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..Our results also suggest that the mechanisms controlling baseline levels of cortisol and SHBG differ from those influencing their responses to energy deficit induced by VLCD...

..In contrast, parental history of obesity did not affect RMR in severely obese individuals...

..To assess the genetic contribution to determinants of therapeutic weight loss in obese female identical twins...

..8 % of the variability in weight loss. Psychobehavioral factors (items of the Eating Inventory, Beck Depression score) did not contribute to weight change induced by a well-controlled short-term weight reduction program...

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..Nevertheless, only female non-carriers showed a significant decrease in the hunger score...

..To study the relationships between the Eating Inventory (EI) factors (restraint, disinhibition and hunger), body adiposity and prevalence of selected diseases in a quota sample of Czech adults...

..The results suggest that low doses of n-3 fatty acid enrichment can help to avoid unfavorable changes in fatty acid composition in serum lipids after a short-term weight-reducing regimen...

..The mechanisms controlling baseline levels of cortisol and SHBG apparently differ from those controlling their responses to energy restriction...

..5-year follow-up...

..Body composition measured by bioimpedance demonstrated that added calcium leads to preservation of fat-free mass. Nevertheless, a greater loss of fat-free mass in the placebo group might be partly due to a greater loss of water...

..It is believed that an elucidation of the genetic component in the prognosis of weight management could assist in the development of more effective and individually tailored therapeutic strategies...

..595, p<0.008). The results suggest that long chain n-3 PUFA enhance weight loss in obese females treated by VLCD. Docosahexaenoate (22:6n-3) seems to be the active component...

..Of particular note were the consistent IPRs for n-3 fatty acids despite dietary stress, indicating that the conservation and distribution of this EFA family are subject to considerable genetic variance in humans...

..In group A in-patient treatment was significantly more often used in men. The in-patient treatment promotes the compliance with the therapeutic regimen in women significantly more effectively than in men...

..05). In conclusion, we demonstrated in healthy young women that plasma obestatin concentrations decrease similarly to ghrelin after a high-carbohydrate breakfast...

..Lower plasma obestatin levels in obese women compared to normal weight and anorectic women as well as increased ghrelin to obestatin ratio in anorectic women might play a role in body weight regulation in these pathologies...

..The possible influence of some genetic factors on weight reduction or maintenance following conservative and/or surgical treatment was studied in 14 pairs of obese female monozygotic twins...

..The impact of changes in psychobehavioral and nutritional markers observed after 4 and 12 months of treatment on BMI changes was also investigated...

..The fT3/fT4 ratio, reflecting deiodinase activity, was inversely related to age and positively related to BMI in both genders, while the highly significant negative correlation between CI and fT3/fT4 ratio was specific for women...

..Similar tendency was evident in the control group. This indicates possible involvement of the A-3826G polymorphism in the regulation of body composition...

..The only exception concerns leptin, which is significantly related to the subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue area...

..There was a specific effort to develop clinical guidelines, which will reflect current knowledge, expertise and evidence based data on morbid obesity treatment...

..The aim of our study was to analyse activities of mitochondrial enzymes cytochrome c oxidase (COX) and citrate synthase (CS) in isolated lymphocytes of obese and normal-weight subjects...

..Several studies associated higher protein intake in postnatal period with the earlier "adiposity rebound" and the higher BMI in later life...

..The article gives a short review of the recent knowledge together with our own experience in the field of study of the genetic background of polygenic diseases...

..Recently a role of consumption of calcium, phosphate and vitamin A in the body weight regulation and weight management has been also studied...

..The paper is aimed to reveal correlations between ultrasound measurement of intraabdominal depth (IAAT) and selected anthropometric and biochemical parameters in childhood...

..Results of the authors' studies on the effect of calorie restriction on gene expression in adipose tissue are presented...

..9 kg and an important weight loss by 5% have reached nearly 95% of patients. The treatment was well tolerated and no significant side effects have been indicated...

..CONCLUSION: Our pilot study does not confirm the influence of Trp64Arg mutation in heterozygous carriers on insulin resistance, energy metabolism and lipid spectrum...