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Overweight and Obesity in Southern Italy: their association with social and life-style characteristics and their effect on levels of biologic markers
Overweight and Obesity in Southern Italy: their association with social and life-style characteristics and their effect on levels of biologic markers.

BACKGROUND: In the last decades, overweight and obesity have been transformed from minor public health issues to a major threat to public health affecting the most affluent societies and also the less developed ones. OBJECTIVES: To estimate overweight-obesity prevalence in adults, their association with ...

Implementation of a colorectal laparoscopic surgical program: short-term outcomes and conversion rates

PURPOSE: although laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of colorectal diseases represents a major advance, it is currently performed in less than a third of patients undergoing colectomies. The aim of this study is to analyze the initial results of laparoscopic-assisted colorectal surgeries (LACS) perfo...

Diferenças entre homens e mulheres da mesma altura corporal no teste de ingestão de água

Introdução: há trabalhos que demonstram que a dinâmica da deglutição é influenciada pelo gênero, o que poderia ser consequente a diferenças anatômicas entre homens e mulheres. Entretanto, estes trabalhos não consideraram o possível efeito da altura corporal dos indivíduos. Nossa hipótese é...

Riesgos psicosociales en el equipo de salud de hospitales públicos de la Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina

Cienc. Trab; 15 (48), 2013
El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar el nivel de riesgo psicosocial en el trabajo de los integrantes de los equipos de salud de hospitales dependientes del Ministerio de Salud de la Provincia de Córdoba. Se diseñó un estudio descriptivo, de corte transversal, sobre 844 trabajadores del eq...

Tiempo libre y trabajo doméstico en su relación con daños psicosociales en docentes de una universidad pública mexicana

Cienc. Trab; 15 (48), 2013
Estudio de la salud en el trabajo en docentes de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, considerando ciertas condiciones relacionadas con el uso del tiempo libre y el trabajo doméstico que pueden asociarse tanto positiva como negativamente con el bienestar y la salud. Material y métodos: Es...

Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean an epidemiological overview

West Indian med. j; 62 (6), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To describe epidemiological trends of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean during the pandemic period. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data on laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths associated with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) contained in two regional databases at the Ca...

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among children six to ten years of age in the North-East Health region of Jamaica

West Indian med. j; 62 (3), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and correlates of overweight and obesity among children six to ten years old in the NorthEast Health Region (NEHR) of Jamaica. METHODS: Weights and heights were measured in a representative sample of 5710 children between the ages of six and ten years in 34 schools b...

Diabetic foot complications among patients attending a specialist diabetes clinic in Jamaica: prevalence and associated factors

West Indian med. j; 62 (3), 2013
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence of diabetic foot complications among patients at a specialist diabetes clinic in Jamaica and identify factors associated with foot complications. METHODS: A stratified random sample of 188 patients were interviewed and examined between 2009 and 2010. Trained nurses ...

Cancer in adolescents and young adults, Kingston and St Andrew, Jamaica, 1988-2007

West Indian med. j; 62 (1), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To determine the distribution of malignancies in adolescents and young adults (AYA; 15 to 29 years) in Jamaica. METHODS: All cases of malignancies diagnosed in AYA in the period 1988-2007, were extracted from the files of the Jamaica Cancer Registry. For each case, age, gender and diagnosis we...