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Design: Randomized treatment control trial, double-blind, parallel, with two arms.
Sample: Ninety-six hospitalized women between 18 and 52 years will participate in this study. Those who agree to participate in the study and meet the eligibility criteria will be randomly allocated to one of the
Overweight/obesity is prevalent and associated with multiple adverse health outcomes. Moderating energy intake is one approach to lose or maintain body weight. To improve the probability of long-term adherence to an energy restricted diet, it is important to address the issue of appetite control.
The world health organisation has reported that over 220 million people suffer from diabetes worldwide and that by the year 2030, this number will be doubled. The WHO also reports that in 2004, about 3.4 million people died from high blood sugar. About 90% of all diabetes cases is due to type II
Fructose is a monosaccharide present naturally in foods as fruit, vegetables and honey. In fruit, vegetables and table sugar it is also present as a disaccharide (sucrose), where it is joined with glucose. The intake of fructose has increased dramatically in the last decades. The increase is
More than 1.6 million new cases of cancer are estimated in the United States in 2016, with almost 600,000 individuals dying from the disease. Prostate cancer alone is responsible for 180,000 new diagnoses per year and remains the most common new cancer diagnosis for men.
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1. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of ingesting a flavonoid-rich supplement on total urine polyphenol concentration and shifts in blood metabolites related to flavonoid intake in healthy but overweight/obese community-dwelling adults.
2. Secondary objectives are to
Diabetes mellitus type II is the consequence of insulin resistance and pancreatic beta cell failure resulting from a variety of metabolic insults, one of which is excess body adiposity/obesity. In the diabetic individual, hepatic gluconeogenesis may go uninhibited due to failure of the body's normal
1. Experimental Design: Approximately 50 male and female participants between the ages of 18 and 65 years, who were at high risk for cardiovascular disease but have not had a hospitalization due to cardiovascular disease, were recruited to participate for 12 weeks in this study. All familiarization
Study Procedures (Healthy and NAFLD/NASH Subjects) Screening (Week -2) Prior to initiation of the timeline, all potential study participants will be evaluated by a research nurse to obtain informed consent, a brief medical history, height, weight, body mass index, waist/hip circumference, vital
The overarching goal of this program project grant is the development of technologies that lead to new methods for studying, detecting, and treating type 2 diabetes, and their integration with hypothesis-driven diabetes research projects. The research will be led by an Administrative Core team (Core
Obese patients undergoing scheduled bariatric surgery underwent a cough challenge as part of their routine preoperative evaluation. Patients were classified as presenting OSAS if apnea-hypopnea index obtained from preoperative full-night polysomnography was greater than 5/hour. Cough threshold was