%0 Journal Article
%T The Impact of Abdominal Obesity Status on Cardiovascular Response to the Mediterranean Diet
%A Alexandra B¨¦dard
%A Sylvie Dodin
%A Louise Corneau
%A Simone Lemieux
%J Journal of Obesity
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/969124
%X We investigated the impact of abdominal obesity status on the cardiovascular response to a fully controlled 4-week isoenergetic Mediterranean diet (MedDiet). Thirty-eight abdominally obese individuals (waist circumference >102 cm in men and >88 cm in women) and thirty-one nonabdominally obese individuals were recruited and studied before and after the MedDiet. All analyses were adjusted for the slight decrease in body weight, which occurred during the MedDiet (mean:  kg). A group by time interaction was noted for waist circumference (), abdominally obese subjects showing a significant decrease and nonabdominally obese subjects a nonsignificant increase (resp., −1.1 and
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobes/2012/969124/