Background Eating behaviors during childhood are related both to children’s diet quality and
to their weight status. A better understanding of the determinants of eating behavior during …

Background Assessments of the dietary intakes in various populations suggest that pregnant
women have difficulty meeting all their nutritional requirements through diet alone. Few …

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began with a detected
cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Endemic transmission was …

Our study compares adequacy of nutritional intakes among pregnant women with different
prepregnancy BMI and explores associations between nutritional intakes during pregnancy …

Objective Recent research found that inmates experience undesirable and rapid weight gain
during incarceration in Canadian federal penitentiaries. However, little is known about what …

Background: Very little is known about how incarceration influences a person’s weight in
Canada. We sought to determine how inmates’ weights change during their incarceration in …

Background Canadian penitentiaries have recently been shown to be obesogenic. However,
little is known about the eating habits of inmates who gained weight while living in the …

There is a lack of evidence pointing to specific dietary elements related to weight gain and
obesity prevention in childhood and adulthood. Dietary intake and obesity are both inherited …

We consider a discrete-time risk process driven by proportional reinsurance and an interest
rate process. We assume that the interest rate process behaves as a Markov chain. To …

Ruin probabilities in a controlled discrete-time risk process with a Markov chain interest are
studied. To reduce the risk of ruin there is a possibility to reinsure a part or the whole reserve. …