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The effect of rising obesity on eligibility to serve in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Economics and human biology

Maclean JC, Cawley J.
PMID: 24451545
Econ Hum Biol. 2014 Dec;15:213-24. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2013.12.007. Epub 2014 Jan 07.

This study investigates how rising obesity has affected eligibility to serve in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), the uniformed service charged with protecting and promoting public health in the U.S. Data are drawn from the...

[Your soul weighs about how much, do you estimate?].

Revue medicale suisse

Nau JY.
PMID: 22393659
Rev Med Suisse. 2012 Feb 08;8(327):342-3.

No abstract available.

Physical Forces between Humans and How Humans Attract and Repel Each Other Based on Their Social Interactions in an Online World.

PloS one

Thurner S, Fuchs B.
PMID: 26196505
PLoS One. 2015 Jul 21;10(7):e0133185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133185. eCollection 2015.

Physical interactions between particles are the result of the exchange of gauge bosons. Human interactions are mediated by the exchange of messages, goods, money, promises, hostilities, etc. While in the physical world interactions and their associated forces have immediate...

A framework for evaluating the impact of obesity prevention strategies on socioeconomic inequalities in weight.

American journal of public health

Backholer K, Beauchamp A, Ball K, Turrell G, Martin J, Woods J, Peeters A.
PMID: 25121810
Am J Public Health. 2014 Oct;104(10):e43-50. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302066. Epub 2014 Aug 14.

We developed a theoretical framework to organize obesity prevention interventions by their likely impact on the socioeconomic gradient of weight. The degree to which an intervention involves individual agency versus structural change influences socioeconomic inequalities in weight. Agentic interventions,...

The metabolic syndrome: requiescat in pace.

Clinical chemistry

Reaven GM.
PMID: 15746300
Clin Chem. 2005 Jun;51(6):931-8. doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.048611. Epub 2005 Mar 03.

Values for insulin-mediated glucose disposal vary continuously throughout a population of apparently healthy individuals, with at least a sixfold variation between the most insulin sensitive and most insulin resistant of these individuals. The more insulin resistant a person, the...

Incidence of type 2 diabetes in individuals with central obesity in a rural Japanese population: the Tanno and Sobetssu study: Response to Ohnishi et al.

Diabetes care

Oda E.
PMID: 16873826
Diabetes Care. 2006 Aug;29(8):1988-9. doi: 10.2337/dc06-0888.

No abstract available.

Network interventions on physical activity in an afterschool program: an agent-based social network study.

American journal of public health

Zhang J, Shoham DA, Tesdahl E, Gesell SB.
PMID: 25689202
Am J Public Health. 2015 Apr;105:S236-43. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302277. Epub 2015 Feb 17.

OBJECTIVES: We studied simulated interventions that leveraged social networks to increase physical activity in children.METHODS: We studied a real-world social network of 81 children (average age = 7.96 years) who lived in low socioeconomic status neighborhoods, and attended public...

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