BACKGROUND Physical activity is associated with an improvement in cardiovascular health, however there is a paucity of information about the effects of sprint interval training on individuals with high metabolic risk. AIM To determine the effects of three exercise programs on anthropometric and metabolic markers in overweight, sedentary and prediabetic women. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty thre...

Like Humpty Dumpty, many philosophers take pride in saying what they mean and meaning what they say. Literalism does have its virtues, like when you're drawing up a contract or programming a computer, but generally we prefer to speak loosely and leave a lot to inference. Language works far more efficiently that way. Two Kinds of Looseness It helps if you can rely on people not to take you too l...

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is caused by antibodies against a "self" protein-platelet factor 4-bound to heparin. We observed an overrepresentation of the female gender in 290 patients who developed HIT after cardiac or orthopedic surgery compared with the representation found in national databases (study 1). Therefore, we investigated gender imbalance in HIT by logistic regression an...

This study compared three groups of grandparents, attempting to disentangle grandparental role demands from child-specific problems as sources of role-specific and grandchild-relationship distress. Those grandparents raising grandchildren reported to demonstrate neurological, physical, emotional, or behavioral problems exhibited the most personal distress, the least role satisfaction and role m...

This study was designed to investigate life stress, attitude toward death, and meaning in life and to identify factors contributing to meaning in life among middle-aged women. The participants were 220 middle-aged women of D city, Korea. The data were collected through a structured questionnaire from October 4 to 30, 2010, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffè’s test...

INTRODUCTION Chronic migraine (CM) is a complication of episodic migraine, favored by risk factors as medication overuse (MO). We intend to compare demographic and clinic characteristics of a series of CM patients, with and without MO. METHODS The study included patients with CM (2006 revised criteria) attended in a headache outpatient office located in a tertiary hospital between January 200...

The notion of literal construal divides anti-realists into two kinds: the kind who say that science aims to be true when construed non-literally; and kind van Fraassen belongs to, who say that while theories should be literally construed, they don’t have to be true. The first kind of anti-realist might claim e.g. that the theory of phlogiston and the modern theory of combustion say the same thi...

This article focuses on the development of online fat kinship in Health at Every Size (HAES) movement. Drawing upon 15 women’s experiences their HAES community membership, we explore ways that develops around fatphobic experiences, and how it can facilitate mitigation oppression. Building notion “knowing community,” suggest sharing of, developing tactics against, medical fatphobia transforms co...