The impact of obesity on skin disease and epidermal permeability barrier status.

Background: Obese subjects frequently show skin diseases. However, less attention has been paid to the impact of obesity on skin disorders until now.

Objective: The purposes of this study are: to highlight the incidence of some dermatoses in obese subjects and to study the water barrier function of the obese skin using transepidermal water loss (TEWL).

Role of dietary intervention and nutritional follow-up in heart transplant recipients.

Background: Obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus are common features after heart transplantation and they lead to coronary artery disease and graft loss.

Aim: To determine the effects of a dietary intervention on nutritional status and metabolic outcome of two groups enrolled during or after the first year from the transplant.

Methods: Forty two subjects (mean age 51.

Role of dietary intervention on metabolic abnormalities and nutritional status after renal transplantation.

Background: In these last years, several traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, like obesity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension and post-transplant diabetes mellitus have been also identified as important non-immunological risk factors leading to the development of chronic allograft nephropathy, the first cause of graft loss in transplanted patients. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of a 12-month dietary regimen on the nutritional status and metabolic outcome of renal transplant recipients in the first post-transplant year.

Methods: Forty-six cadaver-donor renal transplant recipients (mean age 40.

Bioelectrical impedance analysis and age-related differences of body composition in the elderly.

Background And Aim: Significant changes in body composition that have important health related effects may occur in the elderly. In this study, we evaluated the bioelectrical characteristics in a large group of apparently healthy Caucasian men in the age range 50-80 years, as a function of age and body mass index.

Methods: We studied 315 men with ages ranging from 50 to 80 years.

Body mass index and bioelectrical vector distribution in 8-year-old children.

Objective: To describe bioelectrical impedance vector distribution in relation to BMI (body mass index; body weight/stature(2)) in a population of healthy children in order to detect possible changes in body composition status.

Design: Observational study involving 464 healthy 8-year-old children. The subjects were divided into three groups based on their BMI: 218 normal weight (NW) children with BMI<18.