Publications by authors named "Ettore Brenna"
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- * A study involving 2004 hospitalized patients with obesity evaluated a 4-week multidisciplinary weight-loss intervention, revealing that 42.55% of initial SO patients improved their handgrip strength (HGS) and no longer met SO criteria at discharge.
- * The findings highlight that increases in HGS and phase angle (PhA) are important indicators of successful weight-loss interventions in SO patients, suggesting that focused strategies on these measures can help improve outcomes for this population.
: Sarcopenic obesity (SO) is the combination of excess fat, skeletal muscle and muscular strength/function deficit. The ESPEN/EASO have proposed new diagnostic criteria, but the SO prevalence in patients with severe obesity remains to be established. The aim of this study was to establish the SO prevalence in a large cohort of inpatients with obesity, considering sex, age, BMI, type, and number of concomitant diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhase angle (PhA) is a recently proposed marker of nutritional status in many clinical conditions. Its use in patients with obesity presents different critical concerns due to the higher variability of the two measured parameters (resistance, R, and reactance, Xc) that contribute to the determination of PhA. Controversial is the relation between PhA and BMI that might vary with graded levels of obesity due to the variation in fat and free fat mass.
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