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The Impact of Abdominal Obesity Status on Cardiovascular Response to the Mediterranean Diet
- Source :
- Journal of Obesity, Vol 2012 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2012.
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Abstract
- We investigated the impact of abdominal obesity status on the cardiovascular response to a fully controlled 4-week isoenergetic Mediterranean diet (MedDiet). Thirty-eight abdominally obese individuals (waist circumference >102 cm in men and >88 cm in women) and thirty-one nonabdominally obese individuals were recruited and studied before and after the MedDiet. All analyses were adjusted for the slight decrease in body weight, which occurred during the MedDiet (mean: 0.9±1.2 kg). A group by time interaction was noted for waist circumference (P=0.02), abdominally obese subjects showing a significant decrease and nonabdominally obese subjects a nonsignificant increase (resp., −1.1 and +0.3%). The MedDiet resulted in decreases in total cholesterol, LDL-C, HDL-C, apolipoprotein B, A-1, and A-2, total cholesterol/HDL-C ratio, LDL-C/HDL-C ratio, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure (time effect: P
- Subjects :
- Internal medicine
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20900708 and 20900716
- Volume :
- 2012
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Journal of Obesity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.8ffb24871de7438195c555e6cad3990b
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/969124