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If you choose to follow any links to the complete text of articles listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Scott Weber Designing Seed Mixes for Prairie Restorations: Revisiting the Formula. (... the author offers tips based on his own experiences for planting and cultivating a restored prairie that will contain the diversity of plant species more closely approximating that found in surviving remnants of original prairies and savannas) Ecological Restoration/North America Volume 17, Number 4 (Winter 1999): 196-201. Carlos A. Camargo, Jr., Scott T. Weiss, Shumin Zhang, Walter C. Willett, and Frank E. Speizer Prospective Study of Body Mass Index, Weight Change, and Risk of Adult-onset Asthma in Women. (... the authors preformed a prospective study involving some 85,911 women [registered nurses in the United States] from 26 to 46 years of age. The health of the women was followed from 1991 to 1995. During those 4 years, some 1,600 cases of asthma were identified. After controlling for several factors [age, smoking, physical activity, etc.] that might also lead to asthma, the authors found that the BMI [body mass index--which is calculated as the weight of a person in kilograms divided by the square of a person's height in meters] has a strong, independent, and positive association with risk of adult-onset asthma. The researchers found that the higher the body mass index, the stronger the risk of the development of asthma. They also concluded that the increasing prevalence of obesity in developed nations may help explain concomitant increases in asthma prevalence--from the abstract on the Archives of Internal Medicine Web site) Archives of Internal Medicine Volume 159, Number 21 (November 22, 1999): 2582-2588. **An abstract of this article is currently available through the Web site of Archives of Internal Medicine** Mark M. Wilson and Richard S. Irwin The Association of Asthma and Obesity: Is It Real or a Matter of Definition, Presbyterian Ministers' Salaries, and Earlobe Creases? (... an editorial that critically analyzes the methods and results of the above study--Prospective Study of Body Mass Index, Weight Change, and Risk of Adult-onset Asthma in Women. The authors question whether there is, in fact, a strong direct relationship between asthma and obesity) Archives of Internal Medicine Volume 159, Number 21 (November 22, 1999): 2513-2514. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of Archives of Internal Medicine** How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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