Health risks induced by the temporal course of weight gain were studied. Of 1,627 male company employees, 437 subjects were selected as follows. The criteria for eligibility were: 1) A subject must have undergone more than 20 health checkups. 2) The subject's weight gain since adolescence must have exceeded 7 kilograms. Four hundred and thirty-seven subjects were selected using these criteria. ...

OBJECTIVE Small birth size and rapid postnatal growth have been associated with higher future blood pressure. The timing of these effects, the relative importance of weight gain and linear growth and the role of infant feeding need to be clarified. METHODS We assessed how blood pressure relates to birth weight, infant and childhood growth and infant feeding (duration of exclusive breastfeedin...

Few studies of associations between weight loss or weight fluctuations and mortality have been sufficiently long term to permit exclusion of early deaths for a portion of follow-up long enough to eliminate likely effects of illness-related weight loss. This study examined associations of the variation (standard deviation and standard deviation about the trend (slope)) and trend (weight loss or ...

Blue Mesa Reservoir is the largest body of water in Colorado and is located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 7520 feet. Blue Mesa Reservoir contains recreationally important populations of l ake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), rainbow trout (Onocorhynchus mykiss), and brown trout (Salmo trutta). A management challenge in recent ye...