"When kids live in an environment in which they see, on a daily basis, parents or school peers who are overweight, they may develop inaccurate perceptions of what constitutes a healthy weight," says Katerina Maximova, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Alberta.
Trueman: There's a brouhaha in the blogosphere over Paul Campos NYY Times op-ed in which he claims that our current definition of what constitutes a 'healthy weight' is dead wrong.
Although normal weight patients rarely receive physician advice to maintain normal weight,[ 8]. the subset who are rapidly gaining weight constitute a higher risk group that may benefit from targeted counseling.
Since weights can no longer be stored in read-only memories, these dynamic weights constitute a significant challenge for digital circuits, in addition to the usual issues of area occupation, fixed-point arithmetic and nonlinear functions computations.
These disorders are considered to constitute a continuum with varying weighting of the symptoms and neuropathological features.
Ethylene bisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) fungicides, mancozeb and maneb, contain approximately 20% manganese by weight and may constitute a potential source of exposure to Mn.
However, a discrepancy in birth weight between siblings may constitute a warning sign even in the absence of obvious pathology, and such babies may benefit from increased surveillance.
Given the increasing rate of obesity, the effects of excessive body weight on surgical outcomes constitute a relevant quality of care concern.
Dr. Steinn Sigurdsson, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, said medium-weight black holes might constitute a "missing link" in the mysteries of galactic origins and evolution.
The concordant monochorionic twins with birth weight differences of ≤10% constitute a control group.
Weight-promoting effects of many essentially used glucose-lowering regimens (e.g., sulfonylureas, glinides, glitazones, insulin, and their combinations) constitute an obvious obstacle for effective weight control and represent a confounding factor regarding the benefits of weight loss in diabetes management trials.
