Activenduty dependents, especially dependent children,nhave shocking statistics related to the increasednnumbers of overweight individuals. The retirednpopulation, with military veterans, also facesnunique challenges. This column will addressnsome of these concerns.Laurie D. McGinley, RN, MS, CNS-BC,...
Das has conducted several clinical trials involving lifestyle interventions for targeting the obesity epidemic and attenuating age-related changes. These studies have included employees at worksites, hard-to-reach segments of the general population, military families, and people from around the world ...
This is the first veteran cohort study in Chinese military. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death globally, contributing to more than 17 million deaths in 2017, of which mortality from CHD is the most prevalent[1]. The morbidity of CHD in the United States is high, ...
Metabolically healthy obesity and physical fitness in military males in the CHIEF study Article Open access 27 April 2021 Independent and joint associations of estimated cardiorespiratory fitness and its dynamic changes and obesity with the risk of hypertension: A prospective cohort Article 10 April...
This cohort study examines the associations of adolescent health-related physical fitness with future work ability among individuals in Finland.
Dr Kullgren reported receiving grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Donaghue Foundation, the Healthwell Foundation, the State of Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and the Michigan ...
Fresh from the people behind New You Boot Camp – the most successful military style weight loss boot camp programme running in Europe – Coastal Boot Camp was developed due to customer demand for a boot camp that offers the same great results as the original programme but with more out...
Obesity and metabolic disorders have been associated with poor outcomes in non-Mediterranean breast cancer (BC) patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic potential of anthropometric variables in patients with early BC living in Southern Mediterranean region of Italy. We enro...
In the United States, armed conflict (and especially spending on the military) has the highest social and economic impact, and obesity is second; obesity generated an impact in the United States of $663 billion a year in 2012, or...
In 2010, there were an estimated 265 million hypertensive patients (20–79 years) in China, making this country the largest absolute disease burden of hypertension in the world1. Hypertension is an important public health challenge in China and measures are required at a population level to ...