Greg Pavela

TL;DR: Providing instrumental support to peers increased the odds of complete and partial recovery from severe mobility limitation, net of numerous social, and health factors, and the influence of partner status on partial and complete recovery varied by gender.

TL;DR: The Rational Space between dismissal and defense of the status quo was discussed at a workshop entitled "Toward more rigorous and informative nutritional epidemiology: the rational space between dismissal, defense and reform" as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Subjective social status (SSS), perceived rank in the social ladder, is associated with weight, but determinants of SSS in youth remain unknown.

TL;DR: By considering the argument that obesity poses a national security threat, there is potential to broaden public support as individuals and groups who might not have had a traditional interest in obesity might glean the importance of this disease on their national standing and personal wellbeing.

TL;DR: An experimental design, randomization to randomization probabilities (R2R), is proposed, which significantly improves estimates of treatment effects under actual conditions of use by manipulating participant expectations about receiving treatment.