This study consists in a 12-week clinical interdisciplinary weight loss therapy, with endocrinologist, nutritionist, psychologist and exercise physiologist to evaluate the effects of clinical interdisciplinary therapy associated to use the eletronic means on inflammatory biomarkers and metabolic alterations in women with obesity.
The present study was composed by a sample of obese women (20 to 45 years old), recruited through advertisements in the media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television and social media - Twitter®, Facebook® and Instagram®). The volunteers lived in the city of São Paulo or nearby, so they could attend monthly the University on the days of the clinical, nutritional, psychological and exercise evaluations, counseling, educational sessions and motivational strategies supporting adherence. To complete the Education Behaviors Program the volunteers follow weekly the instructions found in the Platform #12Semanas®. All participants met the inclusion criteria for the obesity profile according to the World Health Organization (WHO), presenting Body Mass Index (BMI) values above 30 kg/m². Patients with any pathology that could compromise the results of the study (heart disease, musculoskeletal deformities, diseases related to the immune system, genetic, metabolic or endocrine diseases, identified by the physician) were not included in the study. Anthropometric measures, body composition by bio-impedance and bood samples were collected to serum analysis.
