AIM In Korea, obesity is more prevalent among men and lower socioeconomic groups. To explain this obesity disparity, we compared weight perception and weight control behavior across gender and socioeconomic status (SES). METHODS We analyzed data from 16,260 participants aged 20 years or older in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey. SES indicators included education and income l...

A successful catch of a falling ball requires an accurate estimation of the timing for when the ball hits the hand. In a previous experiment in which participants performed ball-catching task in virtual reality environment, we accidentally found that the weight of a falling ball was perceived differently when the timing of ball load force to the hand was shifted from the timing expected from vi...

Background Dietary and illness factors affect risk of growth faltering; the role of enteropathogens is less clear. As part of the Etiology, Risk Factors and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) study, we quantify the effects of enteropathogen infection, diarrhoea and diet on child growth. Methods Newborns were enrol...

Purpose: Overweight and obese women with breast cancer have poorer survival compared with thinner women. One possible reason is that breast cancer survivors with higher degrees of adiposity have higher concentrations of tumor-promoting hormones. This study examined the association between adiposity and concentrations of estrogens, androgens, and sex hormone–binding globulin (SHBG) in a populati...

OBJECTIVE To compare the heart weight and the heart weight/body weight coefficient of adults with and without chronic malnutrition. METHODS In an initial case series of 210 autopsies performed in adults, we recorded body and heart weights and calculated the heart weight/body weight coefficients (HW/BW x 100). The exclusion criteria were as follows: positive serology for Chagas' disease, edema...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of a counselling intervention on excessive weight gain during pregnancy and postpartum weight retention. DESIGN The New Life(style) study was a randomised trial with a control group (n = 113) and an intervention group (n = 106). SETTING Midwife practices in the Netherlands. POPULATION Women with a healthy pregnancy, expecting their first baby. METHODS ...

We reinvestigated the parameter space favouring the 4-body decay of the lighter top squark accessible at Tevatron Run-II consistent with the lighter CP-even Higgs boson mass bound from LEP, in mSUGRA as well as in unconstrained supersymmetric models. Our results show that the lighter top squark search prospects via the 4-body decay mode, in particular the l+n−jets+E/T topology, are not promisin...