ArticleDiseases (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Lifetime Weight Cycling and Central Fat Distribution in Females With Obesity: A Brief Report.
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- Adaptive thermogenesis driving catch-up fat during weight regain: a role for skeletal muscle hypothyroidism and a risk for sarcopenic obesity.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
- Weight cycling and its effects on muscle mass, sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
- Sex Specificities in the Association Between Diet, Physical Activity, and Body Composition Among the Elderly: A Cross-Sectional Study in Florence, Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- The Impact of Weight Cycling on Health and Obesity.Metabolites · 2024Review
- Development of an Easy-to-Use Prediction Equation for Body Fat Percentage Based on BMI in Overweight and Obese Lebanese Adults.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Weight cycling (WC) is a common phenomenon in patients with obesity, however, its consequence on body composition has not yet been fully understood. Therefore, we aimed to determine whether multiple WC can negatively affect the latter, especially in terms of body fat distribution in female adults seeking treatment that are overweight or obese. Body composition was obtained using a segmental body composition analyser (MC-780MA, Tanita Corp., Tokyo, Japan) in 125 adult females who had been referred to the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the Beirut Arab University (Lebanon). WC was defined as intentional weight loss of ≥3 kg followed by involuntary weight regain of ≥3 kg, and participants were categorized as WC if they had experienced ≥2 cycles. Ninety of the 125 participants met the criteria for WC and displayed a higher total and trunk fat mass than those without WC. This was confirmed through linear regression analysis, showing that multiple WC were associated with increased fat mass (FM) by nearly 4.2 kg (β = 4.23, 95%CI: 0.81-7.65,
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