The institute says that a major cut in obesity rates will require multiple strategies on a population-wide scale.
But if you look outside the cage - I mean, the box - you will see that the same kind of experiment is now being conducted using human subjects, and on a population-wide scale.
Re "Is It Safe to Play Yet?" by Michael Tortorello (March 15): To the Editor: By focusing on a few extreme examples of "obsessed" parents with time and money to spare, the article undermined the very real health threats that household toxic chemicals pose on a population-wide scale and, in particular, the way that the chemical burden falls heavily on the poor and certain minorities.
"We have seen net gain in bone mineral density when assessing on an individual basis," Sibonga says, pointing out that blog-site headlines talking about "building bone" are trying to make observations of trends on a population-wide scale.
Other reasons for treatment failure are the vast genotypic and phenotypic heterogeneity of malignant gliomas, limiting the effectiveness of any single therapeutic on a population-wide scale, and the presence of tumorigenic cells capable of both resisting conventional therapies as well as escaping immune surveillance [4].
Findings of the current study can, in a population-wide scale, determine the potential borders of the achievement for novel approaches to treat diabetes.
Indeed, prior research suggests that, on a population-wide scale, this would amount to substantial humanistic and economic benefit to society because of the "spill-over" effect that chronic conditions have on patients' families [ 1, 13].
Furthermore, with the population of China exceeding 1 billion, clinical, surgical or pharmacological solutions would not likely be cost effective on such a vast population-wide scale, especially given disparities in economic resources and medical access across subpopulations and regions of China [ 81- 84].
This allows the identification of threshold sizes, which can be compared against projections of expected sizes for fish growing under various conditions to predict expected age and size distributions of smolts and the balance between residency and anadromy on a population-wide scale.
