BACKGROUND Postpartum weight retention affects many women and increases the risk of becoming overweight. The research objective was to study modifiable factors contributing to weight change at one year postpartum. METHODS In this prospective cohort, postpartum behavior, such as physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, and intake of total energy, total fat and saturated fatty acids of 118...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of birth weight on infant mortality, illness and care seeking in rural Ghana. METHODS Using randomized controlled trial data, we compared infants weighing 2.00-2.49, 1.50-1.99 and < 1.50 kg with non-low-birth-weight infants. We generated adjusted mortality hazard ratios (aHR), adjusted illness rate ratios (aRR) and adjusted odds ratios (aOR) for health-faci...

OBJECTIVE This study examined specific measures of weight loss in relation to incident diabetes and improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This prospective, observational study analyzed nine weight measures, characterizing baseline weight, short- versus long-term weight loss, short- versus long-term weight regain, and weight cycling, within the Diabetes Preve...

BACKGROUND The high prevalence of disease and associated weight loss at older ages limits the validity of prospective cohort studies examining the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality. METHODS I examined mortality associated with excess weight using maximum BMI-a measure that is robust to confounding by illness-induced weight loss. Analyses were carried out on US never-smok...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a major risk factor for venous thromboembolism (VTE), but it is unknown to what extent weight change over time affects VTE risk. AIMS To investigate the association between weight change and risk of incident VTE in a population-based cohort with repeated measurements. METHODS Participant data were collected from the Tromsø 3 (1986-87), 4 (1994-95), 5 (2000-01) and 6 (2...

purpose: to determine the correlation between body mass index (bmi) and exudative age-related macular degeneration (armd). methods: this case-control study was conducted on 60 patients with exudative armd and 60 controls, both aged over 50. age, sex, cigarette smoking and blood pressure were evaluated beside bmi. data analysis was performed by spss software, version 9.0 using pearson chi square...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the association of dissatisfaction with body weight - a component of body image - with depression in individuals of different sex, age, and with different body mass index (BMI). Hence, the aim of our study was to evaluate the association of body weight dissatisfaction (BWD) with depression in different sub-groups. METHODS We analyzed data of 15,975 individuals...

More than a decade of research has demonstrated that faces evoke prioritized processing in a core face network of three brain regions. However, whether these regions prioritize the detection of global facial form (shared by humans and mannequins) or the detection of life in a face has remained unclear. Here, we dissociate form-based and animacy-based encoding of faces by using animate and inani...

This commentary is in response to Drs. Feinberg and Brigham’s request for reader feedback of their 2014 revision of their 2006 “Guide to the Guides . . . ” [1]. They teach that its use improves rating accuracy. We concur. Their 2014 revision generates impairment rating protocols in injured workers that are based on the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 5 Edition (GUIDES) [2]...

We evaluated the association between weight change in middle-aged adults and papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) based on a large-scale case-control study. Our study included data from 1551 PTC patients (19.3% men and 80.7% women) who underwent thyroidectomy at the 3 general hospitals in Korea and 15,510 individually matched control subjects. The subjects' weight history, epidemiologic information, ...