Background: Incidence of obesity in children is increasing worldwide. Healthy eating and exercise are the major components of a healthy life style in the community. Objective: we aim to assess the knowledge of healthy...Background: Incidence of obesity in children is increasing worldwide. Healthy eating and exercise are the major components of a healthy life style in the community. Objective: we aim to assess the knowledge of healthy eating and exercise in children?of varying weight?and to explore the correlation between knowledge and bodyweight. Method: School children are invited to fill in a 2 questions quiz about healthy life style.?BMI is calculated and children are classified into obese, overweight, normal and underweight. Answers are scored and results compared for different categories of the BMI. Results: 445 children participated. Age range (mean) was 7 - 13 (10) years. 67 were obese, 59 overweight, 237 normal weight and 34 were underweight. In the food question, 22%, 20%, 23% 15% of obese, overweight, underweight and normal weight children respectively gave wrong answers compared to 17.5%, 15% and 14.7%, 13.3% for the exercise question. Neither of the results was statistically significant. Boys are more knowledgeable about exercise than girls (P = 0.03). Conclusion: There is no difference in the level of knowledge about healthy eating and exercise among children with varying body weights. Tackling children behavior and attitude towards food and exercise is as important as improving their knowledge.展开更多
Data on female sex workers and sero-discordant couples indicate a pattern of waning of the risk of HIV infection with longer duration of exposure to infected partners.Understanding risk of HIV acquisition and transmis...Data on female sex workers and sero-discordant couples indicate a pattern of waning of the risk of HIV infection with longer duration of exposure to infected partners.Understanding risk of HIV acquisition and transmission is critical to understanding HIV epidemiology and informing prevention interventions.Informed by empirical data,we aimed to develop a statistical model to explain these observations.In our proposed model,the time to infection for each individual is exponentially distributed,but the marginal(population averaged)distribution of time to infection follows a Weibull distribution with shape parameter of about 0.5,and with the Levy distribution being the mixing distribution.Simulations based on this model demonstrated how HIV epidemics are destined to emerge rapidly,because of the rapid sero-conversion upon exposure,but also simultaneously destined to saturate and decline rapidly after emergence,just as observed for the HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.These results imply considerable individual variability in infection risk,probably because of biological heterogeneity in the susceptibility to HIV infection.Factoring this variability in mathematical models,through the methodology provided here,could be critical for valid estimations of impact of HIV interventions and assessments of cost-effectiveness.展开更多
文摘Background: Incidence of obesity in children is increasing worldwide. Healthy eating and exercise are the major components of a healthy life style in the community. Objective: we aim to assess the knowledge of healthy eating and exercise in children?of varying weight?and to explore the correlation between knowledge and bodyweight. Method: School children are invited to fill in a 2 questions quiz about healthy life style.?BMI is calculated and children are classified into obese, overweight, normal and underweight. Answers are scored and results compared for different categories of the BMI. Results: 445 children participated. Age range (mean) was 7 - 13 (10) years. 67 were obese, 59 overweight, 237 normal weight and 34 were underweight. In the food question, 22%, 20%, 23% 15% of obese, overweight, underweight and normal weight children respectively gave wrong answers compared to 17.5%, 15% and 14.7%, 13.3% for the exercise question. Neither of the results was statistically significant. Boys are more knowledgeable about exercise than girls (P = 0.03). Conclusion: There is no difference in the level of knowledge about healthy eating and exercise among children with varying body weights. Tackling children behavior and attitude towards food and exercise is as important as improving their knowledge.
基金The authors gratefully acknowledge the fine support of Ms.Adona Canlas in the preparation of this manuscript.This publicationwas made possible by NPRP 6-681-3-173 from the Qatar National Research Fund(a member of Qatar Foundation)The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.The authors are also grateful for infrastructure support provided by the Biostatistics,Epidemiology,and Biomathematics Research Core at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.
文摘Data on female sex workers and sero-discordant couples indicate a pattern of waning of the risk of HIV infection with longer duration of exposure to infected partners.Understanding risk of HIV acquisition and transmission is critical to understanding HIV epidemiology and informing prevention interventions.Informed by empirical data,we aimed to develop a statistical model to explain these observations.In our proposed model,the time to infection for each individual is exponentially distributed,but the marginal(population averaged)distribution of time to infection follows a Weibull distribution with shape parameter of about 0.5,and with the Levy distribution being the mixing distribution.Simulations based on this model demonstrated how HIV epidemics are destined to emerge rapidly,because of the rapid sero-conversion upon exposure,but also simultaneously destined to saturate and decline rapidly after emergence,just as observed for the HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.These results imply considerable individual variability in infection risk,probably because of biological heterogeneity in the susceptibility to HIV infection.Factoring this variability in mathematical models,through the methodology provided here,could be critical for valid estimations of impact of HIV interventions and assessments of cost-effectiveness.
