OBJECTIVE Preterm infants are at increased risk of severe rotavirus gastroenteritis. Although immunization with rotavirus vaccine is safe and effective, age restrictions limit the number of infants eligible for vaccination at discharge from the NICU. The objectives of this study were to assess the implementation of the rotavirus vaccine program in our NICU, recognize missed opportunities for va...

obesity is one of the health threatening problems and the second preventable mortality factor, the prevalence of which is increasing. the economic burden of obesity is estimated at 2-7% of the total healthcare costs and it is predicted to be top health problem of the world in 2025. therefore, following up obesity and developing effective clinical interventions is a significant measure taken in ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Parents of children who are overweight often fail to accurately identify their child's weight status. Although these misperceptions are presumed to be a major public health concern, little research has examined whether parental perceptions of child weight status are protective against weight gain during childhood. Our objective was to examine whether parental perception...

BACKGROUND The effects of weight-loss attempts on long-term weight gain remain unclear. OBJECTIVE The objective was to study prospectively how attempts to lose weight relate to future risk of major weight gain (>10 kg) and whether familial factors affect this relation. DESIGN Participants in the Finnish Twin Cohort (3536 men and 4193 women aged 18-54 y at baseline) were followed up for 6-15...

Background Asthma and wheezing account for a substantial disease burden around the world. Very low birth weight (VLBW, <1500 grams) infants are at an increased risk for the development of severe acute respiratory illness (ARI) and recurrent wheeze/asthma. The role of respiratory viruses in asthma predisposition in premature infants is not well understood. Preliminary evidence suggests that infe...

BACKGROUND Obesity has a negative impact on motor function, leading to an increase in fall risk. Massive weight loss improves some aspects of gait on flat ground. However, we have little information about whether gait changes during flat-ground walking and during more complex motor tasks beyond flat-ground walking. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to examine how massive weight loss after Roux-e...

OBJECTIVE AND METHOD To inform the classification of bulimic-type eating disorders not meeting formal diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa (BN), levels of eating disorder psychopathology and functional impairment associated with subjective and objective bulimic episodes (SBEs and OBEs) and purging and nonpurging methods of weight control were examined in a large community-based sample of wom...

OBJECTIVE Frequent self-weighing is linked with weight management success, but concern has been raised about its possible association with unhealthy practices. This study examined the association of self-weighing with other weight control behaviors in a sample for whom frequent weighing might be questioned--namely, normal-weight or overweight (BMI of 21-29.9) young adults (age 18-35). METHODS...

This paper describes and demonstrates a new and highly innovative technique that identifies an approximation of the entire bounding surface of the feasible objective region directly, including deep concavities, disconnected regions and the edges of interior holes in the feasible areas. The Pareto front is a subset of the surface of the objective boundary and can be extracted easily. Importantly...