All roads bring to Rome: a different way for predicting success in the therapy of obesity through psychological features.

Purpose: Obesity treatment based on lifestyle modifications is characterized by a high proportion of treatment failures. The study of predictors of success could be useful for a better definition of therapeutic needs in individual patients. Few studies have attempted a comprehensive assessment of psychological factors related with treatment response.

False and true pre-treatment predictors of weight loss in obese patients starting a program for lifestyle change.

Purpose: Weight loss treatment effectiveness and cost-effectiveness may be improved by the identification of patients who are more prone to participate and gain benefit from specific interventions. Aim of the present study is to identify easily available additional predictors of weight loss among data usually present in the medical records of obese/overweight patients attending an outpatient clinic for a non-pharmacological lifestyle change program.

Results: 268 patients, 74 men and 195 women (age 43.

Is there a practical way of predicting therapeutic success in type 2 diabetes on the basis of psychological features? Development and validation of the Psychological Predictors of Therapeutic success in Diabetes (PPTD) questionnaire.

Many psychiatric disorders and symptoms have been associated with impaired metabolic control in type 2 diabetes; several studies focused on non-pathological psychological features. Aims of this observational, longitudinal study are: the assessment of the impact of a wide range of psychological factors on metabolic control in type 2 diabetes; and the development and validation of a simple questionnaire to assess the impact of psychological factors on therapeutic success. To identify psychological factors interfering with attainment of glycemic targets, a prospective 1-year study was performed on a sample of 250 patients with type 2 diabetes.

Fit and motivated: outcome predictors in patients starting a program for lifestyle change.

Background: In previous pilot studies we have demonstrated that the Treatment Motivation and Readiness Test (TRE-MORE) is capable of predicting the outcome of obesity therapy and that a higher muscle mass (MM) is associated with a greater weight loss. Purposes of the present study were: to confirm the predictive value of TRE-MORE scores and MM, using a standardized non-pharmacologic intervention for weight loss; to explore the relationship between TRE-MORE and MM; to discriminate predictors of attendance from predictors of final therapeutic success.

Methods: A consecutive series of 331 patients was enrolled and addressed to a standardized treatment protocol.

Doses of insulin and its analogues and cancer occurrence in insulin-treated type 2 diabetic patients.

Objective: Recent epidemiological studies suggested that some insulin analogues could be associated with increased risk of cancer. The present study is aimed at assessing the long-term association of different insulin analogues with cancer incidence.

Research Design And Methods: A nested case-control study dataset was generated from the cohort study dataset (n = 1,340 insulin-treated diabetic outpatients) by sampling control subjects from the risk sets.