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 mean BMI was more than 1 SD lower than the median of the WHO reference (ie, ...
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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...
Eretz can also refer to the nations of the earth, regions, cities, ground, soil, even the underworld. It can also mean world to describe planet earth, but not other planets. Moreover, God said to “subdue [kabash]” the land. To subdue a land is to bring it under subjection. (...
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 ...
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 ...
Brazil is the world’s 5th most populous country (after China, India, USA and Indonesia), and has about half of the population of South America. The population has grown very rapidly (1872: 9.9 million, 1950: 51.9 million, 1970: 93.1 million, 1980: 119 million, 2000: 169.8 million, 200...
In spite of his predictions, there was no net increase in the death rate around the world due to famine as a result of the conditions Ehrlich predicted. Actually, accordingly to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization, famine has become rarer around the world, from 1 out of 4 suffering ...
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,...