BACKGROUND There is limited information on sleep duration and obesity among Australian children. The objective of the study is to cross-sectionally examine the relationship between sleep duration and obesity in Australian children aged 5 to 15 years. METHODS Data were collected using the South Australian Monitoring and Surveillance System between January 2004 and December 2008. Each month a r...

Background Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of large vessel vasculitis. While remission and relapse are primary endpoints in randomized clinical trials (RCTs), a definition response missing. We conducted systematic literature review (SLR) to inform an international task force developing new criteria GCA. Objectives To identify descriptors used measure treatment change disease ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the developmental trajectory of obesity in adolescence in relation to sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. DESIGN Five year longitudinal cohort study of a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of school students aged 11-12 years at baseline. SETTING 36 London schools recruited to the study in 1999 by a stratified random sampling procedure. PARTICIPANTS ...

AIMS Body mass index (BMI) shows several limitations as indicator of fatness. Using the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) reference and the World Health Organization (WHO) standard 2007 on the same dataset yielded widely different rates. At higher levels, BMI and the BMI cut-offs may be help in informing a clinical judgement, but at levels near the norm additional criteria may be needed. ...