The relationship between rural status, individual characteristics, and self-rated health in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Purpose: To examine rural status and social factors as predictors of self-rated health in community-dwelling adults in the United States.

Methods: This study uses multinomial logistic and cumulative logistic models to evaluate the associations of interest in the 2006 U.S.

A model curriculum for a course on the built environment and public health: training for an interdisciplinary workforce.

Despite growing evidence of the direct and indirect effects of the built environment on public health, planners, who shape the built environment, and public health professionals, who protect the public's health, rarely interact. Most public health professionals have little experience with urban planners, zoning boards, city councils, and others who make decisions about the built environment. Likewise, few planners understand the health implications of design, land use, or transportation decisions.

Obesity, physical activity, and the urban environment: public health research needs.

Persistent trends in overweight and obesity have resulted in a rapid research effort focused on built environment, physical activity, and overweight. Much of the focus of this research has been on the design and form of suburbs. It suggests that several features of the suburban built environment such as low densities, poor street connectivity and the lack of sidewalks are associated with decreased physical activity and an increased risk of being overweight.

Systemic and forearm triglyceride metabolism: fate of lipoprotein lipase-generated glycerol and free fatty acids.

Little is known about the fate of the lipolytic products produced by the action of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) on circulating triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in humans. We studied eight lean, healthy male subjects after an overnight fast. Subjects received infusions of lipid emulsions containing triolein labeled with (3)H on both the glycerol backbone and the fatty acid portion of the molecule; (14)C glycerol and (14)C oleate were coinfused to quantify the systemic and forearm release of (3)H glycerol and (3)H oleate resulting from LPL action.