The role of adipokines in the improvement of diabetic and cardiovascular risk factors within a 52-week weight-loss programme for obesity.
CONCLUSION: In this study, Optifast52®, a multidisciplinary programme focusing on diet and lifestyle changes, was found not only to affect a decrease in parameters associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but also to ameliorate in part the obesity-related imbalance of pro- and anti-inflammatory adipokines.
PMID: 31591082 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clin Med Res - Category: Research Authors: Hausmann J, Waechtershaeuser A, Behnken I, Aksan A, Blumenstein I, Brenner M, Loitsch SM, Stein J Tags: Obes Res Clin Pract Source Type: research
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