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Filter by:Patients referred to Calgary's Alberta Hip & Knee Clinic, while awaiting consultation with an orthopedic surgeon for hip or knee osteoarthritis, will be offered the opportunity to participate in a dietary counseling program with the goal of attaining weight loss prior to surgery. Those patients interested in participating in the program will be offered the opportunity to participate in the research trial.
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effectiveness of nutrition tools to support weight loss among obese individuals. All participation will be based online and there will be no in-person visits. Participants will be given nutrition support tools for 6 months. Participants will be asked to report their weight and diet at the start of the study, and every month for 6 months during the study period. Participants will additionally be asked to report weight and diet at 12 months, 18 months, and 24 months after the start of the study. Total study duration will be 2 years.
Patients will be randomized into 2 groups: - G1: Patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy as bariatric procedure and receiving pre- and postoperative probiotics - G2: Patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy as bariatric procedure and not receiving pre- or postoperative probiotics Weight loss will be assessed 1 year after surgery
In the United States, the most significant risk factors for endometrial cancer (and EIN) are obesity and metabolic syndrome, given their high prevalence in this population. Given the high survival rate in early stage endometrial cancer, these patients, specifically those that are obese and have metabolic syndrome, are more likely to die of other causes. By treating an obese patient's endometrial cancer, one cause of death may be prevented but an important opportunity is missed to improve overall survival after cancer treatment. Concurrent laparoscopic hysterectomy and weight loss surgery is not an experimental procedure. This combined procedure has successfully been performed at our institution numerous times but there is a lack of data describing clinical outcomes and ideal patient selection. The goal of this study is to assess the feasibility of an expedited referral process for the obese endometrial cancer or EIN patient from her gynecologic oncologist to the Brigham Center for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery. Secondary outcomes will include short-term and long-term obesity-related outcomes (i.e., better diabetes control, lowered cholesterol, lowered baseline blood pressure) as well as whether quality of life is improved post-operatively compared to preoperatively in concurrent surgery.
this study aim to evaluate the role of autologous augmentation for buttock contouring and analyze different aethetic gluteal deformity
Obesity is highlighted, pointed as a disease that has been increasingly affecting individuals and becoming an epidemic in recent decades, but auriculotherapy has been shown to contribute to the treatment of this disease.The objective of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of auriculotherapy associated with dietary education in reducing weight in obese patients. This is a simple-blind Randomized Clinical Trial.
This study is designed to look at the impact that support and motivation has on patients with Atrial Fibrillation's ability to lose weight and maintain this. We believe that weight loss has a positive impact on the reduction of symptoms of atrial fibrillation and can decrease the likelihood of the arrhythmia returning following cardio version. This study is designed for patients who have a diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation and have a Body Mass Index greater than 27. In the study, we plan to provide support and motivation to patients with atrial fibrillation to encourage weight loss. There are several weight loss strategies available to follow. Information will be provided about each strategy to encourage informed choices. If the initial strategy chosen is not working, this can be change to a more suitable one as required. Follow up will be by telephone at 2 and 4 weeks then every month thereafter where you will be asked your weight and to clarify the weight loss strategy you are following. You will be seen at 6 and 12 months where you will have an ECG, BP check and your weight measured. A final telephone assessment will take place at 24 months. We hope that the research will in the future help patients with Atrial Fibrillation manage and maintain their weight loss to improve their symptoms and prevent recurrence of the arrhythmia. The results of this study could potentially change practice in our centre by providing more structured weight loss clinics for patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Increasing evidence suggests that non-communicable diseases such as in particular obesity and its associated metabolic diseases are inherited from parents to children throughout several generations by epigenetic mechanisms. Thus, this environmental stress would induce epigenetic modification in the germ line that once transmitted and maintained in the progeny would induce the development of the parental pathologies. Considering the increasing prevalence of these pathologies worldwide, we urgently need to understand this process in human. Based on published and unpublished data demonstrating that sperm RNAs are vectors of epigenetic inheritance of obesity mouse model, the investigative team hypothesizes that epitranscriptome of obese men play a central role in the paternal epigenetic inheritance of obesity and its associated metabolic diseases as epigenetic vectors in this process. To validate this hypothesis, the investigative team will use sperm from non-obese and obese men taken before and after surgery weight loss. Thanks to these cohorts, they propose to: (i) compare the epitranscriptome profiles of non-obese and obese men to identify the RNAs molecules which will be either qualitatively or quantitatively epigenetically modulated by obesity; (ii) compare the epitranscriptome profiles of obese men before and after surgery-weight loss to assess the reversibility of the newly acquired RNA modifications. Giving some answers to this central question will provide not only some clues about the molecular mechanisms involved in this process, elements which might be crucial to stop the spread of this disorder, but will also allow the identification of obese-susceptibility loci which expression may be modulate by environmental factors and consequently able to transmit the disease.
Patients will be randomized into 2 groups: - Group 1:Patients undergoing PENS T6, who also received Probiotics, during 10 weeks. - Group 2: Patients undergoing PENS T6 during 10 weeks. They will not received Probiotics Weight loss after 10 weeks of treatmente will be assessed.
A Roux-en-Y gastric bypass will be performed in all the cases. Patients will be randomized according the limb lengths: - Group 1: Alimentary limb (AL) 150cm and biliopancreatic limb (BPL) 100cm - Group 2: AL 100cm and BPL 150cm Weight loss will be evaluated 1 year after surgery