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Health-related quality of life in morbid obesity.
Karine Duval,Picard Marceau,Odette Lescelleur,Frédéric-Simon Hould,Simon Marceau,Simon Biron,Stéphane Lebel,Louis Pérusse,Yves Lacasse +8 more
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The impact of morbid obesity was more important in women than in men, and the areas of impairment were very similar in both groups, with the important difference that women ranked their dissatisfaction with physical appearance higher than men.Citations
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Sexuality and obesity, a gender perspective: results from French national random probability survey of sexual behaviours
Nathalie Bajos,Kaye Wellings,Caroline Laborde,Caroline Laborde,Caroline Laborde,Caroline Moreau,Caroline Moreau,Caroline Moreau +7 more
TL;DR: There is a link between BMI and sexual behaviour and adverse sexual health outcomes, with obese women less likely to access contraceptive healthcare services and having more unplanned pregnancies.
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Psychosocial and behavioral status of patients undergoing bariatric surgery: what to expect before and after surgery.
Thomas A. Wadden,David B. Sarwer,David B. Sarwer,Anthony N. Fabricatore,LaShanda Jones,Rebecca M. Stack,Noel S. Williams +6 more
TL;DR: The psychosocial status of extremely obese individuals who seek bariatric surgery is examined and changes in functioning that can be expected with surgically induced weight loss are described.
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Effects of lifestyle interventions that include a physical activity component in class II and III obese individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Aurélie Baillot,Ahmed J. Romain,Katherine Boisvert-Vigneault,Mélisa Audet,Jean-Patrice Baillargeon,Isabelle J. Dionne,Louis Valiquette,Claire Nour Abou Chakra,Antoine Avignon,Marie-France Langlois +9 more
TL;DR: Lifestyle interventions incorporating a PA component can improve weight and various cardiometabolic risk factors in class II and III obese individuals, however, further high quality trials are needed to confirm this evidence, especially beyond weight loss.
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Psychiatric Considerations of the Massive Weight Loss Patient
TL;DR: The psychosocial characteristics of individuals with extreme obesity who undergo bariatric surgery, as well as the changes in these traits that typically occur postoperatively are reviewed.
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Health and health-related quality of life: differences between men and women who seek gastric bypass surgery.
Ronette L. Kolotkin,Ronette L. Kolotkin,Ross D. Crosby,Richard E. Gress,Steven C. Hunt,Scott G. Engel,Ted D. Adams +6 more
TL;DR: Women's reduced HRQOL, particularly in self-esteem, sexual life, and physical functioning, and their greater rates of depression, might play a role in their decision to seek bariatric surgery.
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Clinical impact versus factor analysis for quality of life questionnaire construction
TL;DR: Two philosophically different methods for selecting items for a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire are compared, the impact method selects items that are most frequently perceived as important by patients whereas the psychometric method (factor analysis) selects items primarily according to their relationships with one another.
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Quality of life and overweight: The obesity related well-being (Orwell 97) Questionnaire
Edoardo Mannucci,Valdo Ricca,E. Barciulli,Milena di Bernardo,Rossana Travaglini,Pier Luigi Cabras,Carlo Maria Rotella +6 more
TL;DR: The Obesity Related Well-Being (ORWELL 97) questionnaire as mentioned in this paper was developed to examine the intensity and the subjective relevance of physical and psychosocial distress in obese patients.
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Health-related quality of life among obese persons seeking and not currently seeking treatment.
TL;DR: Although differences on sociodemographic and medical variables between the two groups may attenuate the obesity-HRQL relationship somewhat, obesity appears to have a pronounced impact on important dimensions of HRQL independent of whether or not the person is attempting to lose weight.
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Health-related quality of life in morbidly obese patients: effect of gastric bypass surgery.
Martina de Zwaan,Kathryn Lancaster,James E. Mitchell,L. Michael Howell,Nancy Monson,James L. Roerig,Ross D. Crosby +6 more
TL;DR: HRQoL was significantly better in postoperative gastric bypass patients in comparison to a sample of preoperative patients, however, HRQeL, specifically the physical domain of the SF-36, was more impaired in long-term follow-up patients compared with US norm values.
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Gender, Race, and Obesity-Related Quality of Life at Extreme Levels of Obesity
TL;DR: In general, white women reported the most QOL impairment, despite having significantly lower BMI than other race/gender groups, and the observed relationships between BMI and QOL were somewhat attenuated.