Obesity
New findings from McMaster University describe advances in obesity
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 29th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Obesity, "We sought to evaluate the effect of weight loss on echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness, as index of visceral adiposity, and whether epicardial fat change after the weight loss can be proportionally different from overall body weight changes and related to cardiac parameters changes in severely obese subjects. This was an interventional study in 20 severely obese subjects (12 women, 8 men, BMI 45 +/- 5 kg/m(2), 35 +/- 10 years) who underwent 6-month very low calorie diet weight loss program."
"Baseline and after 6-month weight loss anthropometrics, echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness,...
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