BACKGROUND The health condition of workers is known to impact on productivity outcomes. The relationship between health and productivity is of increasing interest amid the need to increase productivity to meet global financial challenges. Prevalence of psychological distress is also of growing concern in Australia with a two-fold increase in the prevalence of psychological distress in Australia...

INTRODUCTION Physical exercise is an important component for the treatment of obesity. Little information is available about the best and safety form of physical exercise concerning the type and volume-intensity to be prescribed for individuals with morbid obesity. AIM To investigate the effect of physical exercise programs in medical and surgical treatment for morbid obesity. METHODS Was u...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify factors that assessors considered important in decision-making regarding suitability for inpatient rehabilitation after acute severe stroke. DESIGN Multi-site prospective observational cohort study. SUBJECTS Consecutive acute, severe stroke patients and their assessors for inpatient rehabilitation. METHODS Rehabilitation assessors completed a questi...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate potential risk factors, including non-communicable diseases, for morbid obesity in women between 20 and 49 years of age. METHODS We performed a case-control study with 110 morbidly obese women and 110 women with adequate weight who were matched by age and with a 1:1 case to control ratio. All women were between 20 to 49 years old and non-menopa...

of evidence • Patients undergoing various bariatric surgical procedures lost an average of 61.2% of their excess weight (varying from 47.5% for gastric banding to 70.1% for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch procedures) • Perioperative mortality was relatively low (varying from 0.1% for banding, 0.5% for bypass, to 1.1% for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch) • Most patients...

Obesity imposes devastating health and financial tolls on society and those who suffer from it. Despite the growing awareness of the problem, the obesity epidemic, along with its associated complications, continues to expand at an alarming rate (1). The current nomenclature used to measure an individuals degree of obesity is BMI, which is calculated by dividing weight (in kilograms) by the squa...

Since severe obesity is frequently associated with serious metabolic, cardiovascular and psychological co-morbid conditions, and given the usually unsuccessful results of conservative therapeutic approaches, surgical treatment based on gastric restriction procedures is increasingly recognized as a treatment of choice for morbidly obese persons. Among several surgical approaches designed to prom...

are said to be " found most often on the lips or tongue," although the majority of observers regard tonsillar chancre as the commonest extra-genital primary lesion. The characters of the secondary " snail-crawl" ulceration are not made plain, and Hutchinson's teeth are described as " wider at the margins than the base," which, if by margin is meant the cutting edge, is certainly inaccurate. Man...

The rising prevalence of morbid obesity and the increased incidence of super-obese patients (BMI >50 kg/m2) seeking surgical treatments has led to the search for surgical techniques that provide adequate EWL with the least possible morbidity. Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) was initially added as a modification to the biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) and then combined with a duodenal switch (DS) in 1988...

BACKGROUND Multi-morbidity due to diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains challenging for current health-systems, which focus on single diseases. As a first step toward health-care improvement, we explored the perspectives of patients and their carers on factors influencing the health-care of those with co-morbid diabetes and CKD. METHODS In this qualitative study participants with ...