background and aims: obesity is one of the most important problems of modern society, and body mass index (bmi) is a tool to indicate overweight and obesity in adults. obesity is directly associated with many non-communicable diseases. so for this reason, it was designed a study to assess overweight and obesity in kooy dormitory students of tehran university of medical sciences in 2015. methods...

Chilmula (Raj) Reddy, MD, Nephrology, Los Angeles Medical Center, has been caring for patients with Kaiser Permanente (KP) since 1972. Long before joining KP, however, Dr Reddy was living 9000 miles away in a poor farming village outside of Hyderabad, India. Dr Reddy is keenly aware that he did not make his journey alone, and he acknowledges that he would not be where he is today without the su...

The Papuan Student Dormitory is one of the dormitories located at Jalan B'Koetin No 92, Palangka Village, Jekan Raya District, City 73112, and a dormitory inhabited by students from Papua who are pursuing Bachelor's Degree Education getting educational assistance called Adik (Papua Affirmation) University Raya. Students receive ADik Affirmation Program placed in where there 40 rooms all. hostel...

Two noise annoyance surveys were performed in Bratislava, the capital of the Slovak Republic, in a ten-year interval (1989-1999). This was a period of political and socioeconomic transformation as well as of changes in traffic management. Equivalent noise levels were assessed at the dormitory (exposed group) and in the residential areas (100 measuring stations) where another group of students (...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the importance of environmental influences in explaining weight gain and related behaviors among freshman college students. METHODS We exploited a natural experiment that takes place on most college campuses in the United States--randomized dormitory assignments. We estimated the effects of living in dormitories with varying physical environment characterist...

The authors aimed to evaluate traffic noise level and noise annoyance in Beijing and the impact of the noise on the quality of life of the residences. The authors performed a cross-sectional study in a 12-floor college dormitory near 4th Ring Road in Beijing, China. The north-side rooms of the building were noisy and had windows facing the road. The authors measured both indoor and outdoor nois...