OBJECTIVES To identify the predictors of obesity among post graduate trainee doctors working in a tertiary care hospital of public sector at Karachi, Pakistan. METHODS A cross sectional analytical study was conducted at one of the tertiary care hospitals of public sector in Karachi. Information was collected from 117 post graduate trainee doctors via pre-tested self administered questionnaire...

AIM Obesity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly Crohn's disease (CD), has previously been considered unusual (3%). CD patients who are obese tend to have increased perianal complications and a higher level of disease activity on an annual basis. Obesity in Scotland has been documented to have increased over the last decade, and over half all men and women in Scotland are now consi...

BACKGROUND Providing coaches as part of a weight management program is a common practice to increase participant engagement and weight loss success. Understanding coach and participant interactions and how these interactions impact weight loss success needs to be further explored for coaching best practices. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyze the coach and participant interact...

This paper discusses Freudenthal’s didactical phenomenology for the mathematical structures related to measurement. Freudenthal starts with the set G of all objects having the attribute of weight, an attribute that is to be measured. He proposes two operations, the first one among the measurements themselves, called “addition”. Addition is interpreted in terms of the mental actions associated w...

Faith and Trueman [Syst. Biol. (2001) 331] recently proposed ‘‘Profile Parsimony’’ (PP) as a new form of phylogenetic analysis, but it is equivalent to the Implied Weights (IW) method when certain functions are used. The PP method cannot accommodate missing ⁄ inapplicable cells and ⁄or multistate characters. Finally we demonstrate that, as defined, PP scores are not random, and 3 there is no ne...

UNLABELLED The standard treatment of hypothyroidism (central and primary) consists of thyroxine (T4) administration alone. However, the normal thyroid gland produces a small proportion of triiodothyronine (T3) directly into the circulation. AIM We aimed to study the free T3 to free T4 ratio in treated central hypothyroidism compared with euthyroidism and treated primary hypothyroidism. METH...

Since a report by Spyker et al.,1) a number of studies have shown various behavioral changes after perinatal exposure to methylmercury in open field tests,2) shock avoidance learning') and operant learning.4) Taste aversion learning is considered a useful examination in behavioral teratology.5) It requires no special behavioral equipments and seems to be less affected by motor dysfunction than ...

We are writing to draw attention to an inconsistency in the amount of water in the packages of both white and grey MTA which are commercially available as ProRoot MTA Original (Dentsply International Inc., Johnson City, TN, USA) and ProRoot MTA (Dentsply International Inc.). In each package, there are five sachets (pouches) containing 1 g of ProRoot MTA powder and six ampoules of water. The man...

OBJECTIVE To use primary care electronic medical records (EMRs) to evaluate the effects of a lifestyle intervention delivered to obese patients compared with obese patients who did not receive the intervention. DESIGN Retrospective cohort analysis using EMR data derived from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network. SETTING A primary care clinic in rural Alberta. PARTICIPAN...