C D Sjöström

..However, it is not known what degree of weight loss is required to improve risk factors over a more extended period of time or how ageing and secular trends per se are influencing risk factors during long-term follow-up...

..The Swedish obese subjects (SOS) study offers a unique possibility for investigating the effects of weight loss as compared with weight stability in obese subjects over a long period of time...

..Pulse pressure (PP) is an independent risk factor of cardiovascular mortality. We now examine the development of PP in the obese and whether it can be modified by weight-reducing gastric surgery...

..61 to 1.67). A differentiated risk factor response was identified: a maintained weight reduction of 16% strongly counteracted the development of diabetes over 8 years but showed no long-term effect on the incidence of hypertension...

..To assess variables of body composition and identify their correlates in a group of individuals studied from adolescence to early adulthood...

..To examine trends and effects of weight loss treatment on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in the severely obese over 10 years...

..The dual aim of this study is to document characteristics of leptin after long-term storage, and to describe its relation to body weight, from birth to old age, in an ongoing prospective study...

..Bariatric surgery for severe obesity is associated with long-term weight loss, improved risk factors and decreased overall mortality...

..Another objective was to examine if secular changes in adipose tissue distribution occurred during the sampling period, 1994-1999...

..This includes a reduction in abdominal/visceral obesity, an improved insulin sensitivity, and favorable effects on lipoprotein metabolism and diastolic blood pressure...

..No non-surgical treatment available today can achieve such results, not even over 2 years. Surgical treatment for obesity needs to become much more common, particularly in obese patients with metabolic disturbances...

..In the present study of patients with severe obesity, we investigated the effects of surgically induced weight loss on cardiorespiratory symptoms and leisure-time physical activity...

..05). Our findings suggest that obese patients have increased sympathetic activity and a withdrawal of vagal activity and that these autonomic disturbances improve after weight loss...

..It is concluded that during early recovery from hyperthyroidism, priority is given to the replenishment of skeletal muscles and ip AT, whereas sc AT is increased at a later stage...

..To investigate the extent of carotid artery atherosclerosis in obese subjects and to examine the possible effects of weight loss on atherosclerotic development...

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..The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy and safety of topiramate as an adjunct to diet and exercise in drug-naive, obese subjects with type 2 diabetes...

..To evaluate the construct validity of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) in obese men and women...

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..if OP scores differed by gender and weight category; (3). if OP scores are inversely related to mental well-being; (4). if weight reduction in the obese is accompanied by improvements in psychosocial functioning (OP)...

..To analyse sick leave and disability pension among surgically and conventionally treated obese patients...

..We also wanted to identify obesity-related distress and explore the effect of coping on distress. Thirdly, we wanted to investigate differences in coping and distress related to choice of surgery or conventional treatment...

..Additional or secondary decompression is rarely indicated if these fractures are treated early and by experienced surgeons. Burst Type B fractures in patients older versus younger than 40 years of age differ in many respects...

..This opens the possibility that angiotensinogen-derived peptides, produced in adipose tissue itself, may affect adipogenesis and play a role in the pathogenesis of obesity...