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Changes in body weight and pulse: outcome events in overweight and obese subjects with cardiovascular disease in the SCOUT trial
The Sibutramine Cardiovascular OUTcomes (SCOUT) trial showed a significantly increased relative risk of nonfatal cardiovascular events, but not mortality, in overweight and obese subjects receiving long-term s...
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Women with severe obesity and relatively low bone mineral density have increased fracture risk
Among women with obesity, those with the lowest bone density have the highest fracture risk. The types of fractures include any fracture, fragility-type fractures (vertebra, hip, upper arm, forearm, and lower ...
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Changes in body weight and blood pressure: paradoxical outcome events in overweight and obese subjects with cardiovascular disease
The Sibutramine Cardiovascular OUTcomes (SCOUT) trial showed a significantly increased relative risk of nonfatal cardiovascular events, but not mortality, in overweight and obese subjects receiving long-term s...
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Association of anemia with the risk of cardiovascular adverse events in overweight/obese patients
Anemia is associated with increased cardiovascular risks. Obesity may cause anemia in several ways, for example, by low-grade inflammation and relative iron deficit. The outcomes associated with anemia in over...
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Erratum to: Relationship between HbA1c levels and risk of cardiovascular adverse outcomes and all-cause mortality in overweight and obese cardiovascular high-risk women and men with type 2 diabetes
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Relationship between HbA1c levels and risk of cardiovascular adverse outcomes and all-cause mortality in overweight and obese cardiovascular high-risk women and men with type 2 diabetes
The optimal HbA1c concentration for prevention of macrovascular complications and deaths in obese cardiovascular high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes remains to be established and was therefore studied in this...
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Effective weight management practice: a review of the lifestyle intervention evidence
Despite the existence of guidelines for obesity management, uncertainty remains as to what interventions comprise effective practice. This uncertainty could act as a barrier to busy health care professionals, ...
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Association between obesity and health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease
In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), obesity is paradoxically associated with better survival (the ‘obesity paradox’). Our objective was to determine whether this counterintuitive relationship exten...
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A proposed clinical staging system for obesity
Current classifications of obesity based on body mass index, waist circumference and other anthropometric measures, although useful for population studies, have important limitations when applied to individual...
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Salt-sensitive men show reduced heart rate variability, lower norepinephrine and enhanced cortisol during mental stress
Salt sensitivity (SS) represents a risk factor for essential hypertension, which has been related to enhanced cardiovascular stress reactivity possibly mediated by increased noradrenergic susceptibility. We in...
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Chondrocyte Deformation Induces Mitochondrial Distortion and Heterogeneous Intracellular Strain Fields
Chondrocyte mechanotransduction is poorly understood but may involve cell deformation and associated distortion of intracellular structures and organelles. This study quantifies the intracellular displacement ...
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The Third International Symposium on Obesity and Hypertension ISOH'03: ‘Genetics and Molecular Mechanisms’ (October 23–25, 2003, Berlin Germany)
The Third International Symposium on Obesity and Hypertension (ISOH'03) was held on 23–25, October 2003 at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Germany. The meeting, which consisted l...
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Regulating adiponectin: of flax and flux
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Influence of Sibutramine on blood pressure: evidence from placebo-controlled trials
Sibutramine, a serotonin and norepinephrine transporter inhibitor, is widely used as an adjunctive obesity treatment. There have been concerns that norepinephrine reuptake inhibition with sibutramine could exa...
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Obesity, hypertension and insulin resistance
Being overweight or obese has become highly prevalent in Western countries and are rapidly reaching epidemic proportions in the develo** world. Obesity-related disorders, such as hypertension and diabetes, a...
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Recognition and management of overweight and obesity in primary care in Germany
BACKGROUND: In contrast to the well-documented high prevalence of overweight and obesity in the general population, the prevalence, recognition rates and management by primary care physicians—as the core gatekeep...
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Moxonidine in the treatment of overweight and obese patients with the metabolic syndrome: a postmarketing surveillance study
Moxonidine is a centrally active imidazoline receptor agonist that effectively lowers blood pressure and has been shown to have beneficial effects on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. We assessed the efficacy...
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Patterns of antihypertensive drug utilization in primary care
In the treatment of hypertension, physicians’ attitudes and practice patterns are receiving increased attention as contributors to poor blood pressure (BP) control. Thus, current use of antihypertensive drugs ...
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Weitere Risikofaktoren für kardiovaskuläre Komplikationen
Unter anderem durch die Procam-und die Framingham- Studie wurde nachgewiesen, dass neben der Hypertonie auch die Dyslipoproteinämie ein kardiovaskulärer Risikofaktor 1. Ordnung ist. Beide Risikofaktoren haben ...
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Epidemiologische, genetische und therapeutische Aspekte der Adipositas