Browsing by Subject "BMI"
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(2012-02-14)South Asians have 2-4 times higher risk of heart disease than Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics and India has the highest number of individuals with type 2 diabetes. National studies on South Asians chronic ...
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(2009-05-15)Older adults represent a growing part of the population of the United States. Due to decreased physical activity, dietary changes, and alterations in metabolic rate this population is susceptible to an increased rate of ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-10-01)Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern among many industrialized countries. Authors Meer and Lim present a clear view on the effect of social networks on BMI for adolescents from randomly-assigned seventh ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-08-01)Obesity among children is an important public health concern, and social networks may play a role in students' habits that increase the likelihood of being overweight. We examine data from South Korean middle schools, where ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-10-01)For decades, colleges and universities have focused on increasing racial diversity on college campuses through targeted policy efforts. Authors Hoekstra, Carrell and West investigate whether diversity causes members of the ...
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The Influence of Gardening Activities on Reports of Health Problems, Allergies, and Body Mass Index (2016-02-05)In the last quarter century, the epidemic of overweight and obese Americans has increased strikingly. Obesity is far more perilous than most adults think because it disables and kills by substantially raising the risk of ...
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(2011-10-21)In recent years, literature in the area of web-based interventions for health-related concerns has burgeoned due to the increasing popularity and accessibility of the World Wide Web. Researchers have investigated the success ...
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(2009-06-02)In the U.S., the prevalence rates of obesity and asthma have increased over the past 20 years and led to speculation that a correlation exists between them. Most of the research that has been conducted on the association ...
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(2021-11-15)The purpose of this study was to analyze whether changes in weight, BMI, anthropometrics, and body composition over the course of a 10-week weight loss intervention would promote changes in psychological measures, including ...
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(2017-03-29)This dissertation includes three essays. The first essay examines time-varying nonlinear dependence and asymmetries of commodity futures from 1999 to 2015. We consider several elliptical copulas with dynamic conditional ...
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(2016-12-08)This dissertation investigates, in a causal way, how interactions of student with teachers and peers affect his or her educational outcome. First, we use random assignment of students to Korean middle school classrooms ...