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Trial reportMedicine2018

Regaining body weight after weight reduction further increases pulse wave velocity in obese men with metabolic syndrome.

Kae-Woei Liang, Wen-Jane Lee, I-Te Lee, Shih-Yi Lin, Jun-Sing Wang, Wen-Lieng Lee, Wayne H-H Sheu

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Trial report in Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Kae-Woei LiangCardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung.
Wen-Jane LeeDepartment of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
I-Te LeeCardiovascular Research Center, Department of Medicine, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei.
Shih-Yi LinCardiovascular Research Center, Department of Medicine, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei.
Jun-Sing WangCardiovascular Research Center, Department of Medicine, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei.
Wen-Lieng LeeCardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung.
Wayne H-H SheuCardiovascular Research Center, Department of Medicine, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei.
Cardiovascular Research Center · BRNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWTaipei Veterans General Hospital · TWTaichung Veterans General Hospital · TW

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subjects with metabolic syndrome (MetS) or obesity have worse arterial stiffness. However, there have been no studies addressing time-sequential changes in pulse wave velocity (PWV) after weight loss and then regaining weight in obese non-diabetic men with MetS.We prospectively enrolled 40 obese, non-diabetic men with MetS undergoing a 3-month weight reduction program. Another 26 lean and healthy men were recruited for comparisons. Oral glucose tolerance test and brachial ankle (ba) PWV were assessed in study subjects. Eighteen obese non-diabetic MetS and 15 lean control subjects had follow-ups at the 60th month.The body weight of obese MetS decreased from 94.8 ± 7.6 to 86.1 ± 9.0 (N = 18, P < .001) after a 3-month weight reduction program but regained gradually thereafter to 93.6 ± 11.6 kg at the 60th month (P < .001 versus 3rd month). baPWV decreased after weight loss slightly (P = .240) while weight regain significantly increased the baPWV (from 3rd month, 1358 ± 168 to 60th month 1539 ± 264 cm/sec, P < .001). Systolic and diastolic blood pressure increments correlated with the increment of baPWV after weight regain. At the 60th month, lean controls (N = 15) had increases in body weight while their baPWV increased non-significantly. The increments of baPWV after weight regain in obese MetS were significantly higher than the increment of baPWV in lean controls after weight gain.In conclusion, regaining body weight after weight reduction worsened arterial stiffness with significant increase of baPWV in obese non-diabetic MetS.

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AdultAnkle Brachial IndexBlood PressureHumansMaleMetabolic SyndromeObesityProspective StudiesPulse Wave AnalysisTreatment OutcomeVascular StiffnessWeight GainWeight LossWeight Reduction Programs

Identifiers

PMID30290684
PMCPMC6200464
OpenAlexW2895142122

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