Is BMI Alone a Sufficient Outcome To Evaluate Interventions for Child Obesity?

Is BMI alone a sufficient outcome to evaluate interventions for child obesity?

BACKGROUND BMI is often used to evaluate the effectiveness of childhood obesity interventions, but such interventions may have additional benefits independent of effects on adiposity. We investigated whether benefits to health outcomes following the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition…Do It! (MEND) childhood obesity intervention were independent of or associated with changes in zBMI. METHODS A total of...

Is electrocardiography alone enough to evaluate the right ventricular involvement to predict short-term outcome?

Research alone is not sufficient to prevent sports injury

This journal aims to promote, publish and promulgate high-quality, innovative research. As laudable as this is, it is not enough. Unless this research culminates in practical and cost-effective interventions capable of attracting the political and social support required to allow effective implementation, it will not prevent harm or save lives. The Public Health Model has been proposed as a fra...

Is Intent-Aware Expected Reciprocal Rank Sufficient to Evaluate Diversity?

In this paper we define two models of users that require diversity in search results; these models are theoretically grounded in the notion of intrinsic and extrinsic diversity. We then examine Intent-Aware Expected Reciprocal Rank (ERR-IA), one of the official measures used to assess diversity in TREC 2011-12, with respect to the proposed user models. By analyzing ranking preferences as expres...

Scientific evidence alone is not sufficient basis for health policy.

of effectiveness. Although it may frustrate scientists when politicians are swayed by the possible electoral consequences of various policy options, few scientists (including us) would want to live in a society in which politicians completely ignored the views of those who have elected them as their representatives. Voting, free speech, debate, and the push and pull of politics must have an imp...