Effect of neighborhood exposures on changes in weight among women in Cebu, Philippines (1983-2002). (73/201)

The authors aimed to identify the contributions of community factors to weight change in a cohort of women from Metropolitan Cebu, Philippines, between 1983 and 2002. The authors created a three-level random-intercept model to see whether mean body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) varied by individual- and cluster-level variables and identified community characteristics associated with changes in BMI among 2,952 nonpregnant women. The average BMI among women living in places with four public amenities (telephones, electricity, mail delivery, and newspapers) was 0.16 kg/m(2) (95% confidence interval: 0.07, 0.26) higher than that of women living in places with fewer than three amenities. An increase in population density of 10,000 persons per km(2) was associated with a BMI increase of 0.09 kg/m(2) (95% confidence interval: 0.05, 0.13). A model with interactions revealed that the effect of population density increased significantly over time. These findings confirm earlier observations that in low-income countries, obesity starts among the wealthiest communities. Secondary and tertiary prevention policies designed to reduce obesity should be implemented in the most economically developed areas first. Primary prevention would be most needed in less developed areas, where the obesity epidemic is just beginning.  (+info)

Newspapers and newspaper ink contain agonists for the ah receptor. (74/201)

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Relation between newspaper coverage of tobacco issues and smoking attitudes and behaviour among American teens. (75/201)

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Possible impact of the NHK special questioning cancer treatment in Japan on clinicians' prescriptions of oxaliplatin. (76/201)

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Deconstructing media coverage of trastuzumab (Herceptin): an analysis of national newspaper coverage. (77/201)

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A scoping review of research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the mass media: looking back, moving forward. (78/201)

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Media coverage of the persistent vegetative state and end-of-life decision-making. (79/201)

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Beyond surface characteristics: a new health text-specific readability measurement. (80/201)

Accurate readability assessment of health related materials is a critical first step in producing easily understandable consumer health information resources and personal health records. Existing general readability formulas may not always be appropriate for the medical/consumer health domain. We developed a new health-specific readability pilot measure, based on the differences in semantic and syntactic features as well as text unit length. The tool was tested with 4 types of materials: consumer health texts, electronic health records, health news articles, and scientific biomedical journals. The results were compared with those produced by three commonly used general readability formulas. While the general formulas underestimated the difficulty of health records by placing them at the same grade levels as consumer health texts, our method rated health records as the most difficult type of documents. Our ratings, however, were highly correlated with general formulas ratings of consumer health, news, and journal articles (r=0.81 approximately 0.85, p<.0001).  (+info)