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Number, derived by using height and weight measurements, that gives a general indication if weight falls within a healthy range.

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Black Patients With Chronic Pain Less Likely To Have Obesity Assessed

Published October 15, 2008, 7:09 am, Medical News Today

At the intersection of two U.S. health epidemics - obesity and chronic pain - researchers from the University of Michigan Health System found black patients with chronic pain were less likely to have their weight or body mass index (BMI) recorded, even though they are at higher risk for having obesity when compared with their white counterparts.

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DMAA Launches Online Obesity Resource Center For Professionals, Consumers - Groundbreaking Approach To Obesity Benefit ...

Published October 15, 2008, 3:08 am, Medical News Today

DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance today launched a Web site of information and tools for health plans, employers, physicians, consumers and others in the fight against obesity and its associated conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease. The DMAA Obesity Resource Center, at orc.dmaa.

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Political Blog

Published October 15, 2008, 12:54 am, Arkansas News Bureau

From the Stephens Media team in Arkansas and Washington D.C. Credit markets still causing problems for loan authority, students By Jason Wiest LITTLE ROCK - The constriction of national credit markets could start choking off profits for the Arkansas Student Loan Authority, its director told lawmakers Tuesday.

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More US Adults Living With High Blood Pressure

Published October 14, 2008, 1:06 pm, Medical News Today

Two new national health studies show that more adults in the US are living with hypertension than ever before; while this is bad news in that the proportion of the population with high blood pressure has gone up, it is also good news in that more people are living with rather than dying from high blood pressure.

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Black patients with chronic pain less likely to have obesity assessed

Published October 14, 2008, 9:30 am, EurekAlert!

( University of Michigan Health System ) Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System have found that black patients with chronic pain were less likely to have their weight or body mass index recorded, even though they are at higher risk for having obesity when compared with their white counterparts.

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Primary care records improve public health information

Published October 14, 2008, 8:07 am, PhysOrg

Gaining a fuller and more accurate picture of trends in the most important disease risk factors is now possible, thanks to a project between the NHS Information Centre and QResearch(R).

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Primary care records improve public health information

Published October 14, 2008, 7:45 am, EurekAlert!

( University of Nottingham ) Gaining a fuller and more accurate picture of trends in the most important disease risk factors is now possible, thanks to a project between the NHS Information Center and QResearch.

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Study zaps video game stereotypes

Published October 14, 2008, 2:22 am, SouthtownStar

The stereotype of online gamers may be wrong. They are by and large not obese teenage boys. Instead, they're older and fitter than the general U.S. population, and a surprising number are female. Of the 7,000 players of the online game "EverQuest 2," the average age was 31.

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Political Blog

Published October 14, 2008, 12:54 am, Arkansas News Bureau

From the Stephens Media team in Arkansas and Washington D.C. Greenland, Decatur districts projected to end school year with positive balances By John Lyon LITTLE ROCK - State-appointed superintendents of two financially troubled school districts in Northwest Arkansas told the state Board of Education Monday they expect to end the current school year in the black.

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My journey to weight loss

Published October 13, 2008, 6:07 am, The Herald-Mail

I am obese. I am about to have gastric bypass surgery, and I want to write this for people considering weight-loss surgery. This is my story.

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