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Open AccessThe Role of Physical Exercise as a Therapeutic Tool to Improve Lipedema: A Consensus Statement from the Italian Society of Motor and Sports Sciences (Società Italiana di Scienze Motorie e Sportive, SISMeS) and the Italian Society of Phlebology (Società Italiana di Flebologia, SIF)
This consensus statement from the Italian Society of Motor and Sports Sciences (Società Italiana di Scienze Motorie e Sportive, SISMeS) and the Italian Society of Phlebology (Società Italiana di Flebologia, SIF) ...
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Open AccessSindrome dell’ovaio policistico: ruolo del glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) nella regolazione dell’asse ipotalamo-ipofisi-ovaio
L’obesità e l’insulino-resistenza associate alla sindrome dell’ovaio policistico (PCOS) hanno stimolato studi clinici sull’efficacia degli agonisti recettoriali del Glucagon-like Peptide 1 (GLP-1RA) nella perd...
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Open AccessThe Fat Kidney
The purpose of this review is to summarize the current evidence on the role of obesity in the development and progression of chronic kidney disease and the current evidence on nutritional, pharmacological, and...
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Phase angle as biomarker of inflammatory changes during very low-calorie ketogenic diet
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Disturbi del sonno nella donna in menopausa
I disturbi del sonno rappresentano uno dei principali sintomi della menopausa e sono causati da diversi fattori. Cambiamenti ormonali come la riduzione dei livelli di estrogeni e i conseguenti sintomi vasomoto...
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Open AccessChronotype and Sleep Quality in Obesity: How Do They Change After Menopause?
This review primarily provides an overview of the current evidence on chronotype (which reflects an individual’s preference for the timing of slee**, eating, and activity in a 24-h period) and sleep quality ...
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Open AccessPrader–Willi Syndrome in Adults: An Update On Nutritional Treatment and Pharmacological Approach
Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare and complex genetic disorder with multiple effects on the metabolic, endocrine, and neurological systems, as well as behavioral and intellectual difficulties. Despite adva...
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Evening chronotype is associated with severe NAFLD in obesity
Chronotype, i.e., the individual attitude to carry out the daily activities at a certain time of the day, has been reported to play a role in metabolic diseases. Thus, the aim of our study was to investigate t...
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Phase angle as an easy diagnostic tool for the nutritionist in the evaluation of inflammatory changes during the active stage of a very low-calorie ketogenic diet
Very low-calorie ketogenic diets (VLCKDs) have recently gained increasing interest for their anti-inflammatory effects. Phase angle (PhA), a bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)-derived measure used as a scr...
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From the Ketogenic Diet to the Mediterranean Diet: The Potential Dietary Therapy in Patients with Obesity after CoVID-19 Infection (Post CoVID Syndrome)
This review primarily examines the evidence for areas of consensus and on-going uncertainty or controversy about diet and physical exercise approaches for in the post-CoVID. We propose an ideal dietary and phy...
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Low-grade inflammation, CoVID-19, and obesity: clinical aspect and molecular insights in childhood and adulthood
The new 2019 coronavirus 19 disease (CoVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) poses a serious threat to health systems. As a global health problem, this pandemic poses a...
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Vitamin D deficiency: a potential risk factor for cancer in obesity?
Obesity is considered an abnormal or excessive accumulation of adipose tissue, due to a prolonged positive energy balance that arises when energy intake is greater than energy expenditure, leading to an increa...
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Spot-light on microbiota in obesity and cancer
Over the last few years, the complexity and diversity of gut microbiota within and across individuals has been detailed in relation to human health. Further, understanding of the bidirectional association betw...
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Obesity-related gut hormones and cancer: novel insight into the pathophysiology
The number of cancers attributed to obesity is increasing over time. The mechanisms classically implicated in cancer pathogenesis and progression in patients with obesity involve adiposity-related alteration o...
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Nutritional recommendations for CoVID-19 quarantine
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Sleep Apnea, Obesity, and Disturbed Glucose Homeostasis: Epidemiologic Evidence, Biologic Insights, and Therapeutic Strategies
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), obesity, and disturbed glucose homeostasis are usually considered distinct clinical condition, although they are tightly related to each other. The aim of our manuscript is to pr...
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Irritable bowel syndrome: a new therapeutic target when treating obesity?
There is accumulating evidence showing that obesity is due not merely to increased food intake, but could have a more complex pathophysiology possibly originating from the gut. Due to its microbiological, horm...
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From gut microbiota dysfunction to obesity: could short-chain fatty acids stop this dangerous course?
Study of the interactions between the gut microbiota and brain-gut axis represents a very appealing approach to increasing our knowledge about the mechanisms leading to obesity and obesity-related diseases. Th...
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Patient empowerment and the Mediterranean diet as a possible tool to tackle prediabetes associated with overweight or obesity: a pilot study
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of implementation of short-term patient empowerment as applied to Mediterranean diet (MD) adherence on metabolic and anthropometric parameters in predi...
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La nutrizione come strumento di prevenzione per l’insorgenza di cancro
