Anthropometrie measures Body mass index When we speak about the prevalence of obesity in populations, we mean the fraction of people who have excess storage of body fat. ln adult men with weight in the acceptable range, the percentage of body fat is around 15-20%. ln women, this percentage is higher (about 25-30%). Because differences in weight between individuals are only partly due to variati...

Dr Dave Morgan, email [email protected] LH, l t ral hypothalamus The increase in obesity and its associated complications of diabetes, heart disease and hypertension is one of the greatest health problems facing the Western world. An understanding of the mechanisms regulating food intake, energy expenditure and energy balance is important for combating this epidemic. The hypothalamus is the cru...

Title of dissertation: SAMPLING WEIGHT CALIBRATION WITH ESTIMATED CONTROL TOTALS Jill A. Dever, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor Richard Valliant Joint Program in Survey Methodology Sample weight calibration, also referred to as calibration estimation, is a widely applied technique in the analysis of survey data. This method borrows strength from a set of auxiliary...

Hypothesizing the existence of a subgroup of female smokers for whom nicotine masks, and abstinence unmasks, a tendency toward hyperphagia and perhaps even subthreshold disordered eating, we compared female "weight-control smokers" (WC; n = 46) and "non-weight-control smokers" (NWC; n = 52) on smoking- and eating-related variables. We also examined the relationship between weight-control smokin...

Overweight is an increasingly prevalent condition throughout the world. Current estimates, which are probably conservative, indicate that at least 500 000 000 people worldwide are overweight as defined by a body mass index (BMI) of between 25.0 and 29.9 and an additional 250 000 000 are obese with a BMI of 30.0 or higher.1 In the United States, recent data indicate that as much as 66% of the ad...

1Behavioural and Metabolic Research Unit (BMRU), School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5 2 Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 3Endocrine Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 4School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Queen’s Universi...

Several prospective epidemiologic studies over the past 4 y concluded that ingestion of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee can reduce the risk of diabetes. This finding is at odds with the results of trials in humans showing that glucose tolerance is reduced shortly after ingestion of caffeine or caffeinated coffee and suggesting that coffee consumption could increase the risk of diabetes. Th...

ed from Table 2, page 425, Dublin, Louis I., and Spiegelman, Mortimer. Factors in the Higher Mortality of Our Older Age Groups. A.J.P.H. 42, 4: 422–429 (Apr.), 1952. Consultant, President’s Commission on Health Needs of the Nation. 1 Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Branch, American Public Health Association, Denver, Colo., June 6, 1952. First published American Journal of Public ...