Expanding Waistlines Heighten the Risk for Reproductive Toxicity

Guidelines for Reproductive Toxicity Risk Assessment

Rising obesity and expanding waistlines in schoolchildren: a cohort study.

A cohort of schoolchildren was followed up over 6 years from 1996 to 2001. In the final year, 315 of 500 targeted children were measured. Body mass index (BMI) increased substantially over time (p<0.001), indicating a further rise in obesity into the secondary school years. Two new indicators of obesity were also measured. Waist circumference scores rose as substantially as BMI (p<0.001), and m...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Interagency regulatory liaison group workshop on reproductive toxicity risk assessment.

On September 21-23, 1981, a workshop was held in Rockville, MD, to discuss specific issues related to the evaluation of data for risk assessment in reproductive toxicology (including teratology). The workshop was sponsored by the Interagency Regulatory Liaison Group (IRLG) and was organized by the IRLG Reproductive Toxicity Risk Assessment Task Group.t The Task Group's original charge was to de...

Bee fears heighten

a group of animals under such a high level of threat is, quite frankly, unlike anything we have recorded among any other group of species to date. " Elsewhere, species from tiny mouse lemurs to massive mountain gorillas face challenges to survive in Africa. Eleven out of the thirteen kinds of red colobus monkey assessed were listed as critically endangered or endangered. Two species may already...