Casualties from natural disasters may depend on the day of the week they strike. With data from the Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS), daily variation in hurricane and tornado casualties from 5,043 tornado and 2,455 hurricane time/place events is analyzed. Hurricane forecasts provide at-risk populations with considerable lead time. Such lead time allows s...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial stress might trigger myocardial infarction (MI). Increased MI incidence coincides with recurrent time periods during the year perceived as particularly stressful in the population. METHODS A stress-triggering hypothesis on the risk of MI onset was investigated with Swedish population data on MI hospital admission date and symptom onset date (N=156,690; 148,176) as regi...

Patients admitted to a 30 bedded acute geriatric medical ward in 1993 were followed up to discharge. The admission rate on weekend days was half that for weekdays. Six percent of ward discharges occurred at weekends, over half being due to death. Respiratory, cardiovascular and central nervous systems disorders were the commonest reasons for admission (56%) and death (73%). Greater emphasis sho...

Some children are inactive on weekends but active on weekdays. Correlates of such behavior remain to be clarified. We assessed school, out-of-school and family correlates of compliance with physical activity (PA) recommendations during weekdays among weekend non-compliant youth in Switzerland. Cross-sectional data collected in 2013-2015 from the SOPHYA study. PA was objectively measured during ...

Aim This study examined the pattern of sedentary behaviour during week and on weekends associations with health outcomes among children aged 5-7 years in Sweden. Methods cross-sectional used data from 342 children, many whom had at least one parent born outside Nordic region. Physical activity time were measured by accelerometry. A bout was defined as 1-4 5-9 min. Diet, front television or comp...

I wonder how the average G. P. and family spend their off duty weekends? Are we such an exception or do other such households begin the weekend with an ominous ring on the doorbell and the appearance of a young pony lover clutching a bleeding/broken wrist/nose/ankle? This is no doubt due to the fact that as a family we are interested in sporting injuries and own horses ourselves. A fatal combin...

© 2007 Elsevier. All rights reserved. Usually, fewer people work in hospitals on weekends than on weekdays. Such shortfalls in hospital staffing levels lead to less effective hospital functioning, and undoubtedly a lower quality of patient care on weekends. For instance, earlier studies have shown that neonatal mortality is higher for babies born on weekends than among those born on weekdays [1...

BACKGROUND Children with cystic fibrosis (CF) often have suboptimal adherence rates to nebulized medication. Adherence barriers cited include forgetting to take the nebulizers, due to busy home and social lives. Text message reminders have been shown to be effective at improving adherence rates in other chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to...