However, nationally representative and internationally comparable data on physical activity (PA) are lacking in Bangladesh.
At home they have to deal with a highly unionised workforce and a supervisory board heavily influenced by employee and union representatives, while internationally they must compete with companies whose labour costs are as much as 80% lower.
Findings from the largest nationally and internationally representative studies have shown that the number of overweight and obese adults is increasing [ 1- 3].
Nonetheless smaller initiatives may also contribute to enlarge the scope of bioethics and make bioethics more international such as the inclusion of internationally representative members in editorial boards, partnerships between high income countries and developing countries, and twinning arrangements.
While we cannot claim that the perspectives of patients at the study practices are internationally representative, previous studies in the USA have also found that the process for communicating test results is haphazard and that dissatisfaction with current practice is pervasive.
Although the larger Hokusai-VTE study had a predominantly Caucasian study population (approximately 70%), the study also had a varied ethnic composition with 21% Asian and around 3.5% Black or African American patients, and hence was the largest and most internationally representative VTE study [ 26].
However, to date, prevalence estimates have been based on non-representative samples and internationally no studies have compared prevalence of overweight and obesity among nurses to other healthcare professionals using representative data.
While noting that this mandate would expire within a year, the council expressed its "readiness to consider on that occasion any future need for the continuation of the multinational force, taking into account the views of an internationally recognized, representative government of Iraq".
Broadly representative cohort studies using internationally recognized headache diagnostic criteria might more reliably determine if differences exist between children who suffer from primary headaches and from those who do not and whether differences exist between headache groups.
Ms. Paracha, who works at the United Nations and has lived in the United States since age 2, allowed that there might be some backlash in Pakistan, a conservative Muslim state, if one of its representatives were to compete internationally in a bikini.
