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Open AccessBeneficial and harmful effects of physical activity on care-seeking for low back pain: the AUTBACK study
People who seek more care for low back pain (LBP) tend to experience poorer recovery (e.g. higher pain and disability levels). Understanding the factors associated with care-seeking for LBP might improve patie...
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Open AccessCorrection: Beneficial and harmful effects of physical activity on care‑seeking for low back pain: the AUTBACK study
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Open AccessImplementation and evaluation of a quality improvement initiative to reduce late gestation stillbirths in Australia: Safer Baby Bundle study protocol
In 2015, the stillbirth rate after 28 weeks (late gestation) in Australia was 35% higher than countries with the lowest rates globally. Reductions in late gestation stillbirth rates have steadily improved in A...
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Open AccessAssessing physical activity in people with mental illness: 23-country reliability and validity of the simple physical activity questionnaire (SIMPAQ)
Physical inactivity is a key contributor to the global burden of disease and disproportionately impacts the wellbeing of people experiencing mental illness. Increases in physical activity are associated with i...
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The Funding, Administrative, and Policy Influences on the Evaluation of Primary Prevention Programs in Australia
Evaluation of primary prevention and health promotion programs contributes necessary information to the evidence base for prevention programs. There is increasing demand for high-quality evaluation of program ...
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Open AccessThe Beneficial Effects of Physical Activity: Is It Down to Your Genes? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Twin and Family Studies
There is evidence for considerable heterogeneity in the responsiveness to regular physical activity (PA) which might reflect the influence of genetic factors. The aim of this systematic review was to assess wh...
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Open Access30-year trends in overweight, obesity and waist-to-height ratio by socioeconomic status in Australian children, 1985 to 2015
To report 30-year (1985–2015) prevalence trends in overweight, obesity and abdominal obesity among children by school level and socioeconomic status (SES).
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Modelling obesity trends in Australia: unravelling the past and predicting the future
Modelling is increasingly being used to predict the epidemiology of obesity progression and its consequences. The aims of this study were: (a) to present and validate a model for prediction of obesity among Au...
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Age-specific changes in BMI and BMI distribution among Australian adults using cross-sectional surveys from 1980 to 2008
Research efforts have focused mainly on trends in obesity among populations, or changes in mean body mass index (BMI), without consideration of changes in BMI across the BMI spectrum. Examination of age-specif...
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Hémorragies méningées
L’hémorragie méningée ou sous-arachnoïdienne (HSA) représente 1 à 5 % de l’ensemble des accidents vasculaires cérébraux, mais avant 35 ans, cette proportion passe à 50 % [1]. Par conséquent, d’un point de vue ...
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Are artificial reefs surrogates of natural habitats for corals and fish in Dubai, United Arab Emirates?
Artificial reefs are often promoted as mitigating human impacts in coastal ecosystems and enhancing fisheries; however, evidence supporting their benefits is equivocal. Such structures must be compared with na...
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A-Kinase Anchoring Proteins as the Basis for cAMP Signaling
Common challenges to any cell are the processing of the extracellular stimuli it receives into intracellular signaling cascades that initiate a multitude of diverse biological functions. However, many of these...
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Health-enhancing physical activity across European Union countries: the Eurobarometer study
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends the development of comparable national physical activity surveillance systems to assess trends within and amongst countries as the Global Strategy for Diet and Ph...
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Risk factors for low birth weight in a socio-economically disadvantaged population: Parity, marital status, ethnicity and cigarette smoking
Low birth weight (LBW) is a public health problem, because it is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. The principal aim of this study was to assess risk factors for LBW in a large multi-e...
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Associations of physical activity with body weight and fat in men and women
OBJECTIVE: Increasing physical activity is strongly advocated as a key public health strategy for weight gain prevention. We investigated associations of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and occupational/dom...
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Forced vital capacity in two large outpatient populations with chronic spinal cord injury
Objective: To determine the expected vital capacity in persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) in relation to injury level, completeness of injury, smoking and duration of injury, as an aid to diagnosis and...
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The relationship between body mass index and waist circumference: implications for estimates of the population prevalence of overweight
OBJECTIVE: Body mass index (BMI) based on self‐reported height and weight is a systematically biased, but acceptable measure of adiposity and is commonly used in population surveys. Recent studies indicate tha...
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The association between television viewing and overweight among Australian adults participating in varying levels of leisure-time physical activity
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of physical activity on the association between television viewing and overweight (body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m2).
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Erratum: High-dose chemotherapy, autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation and post-transplant consolidation chemotherapy in patients with advanced breast cancer
High-dose chemotherapy, autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation and post-transplant consolidation chemotherapy in patients with advanced breast cancer
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High-dose chemotherapy, autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation and post-transplant consolidation chemotherapy in patients with advanced breast cancer
This study was designed to determine the complete response (CR) rate, event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer treated with an adriamycin-based induction re...
