Time trend in height, weight, and obesity prevalence in school children from Northern France, 1992-2000.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the changes in height, weight and in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between 1992 and 2000 in children living in two towns of northern France.

Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were performed in every pre-school (last section) and primary schools of the two towns in 1992 (383 girls and 421 boys enrolled) and 2000 (296 girls and 305 boys). Children were 5 to 12 year old in both studies.

Anthropometric estimates of muscle and fat mass in relation to cardiac and cancer mortality in men: the Paris Prospective Study.

Background: The associations of different components of body mass with disease outcomes are not well defined.

Objective: We investigated the effects of body composition on risk of death from cardiac causes and cancer in adult men.

Design: Middle-aged men (n = 7608) in the Paris Prospective Study were followed up for 15 y.

From policemen to policies: what is the future for 2-h glucose? The Kelly West Lecture, 2000.

Objective: To describe the characteristics and vital prognosis of men with diabetes diagnosed by one fasting plasma glucose (FPG) concentration > or =7.0 mmol/l, with diabetes diagnosed by one isolated postchallenge hyperglycemia (IPH) (FPG <7.0 mmol/l and a 2-h plasma glucose concentration > or =11.

Reproducibility of the diagnosis of diabetes over a 30-month follow-up: the Paris Prospective Study.

Objective: To describe the change in diabetic status over 30 months.

Research Design And Methods: Cohort study of 5,400 Caucasian men from the Paris Prospective Study, aged 44-55 years, who were not known as having diabetes at baseline. Oral glucose tolerance tests were performed at baseline and after 30 months.