BACKGROUND Repetitions of pre-competition weight-loss diets done by athletes participating in weight class sports can be regarded as periods of weight cycling. The aim of the present study is to identify the long term post-career (22 years) evolutionary profile of athletes' BMI after such weight cycling. METHODS One hundred and thirty-six retired French athletes who participated in major inte...

In mathematical logic, we use first-order languages to describe mathematical structures. Intuitively, a structure is a set that we wish to study equipped with a collection of distinguished functions, relations, and elements. We then choose a language where we can talk about the distinguished functions, relations, and elements and nothing more. For example, when we study the ordered field of rea...

background:respiratory distress syndrome is the most common respiratory disease in premature neonate and the most important cause of death among them. we aimed to investigate factors to predict successful or failure of insure method as a therapeutic method of rds.methods:in a cohort study,45 neonates with diagnosed rds and birth weight lower than 1500g were included and they underwent insure fo...

BACKGROUND Various nutritional assessment tools are available to assess adult undernutrition, but few are practical in poorly served areas of low-income countries. OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the relation between midupper arm circumference (MUAC), weight, body mass index (BMI), and clinical assessment for edema in predicting mortality in adults with severe acute undernutrition. DE...

BACKGROUND Increased adiposity is linked with higher risk for cardiometabolic diseases. We aimed to determine to what extent elevated body mass index (BMI) within the normal weight range has causal effects on the detailed systemic metabolite profile in early adulthood. METHODS AND FINDINGS We used Mendelian randomization to estimate causal effects of BMI on 82 metabolic measures in 12,664 ado...

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BACKGROUND Several studies reported inverse associations between birth weight and central adiposity in adults. However, few studies investigated the contributions of different abdominal fat compartments. OBJECTIVE We examined associations between birth weight and adult visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat in the population-based Fenland study. DESIGN A total of 1092 adults (437 men and 6...

We study a planar polynomial differential system, given by ẋ = P (x, y), ẏ = Q(x, y). We consider a function I(x, y) = exp{h2(x)A1(x, y) A0(x, y)} h1(x) ∏l i=1(y − gi(x))i , where gi(x) are algebraic functions of x, A1(x, y) = ∏r k=1(y − ak(x)), A0(x, y) = ∏s j=1(y − g̃j(x)) with ak(x) and g̃j(x) algebraic functions, A0(x, y) and A1(x, y) do not share any common factor, h2(x) is a rational functi...

BACKGROUND The United States has been the country with the highest body mass indexes (BMIs; in kg/m(2)) at higher centiles, but research that compares the United States with other nations is lacking. OBJECTIVE To present a picture of global obesity and examine the shifts in BMI in children, I examined BMI data for men and women at the upper ends of the BMI distributions in Australia, China, t...