Due to its constantly growing incidence, obesity is an increasingly serious social and medical problem. Available data on the use of novel oral anticoagulants in morbidly obese and obese patients are very limited. However, we tried to summarize the available knowledge on the use of anticoagulants in this subpopulation of patients in everyday clinical practice. Studies on the clinical use of ant...

This study was conducted to compare body shape satisfaction, body image perception, weight control status, and dietary habits of Korean and Chinese female high school students in order to provide information for proper body image perception of adolescents. 221 students in Yongin, a city in Korea, and 227 students in Weihai, a city in China, were surveyed using questionnaires. Body shape satisfa...

OBJECTIVE To assess differences in the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) during pregnancy with the pre-gravid and gravid weight status of women. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Athens, Greece. SUBJECTS One hundred pregnant women, inhabitants of Athens. RESULTS The mean raw HEI score of the sample was 66·9 (sd 7·6) and the mean HEI adjusted for energy intake was 66·9 (sd 0·6). No difference was...

The concept of ideal weight standards disregarding age is said to have been developed by the late Dr Louis Dublin, once chief actuary of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.' This body published tables of "desirable weight" for health education in the early 1940s. Subsequently, the build and blood pressure study, conducted by the Society of Actuaries,4 resulted in the creation of revised we...

The increasing concern of the policy maker about eating behaviour has focused on the spread of obesity and on the evidence of people dieting despite being underweight. As the latter behaviour is often attributed to the social pressure to be thin, some governments have already taken actions to ban ultra-thin ideals and models. This paper proposes a theoretical framework to assess whether increas...