When presenting results, we refer to gains in height as a healthy trend because the relationship between height and health is positive and continuous. We refer to BMI gain as unhealthy except in countries where
Overweight and obesity prevalence are commonly used for public and policy communication of the extent of the obesity epidemic, yet comparable estimates of trends in overweight and obesity prevalence by country are not available. Methods We estimated trends between 1980 and 2008 in overweight and obesit...
The Population Bomb, by Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich, “made dire predictions and triggered a wave of repression around the world.”[2]Authored by an evolutionary biologist known for his “groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies,”...
Anderson picture a Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company production 11/10/98 OVER BLACK; NARRATOR In the New York Herald, November 26, year 1911, there is an account of the hanging of three men -- TO: Black and White Lumiere Footage Three men hung...bang...bang...bang. TO: Newspaper ...
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We kept simul-climbing. When i got up and looked at the description we had simul-climbed 2 full pitches of 5.7 and 5.8. The next pitch started at a chimney which was kind of heinous and had no pro. I grabbed the ledge up top but was backwards so i had to do an over the ...
International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article Association between SNPs in microRNAs and microRNAs-Machinery Genes with Susceptibility of Leprosy in the Amazon Population Mayara Natália Santana da Silva 1,2,* , Diana Feio da Veiga Borges Leal 3 , Camille Sena 1, Pablo Pinto 1,4, Angélica ...
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We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control)...
We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. Methods For this analysis,...