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McMaster Plus Public Health + comes to you via the McMaster Health Knowledge Refinery. Every article from over 120 medical and allied health academic journals is critically appraised to identify those that are methodologically sound. Articles that pass this process are rated (maximum 7) by clinicians for relevance and newsworthiness, and are then sent to this website. The articles are updated weekly and a searchable archive is kept on this website.

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Identification of waist circumference cutoffs for abdominal obesity in the Chinese population: a 7.8-year follow-up study in the Shanghai urban area.
Source: Int J Obes (Lond). 2009 Sep;33(9):1058-62. Epub 2009 Jul 7.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Slow walking speed and cardiovascular death in well functioning older adults: prospective cohort study.
Source: BMJ. 2009 Nov 10;339:b4460. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4460.
Relevance Rating: 4
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7;(4):CD006611.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Improving Fecal Occult Blood Testing Compliance Using a Mailed Educational Reminder.
Source: J Gen Intern Med. 2009 Sep 23.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Childhood predictors of the metabolic syndrome in middle-aged adults: the Muscatine study.
Source: J Pediatr. 2009 Sep;155(3):S5.e17-26.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Critical Care Services and 2009 H1N1 Influenza in Australia and New Zealand.
Source: N Engl J Med. 2009 Oct 8.
Relevance Rating: 7
Newsworthiness Rating: 6

Routine pre-pregnancy health promotion for improving pregnancy outcomes.
Source: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7;(4):CD007536.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Cardiorespiratory fitness and the risk of overweight in youth: the Healthy Hearts Longitudinal Study of Cardiometabolic Health.
Source: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Sep;17(9):1802-7. Epub 2009 Mar 12.
Relevance Rating: 7
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

Outcomes and costs of primary care surveillance and intervention for overweight or obese children: the LEAP 2 randomised controlled trial.
Source: BMJ. 2009 Sep 3;339:b3308. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3308.
Relevance Rating: 5
Newsworthiness Rating: 5

Critically Ill patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Mexico.
Source: JAMA. 2009 Nov 4;302(17):1880-7. Epub 2009 Oct 12.
Relevance Rating: 6
Newsworthiness Rating: 4

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