fat, and bone)and parent ratings of quality of life in 5-19 Year Olds as a function of participation in one of four versions of the Good NEWS 4 Kids Program (GN4K).
The objective of this study is to explore the genetic basis of the influence of dairy product intake on body measures in children. The investigators assume that the effect of dairy products intake on children body measures is affected by genetic polymorphisms.