exercise and muscle very important to maintaining weight loss long-term. Calorie restriction results in muscle mass loss and this will impair the ability to maintain weight loss long term
Men with hypogonadism, low T, Testosterone therapy reduced IL-1beta, TNF-alph, and CRP. In addition, BMI and waist circumference was reduced. Leptin and insulin decreased as well.
we need to get away from expert opinion statements like this. Not that their conclusions are incorrect; but it promotes laziness among physicians. We physicians need to take control over the data by which we practice medicine and the only way we can do that is to read it.
Serum ferritin levels correlate with total body iron storage and systemic inflammation
The level of serum ferritin, an acute phase protein, is increased in an inflammatory environment
Previous studies have reported that elevated serum ferritin levels are associated with insulin resistance syndrome, hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, and metabolic syndrome as risk factors of CKD
elevated serum ferritin levels in hemodialysis patients predict higher mortality