The incidence of obstructive sleep apnea has been underestimated in morbidly obese patients who present for evaluation for weight loss surgery. This retrospective study shows that the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea in this patient population is greater than 70 per cent and increases in incidence as the body mass index increases. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common comorbidity in obe...

BACKGROUND Obesity has been associated with low testosterone (T) in adult males and in pubertal boys. Therapy for hypogonadism with exogenous T may lead to testicular atrophy and later infertility. Only a few studies have demonstrated that the Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator (SERM) clomiphene citrate (CC), an estrogen receptor antagonist, increases T in obese hypogonadal men while prevent...

Aim – to study the features of eating behavior (EB) in children with different forms nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) - simple steatosis (SS) and steatohepatitis (NASH), compare obtained data without steatosis. 120 patients aged 7 16 years were examined, average age was (12.00 ± 2.56) years. The presence degree determined by transient elastography using a FibroScan®502Touch an assessmen...

BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a global threat with subsequent health problems among which and most important cardiovascular problems. It now claimed that adipokines secreted by adipose tissue are responsible for such consequences. Newly discovered chemerin apelin under investigation their link related co-morbidites. AIM: The aim of the present study was to assess serum levels in obese childr...

GOAL To study the interaction of obesity and age in patients with multiple spine surgeries. METHODS Data on the body mass index (BMI) of 956 patients were collected and classified into four groups: non-obese (BMI <30 kg/m(2)), obese-class I (BMI ≥30 kg/m(2)), obese-class II (BMI ≥35 kg/m(2)) and obese-class III (BMI ≥40 kg/m(2)). Patients' age was categorized into the following age groups: ≤4...

Obesity and abnormal nourishment are the biggest concerns of developed and developing societies. We analysed the nutritional status using Mini Nutrition Assessment (MNA) and correlated the findings with BMI, Waist – to – Hip (W/H) ratio in elderly population of Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka. Total of 221 elderly subjects above the age of 50 years (105 were males and 116 were females) w...

BACKGROUND Obesity in infancy and adolescence has acquired epidemic dimensions worldwide and is considered a risk factor for a number of disorders that can manifest at an early age, such as Metabolic Syndrome (MS). In this study, we evaluated overweight, obese, and extremely obese adolescents for the presence of MS, and studied the prevalence of single factors of the syndrome in this population...

Introduction Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) is associated with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) catabolism, but its serum concentration is not uniformly associated with cardiovascular disease in clinical studies. Obesity is linked with increased cardiovascular risk, but the effect of increased body weight and short-term weight loss on serum PCSK9 levels is not well studied. ...

BACKGROUND A worldwide increase in the prevalence of obesity has been observed in both developed and developing countries. Few studies have addressed the anaesthetic or perioperative implications of childhood obesity. METHODS Children aged 2-16 yr undergoing general surgery were classified using age- and sex-adjusted BMI. Patient characteristic, co-morbidity, and perioperative data were colle...