scholarly journals Assessment of Public Attitudes Toward Weight Loss Surgery in the United States

JAMA Surgery ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Dolan ◽  
Cheguevara Afaneh ◽  
Matthew Symer ◽  
Gregory F. Dakin ◽  
Alfons Pomp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Percutaneous gastrostomy tube placement in a patient with prior sleeve gastrectomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Taylor Alexander Pate ◽  
Daniel William O’Neal ◽  
Chris Dobzyniak
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Sleeve Gastrectomy ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tube Placement ◽  
Percutaneous Gastrostomy ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Gastrostomy Tube Placement ◽  
Gastrostomy Tubes ◽  
Percutaneous Gastrostomy Tube

Sleeve gastrectomies have quickly become the most common bariatric weight loss surgery performed in the United States (U.S.). Given that hundreds of thousands of gastrostomy tubes (G tubes) are also placed each year, the number of patients with prior sleeve gastrectomies requiring a G tube will surely rise in the coming years. The case presented herein is a patient with prior sleeve gastrectomy who underwent percutaneous G tube placement.

scholarly journals Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kozyreva ◽  
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen ◽  
Ralph Hertwig ◽  
Stephan Lewandowsky ◽  
Stefan M. Herzog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Personalized Services

AbstractPeople rely on data-driven AI technologies nearly every time they go online, whether they are shopping, scrolling through news feeds, or looking for entertainment. Yet despite their ubiquity, personalization algorithms and the associated large-scale collection of personal data have largely escaped public scrutiny. Policy makers who wish to introduce regulations that respect people’s attitudes towards privacy and algorithmic personalization on the Internet would greatly benefit from knowing how people perceive personalization and personal data collection. To contribute to an empirical foundation for this knowledge, we surveyed public attitudes towards key aspects of algorithmic personalization and people’s data privacy concerns and behavior using representative online samples in Germany (N = 1065), Great Britain (N = 1092), and the United States (N = 1059). Our findings show that people object to the collection and use of sensitive personal information and to the personalization of political campaigning and, in Germany and Great Britain, to the personalization of news sources. Encouragingly, attitudes are independent of political preferences: People across the political spectrum share the same concerns about their data privacy and show similar levels of acceptance regarding personalized digital services and the use of private data for personalization. We also found an acceptability gap: People are more accepting of personalized services than of the collection of personal data and information required for these services. A large majority of respondents rated, on average, personalized services as more acceptable than the collection of personal information or data. The acceptability gap can be observed at both the aggregate and the individual level. Across countries, between 64% and 75% of respondents showed an acceptability gap. Our findings suggest a need for transparent algorithmic personalization that minimizes use of personal data, respects people’s preferences on personalization, is easy to adjust, and does not extend to political advertising.

scholarly journals Religious beliefs and public attitudes toward nanotechnology in Europe and the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietram A. Scheufele ◽  
Elizabeth A. Corley ◽  
Tsung-jen Shih ◽  
Kajsa E. Dalrymple ◽  
Shirley S. Ho
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Long-term weight loss maintenance in the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1644-1654 ◽  
Author(s):  
J L Kraschnewski ◽  
J Boan ◽  
J Esposito ◽  
N E Sherwood ◽  
E B Lehman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Weight Loss Maintenance ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Potential Impacts of Commercial Weight Loss Diet Recommendations on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States (P04-169-19)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ramsing ◽  
Brent Kim ◽  
Roni Neff
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Weight Watchers

Abstract Objectives To understand potential climate implications of dietary patterns associated with commercial weight loss diets, we tested the hypothesis that different consumption patterns of six commercial weight loss diets would shift United States greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) if followed on a large scale. Methods An estimated 50–70% of adults are interested in controlling their weight with diets, many advocating lower carbohydrate, higher fat and higher animal protein intake. While considerable research exists on the environmental and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) implications of dietary patterns, no identified work has focused similarly on weight loss diets. Atkins, Biggest Loser, DASH, Weight Watchers, Keto and Whole30 diets were selected for this study based on consumer visibility, market share, and documented efficacy. Official 1-week sample plans were collected to create representative samples of each diet and converted to unprocessed primary equivalents. Cradle-to-farm gate GHGEs for individual food items were adapted from FAO's Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model and 732 data points from 115 life cycle assessment studies. Results Estimated GHGEs varied significantly across the diet meal plans. Whole30 and showed the highest GHGEs per capita, while Keto, Biggest Loser and Atkins were lower but over twice that of DASH and Weight Watchers, which had the lowest. The largest single category value for each diet was bovine meat, suggesting that lowering recommendations for consumption of bovine meat could significantly decrease the GHGEs of each diet. Conclusions Our results provide a better understanding of potential costs and benefits associated with dietary recommendations for weight loss, critical to identifying impactful opportunities to shift dietary patterns toward public health and ecological goals, particularly reducing meat and increasing consumption of vegetables and pulses. Funding Sources Support provided by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) with a gift from the GRACE Communications Foundation.

Beliefs and Stereotypes About LGBT People

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary R. Hicks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Lgbt Individuals

The public’s perception of, beliefs about, and interest in LGBT individuals and the issues impacting them has long had great significance to the community’s social, political, and legal progress. The last decade has seen monumental changes in public attitudes about LGBT people and the laws that affect them in the United States and around the world. Much of this change has been positive, including the landmark Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage. In some parts of the world—even those that have witnessed great strides for LGBT equality—there have also been signs of a backlash against the community’s newfound rights and visibility in society. Stereotypes of LGBT individuals, mostly negative, have been responsible for much of this reaction, as well as their historically negative view in by the public. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the mass media has played a major role in creating and perpetuating these stereotypes.

Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany. By Joel S. Fetzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 272p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-262
Author(s):  
Gallya Lahav
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
Industrialized Democracies ◽  
Immigration Politics ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigration

Joel Fetzer is to be congratulated for a serious attempt to bring a public opinion approach to comparative immigration politics. His book represents an ambitious step toward bridging the gap between policy input and output in the immigration equation of advanced industrialized democracies. Its occasional choppy organization and underdeveloped data analysis tend to distract from the import of the work and leave the reader yearning for a deeper and more substantive discussion.

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