Intervention & Clinical Studies Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting

Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies

• Obesity paradox in people with type 2 diabetes - Sanjoy Paul
• ‘Systems biology – the next frontier in metabolic research’ - David James
• The good, the bad and the ugly; intermittent fasting and severe energy restriction in adolescents - Sarah Garnett
• Weight loss via the telephone – does it work? A systematic review and meta-analysis - Marina M Reeves
• Feasibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a telephone-based weight loss program delivered via a hospital outpatient setting  - Megan Whelan

Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies 

• Circadian drivers of poor mental and physical health - Ian Hickie
• Sleep apnoea in children - Karen Waters
• Sex hormones, body composition and cardiometabolic health - Bu B Yeap
• Exercise, strict physical inactivity (experimental bed-rest) and their effects on visceral adipose tissue and fat distribution - Daniel Belavy
• CPAP use, weight change and metabolic outcomes: Data from 3 randomised controlled trials - Camilla M Hoyos

• Trends in self-reported health related quality of life among obese individuals with age - John Dixon
• Effectiveness of current interventions in obese New Zealand children and adolescents - Yvonne C Anderson
• Whanau Pakari: perception versus reality – how active are obese New Zealand children? - Kris Moller
• RAFG - Relative Adult Fat Gain - Ted Arnold
• Motivators and barriers to engaging in healthy eating and physical activity in young adult men - Clare E Collins
• Obstetric and Gynaecologic care of women who are overweight or obese: A survey of practice. - Nicole Edge
• A ‘Western’ dietary pattern, adiposity and inflammation: pathways to depression and mental health problems in adolescents - Romy Gaillard
• Do ketogenic diets really suppress appetite? A systematic review and meta-analysis - Alice A Gibson
• Patterns of Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Before and Three Months After Bariatric Surgery - Juliana Gomes Zabatiero
• Barriers and Facilitators for Physical Activity in Adults before Bariatric Surgery - Juliana Gomes Zabatiero
• Weigh Forward: A clinical audit of weight management in Australian general practice - Robyn Hemmes
• Translation of Basic Science Research into Brief Opportunistic Intervention and Follow-up for Pragmatic Primary Care Weight Management - Anne-Thea McGill
• Efficacy of the Omega-3 Index in predicting NAFLD in overweight and obese adults: a pilot study - Helen Parker
• The neuro-endocrinology of eating - Hendrik Rensburg
• Dietitian Connect: a feasibility study to evaluate the addition of video consultations with a dietitian to a web-based weight loss program. - Megan E Rollo
• PREVIEW: PREVention of diabetes through lifestyle Intervention in Europe and around the World – Where are we now?   - Marta Silvestre
• Treating overweight and obese adults in General Practice – a systematic review - Elizabeth A Sturgiss
• Assessing the effectiveness of a lifestyle weight loss intervention on an obese outpatient population in New South Wales - Rebecca L Venchiarutti
• A qualitative study of maternal views on preschoolers’ dietary self-regulation and feeding strategies - Heidi J Bergmeier
• Supportive Sport Climate Increases Competence, Relatedness, Internalisation of Motivation, and Physical Activity in Overweight Children - Andreas Heißel
• Report of the first 50 patients attending the ACT public Obesity Management Service - Kristen Murray
• Development and Implementation of an Obesity Management Service in the ACT: A Preliminary Report - Kristen Murray
• The clinical obesity maintenance model - an evaluation - Jayanthi Raman
• Food "Micro-Intake" events: a common but underexplored aspect of ingestive behaviour in model animals - John R.B. Lighton
• Duodenal linoleic acid sensing lowers glucose production in rats and mice via a CCK-independent neuronal network - Brittany A Rasmussen
• The role of GH in Obesity - Hendrik Rensburg
• The role of rT3 in metabolism in obesity treatment - Hendrik Rensburg
• New integrated approach for whole room indirect calorimetry: Accuracy and usability - Russell Rising
• EMPOWER: The development and pilot-testing of an evidence-based weight loss mobile telephone app - Kylie Ball
• The effectiveness of whole-of-community interventions by socioeconomic position - Tara Boelsen-Robinson
• A comparison of the content of Australian supermarket catalogues and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating. - Adrian Cameron
• Dietary calcium, diary intakes and childhood overweight/obesity in Chinese children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study - Yanrong Chen
• Trends in childhood obesity prevalence according to socioeconomic position: A systematic review - Alexandra C Chung
• A review of eating and food-related difficulties for young people in out-of-home care and their possible association with unhealthy weight gain - Rachael Cox
• Identifying social influences on the implementation of canteen practices in primary schools - Tessa Delaney
• Cross-sectional association between eating behaviors and body composition among children and adolescents in South China - Ruonan Duan
• The association between community awareness of obesity-related factors in cancer risk and obesity-related outcomes; changes from 2004-2012 - Kerry A Ettridge
• One Local Government area, 180 health promoting schools, long day care and kindergartens - what it takes to deliver at scale - Chad Foulkes
• 67 workplaces, 26,690 employees and we are a quarter of the way there: Delivering health promoting workplaces at scale as part of a systems intervention - Chad Foulkes
• The role of GPs in preventing excessive gestational weight gain among obese women early in pregnancy - Lisa Y Gibson
• Jamie’s Ministry of Food  - Jessica Herbert
•   Comparison of body mass index (BMI), body adiposity index (BAI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as predictors of cardiovascular disease in an adult population in Singapore - Benjamin Chih Chiang Lam
• Obesity prevalence in a sample of low socioeconomic children: Cross sectional associations with physical activity, sedentary and eating behaviour - Jennifer Marks
• Measuring the ‘healthiness’ of food outlet types in Australian suburbs’ community food environment - Hamid Moayyed
• Healthy lifestyle behaviours and intentions in adolescents from Western Sydney - Vanessa A. Shrewsbury
• Scope and characteristics of obesity prevention initiatives in Australia 2013 - Elizabeth Waters

Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies

• What do the NHMRC and DAA guidelines tell us about the best dietary approach for weight loss? - Clare E Collins
• Physical activity levels and cognition in older adults at risk of cognitive decline - Kathryn Ellis
• HIIT and other novel exercise or nonsitting strategies: fact or fiction for the management of obesity? - Nathan Johnson
• Efficacy and safety of liraglutide 3.0 mg for weight management in overweight and obese adults: the SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes, a randomised, double-blind and placebo-controlled trial - Joseph Proietto
• Liraglutide 3.0 mg improves body weight and cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight or obese adults without diabetes: the SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled 56-week trial - Gary Wittert

• A Pre-post Pilot Study Of Weight4KIDS - A Health Professional E-learning Program For Paediatric Obesity Management - Shirley M Alexander
• Long term skeletal changes following different types of bariatric surgery - Malgorzata M Brzozowska
• Whanau Pakari: a multi-disciplinary intervention for obese children and adolescents - improved accessibility for Maori, but clear health disparities. - Tami L Cave
• One-year longitudinal obesity trends of rural Australian adolescents: preliminary results from the ARCHER study - Hoi Lun (Helen) Cheng
• How low do you need to go? Carbohydrate restriction for appetite suppression during low energy diets in overweight and obese adults: a sub-study of the PREVIEW Study Australia - Arpita Das
• Early weight loss in obese adolescents participating in a lifestyle intervention and weight loss at 24 months: The RESIST study - Megan L. Gow
• Does bariatric surgery work in public hospitals? - Natalie Lukas
• How effective was Curtin University’s Activity, Food and Attitudes Program at changing behaviours in overweight and obese adolescents? - Kyla Smith
• Bone loss post bariatric-surgery is better captured with QCT than DXA and delineates predominantly trabecular loss - Matthew Tan
• Muscle strength is reduced by an 8-week weight reducing diet in overweight and obese adults with pre-diabetes: a sub-study of the PREVIEW Study Australia - Jessica Zibellini