BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the impact of a health psychology-led bariatric rehabilitation service (BRS) on patient weight loss following bariatric surgery at 1 year. METHODS A single-site open-randomised parallel group control trial based at St. Richard's Hospital in Chichester in the UK. Patients (n = 162) were recruited immediately prior to Roux-en-Y gastric ...

and Applied Analysis 3 where xi k , i 1, 2 stand for the density of the prey and the predator at time k, respectively. ui k , i 1, 2 are the control variables at time k. h2 is a positive constant, denoting the constant of capturing half-saturation. In this paper, we are concerned with the effects of the almost periodicity of ecological and environmental parameters and time delays on the global ...

BACKGROUND In a 2-y intervention targeting increased physical activity and healthy eating in primary school children, the adjusted body mass index (BMI) z score was 0.26 units (95% CI: 0.21, 0.32) lower in intervention than in control children. Few obesity prevention initiatives in children have undertaken follow-up analyses. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine whether differences in BMI...

Maternal energy requirements increase during pregnancy but the magnitude of this increment is unknown among adolescents. We determined the effects of maternal age and weight status on adjustments in gestational weight gain, resting energy expenditure (REE), and growth among adolescents. Weight, and growth rates of pregnant adolescents (PA)#17 y during late pregnancy were compared with changes i...

BACKGROUND Reproduction has been identified as an important factor for long-term weight gain among women. A previous efficacy trial has successfully produced postpartum weight loss; however, the effectiveness of this intervention needs to be established. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to evaluate the short- and long-term effectiveness of a diet behavior modification treatment to produce we...

Maternal energy requirements increase during pregnancy but the magnitude of this increment is unknown among adolescents. We determined the effects of maternal age and weight status on adjustments in gestational weight gain, resting energy expenditure (REE), and growth among adolescents. Weight, and growth rates of pregnant adolescents (PA) < or =17 y during late pregnancy were compared with cha...

BACKGROUND Various nutritional assessment tools are available to assess adult undernutrition, but few are practical in poorly served areas of low-income countries. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the relation between midupper arm circumference (MUAC), weight, body mass index (BMI), and clinical assessment for edema in predicting mortality in adults with severe acute undernutrition. DE...

BACKGROUND We tested the hypothesis that the amount of weight lost after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) correlates with plasma ghrelin levels. METHODS 36 morbidly obese patients were studied 3 years after RYGBP (6 men, 30 women) with mean initial BMI 51 kg/m2 and 8 healthy controls (2 men, 6 women) with mean BMI 25 kg/m2. Subjects consumed a light breakfast, and the first blood sample was d...

background: vitrification has proven to be more effective than slow freezing methods to cryopreserve mammalian oocytes. the objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of vitrification on immature and in vitro matured, denuded and cumulus compact goat oocytes and their subsequent fertilization. methods: oocytes were either cryopreserved as immature cumulus compact (imcc) (n=98 exp 1; ...

BACKGROUND Several studies reported inverse associations between birth weight and central adiposity in adults. However, few studies investigated the contributions of different abdominal fat compartments. OBJECTIVE We examined associations between birth weight and adult visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat in the population-based Fenland study. DESIGN A total of 1092 adults (437 men and 6...