Understanding Adiposity at Different Times across the Life Course and Cancer Risk: Is Evidence Sufficient to Act?

Early life adiposity and telomere length across the life course : a systematic review and meta - analysis

The relationship between adiposity at birth and in childhood, and Background telomere length is yet to be determined. We aimed to systematically review and meta-analyse the results of studies assessing associations between neonatal and childhood adiposity, and telomere length. : We searched Medline, EMBASE and PubMed for studies reporting Methods associations between adiposity measured in the n...

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Lifestyle and late life cognitive health: sufficient evidence to act now?

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Body size across the life course, mammographic density, and risk of breast cancer.

Adult body mass index (BMI) is inversely associated with premenopausal breast cancer risk, and childhood and adolescent body size is inversely associated with breast cancer risk in pre- and postmenopausal women. Breast density is inversely related to body size and may play a role in the association of body size with breast cancer risk. The authors conducted a nested case-control study including...