Published in Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
There is an increasing number of people who convert to a plant-based diet. The desire for health benefits, including weight management, is often a contributing factor behind this dietary choice. The purpose of this review was to evaluate intervention studies assessing the effects of different plant-based diets on body mass index and weight. A liter...
Published in Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary Over the last decades, many genetic tools have been developed in order to improve our knowledge and understanding of the links between physiology and genetics. In our research, European Sea Bass was selected in order to study stress response physiological indicators in relation to growth and disease resistance. Therefore, DNA samples...
Published in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Malnutrition is a common clinical concern among children in low-income communities affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We examined the effect of a community-based nutritional intervention on anthropometric and clinical outcomes of children of women living with HIV in rural India. We assigned women living with HIV and their child (oldest...
Published in Nutrients
Athletes use different combinations of weight loss methods during competition preparation. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize pre-competition weight loss models, which describe these combinations. The second aim was to determine if any existing model pose a higher risk of severe dehydration and whether any of the models could be...
Published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Body weight variability (BWV) is common in the general population and may act as a risk factor for obesity or diseases. The correct identification of these patterns may have prognostic or predictive value in clinical and research settings. With advancements in technology allowing for the frequent collection of body weight data from elect...
Published in Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI
Simple Summary The feed consumption and feed efficiency, body weight, egg weight, and rate of lay of the hen, as well as the albumen, yolk, and shell characteristics of the egg, are important measures of productivity in the layer industry. While these data are easily collected on a flock basis, there is little information on the extent of variation...
Abstract Three districts viz. Lower Dir, Swat and Shangla in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, were surveyed for the collection of Pteropus vampyrus (the Indian flying fox) in Malakand division, the north western region of Pakistan from February to November 2018. A total of 35 specimens were captured. Out of the examined specimens 22 were found to be in...
Published in Veterinary Sciences
Due to the interest in using probiotic bacteria in poultry production, this research was focused on evaluating the effects of Lactobacillus fermentum Biocenol CCM 7514 administration on body weight gain and cytokine gene expression in chickens challenged with Campylobacter jejuni . One-hundred and eight 1-day old COBB 500 broiler chickens were equa...
Published in Nutrients
Long-chain ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are fundamental biocomponents of lipids and cell membranes. They are involved in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and they are able to exert anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective actions. Thanks to their potential beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, metabolic axis and body comp...
Published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
Many patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) do not achieve the glycemic target goal with insulin treatment. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of add-on to insulin therapy in patients with T1D. We conducted direct and indirect network meta-analyses using Bayesian models and ranked hypoglycemic agents via mixed treatment compar...
