Zoltán Lantos

To compare sex-specific body composition changes after a structured lifestyle intervention in Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) personnel and to describe baseline dietary, behavioral, and psychological profiles. This quasi-experimental pilot study included 40 active-duty participants (21 men, 19 women), aged 24-55 years, enrolled in an ongoing HDF lifestyle program. The 6-month intervention integrated individualized dietary counselling, supervised physical training 3 times weekly, and weekly cognitive-behavioral group sessions. Body composition was assessed at baseline (D0) and after 6 months (D1). Psychological, behavioral, and physical activity variables were assessed at baseline only as profile measures. At baseline, age and body mass index (BMI) did not differ significantly between sexes. Men had higher body weight, skeletal muscle mass, visceral fat, and phase angle, whereas women had higher body fat percentage. In both sexes, body weight, BMI, and body fat percentage decreased significantly over 6 months. In men, body weight decreased by mean±standard deviation (M±SD) 9.25±11.68 kg (p = 0.001), BMI by M±SD 2.73±2.97 kg/m² (p = 0.007), body fat percentage by M±SD 3.77±4.94 percentage points (pp) (p = 0.011), and skeletal muscle mass increased by M±SD 1.70±3.58 kg (p = 0.029). In women, body weight decreased by M±SD 5.79±5.88 kg (p = 0.005), BMI by M±SD 2.27±2.47 kg/m² (p = 0.024), and body fat percentage by M±SD 2.66±3.53 pp (p = 0.030), whereas skeletal muscle mass increased non-significantly by M±SD 1.13±1.76 kg (p = 0.063). Baseline profiles were otherwise similar, except for higher energy intake in men and higher eating behavior scores in women. In this pilot sample, participation in a structured multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention was associated with meaningful body composition improvements in both sexes, although response patterns differed. These findings support further evaluation of tailored multidisciplinary lifestyle interventions in military occupational health practice. Med Pr Work Health Saf. 2026;77(3).

Korábbi tapasztalatok azt mutatják, hogy a 7–10 hetes szabványos katonai alapkiképzés pozitív hatással van az újoncok fizikai teljesítményére és testösszetételére. Az aerob erőnlét és az izomerő akár 10–15%-kal is javulhat. A szerzők célja az volt, hogy megvizsgálják a 2 hetes felkészítésből, 5 hetes alapkiképzésből és további 2 hetes lövészképzésből álló EAP 24-2 alapkiképzés hatásait a testalkati mutatókra és az erőre. Az irányított katonai testnevelési foglalkozásoknak köszönhető kezdeti pozitív testalkati változások a teljes kiképzési ciklus végére eltűntek. Maradandó változásként a testtömeg (+1,60 kg a mediánok között), valamint a marokszorító erő kis mértékű növekedése (a mediánok alapján: 3,2% a jobb kéz esetében és 2,3% a bal kéz esetében) volt detektálható. Az eredmények egyrészt indokolhatók azzal, hogy az antropometriai adatok átlagos kiinduló értékei viszonylag megfelelőek voltak. Másrészt a kezdeti előnyös változások megszűnésének magyarázatához a mindennapi kalóriaegyensúly felülvizsgálata volna szükséges.

This paper investigates the role of socioeconomic considerations in the formation of official COVID-19 reports. To this end, we employ a dataset that contains 1159 pre-processed indicators from the World Bank Group GovData360 and TCdata360 platforms and an additional 8 COVID-19 variables generated based on reports from 138 countries. During the analysis, a rank-correlation-based complex method is used to identify the time- and space-varying relations between pandemic variables and the main topics of World Bank Group platforms. The results not only draw attention to the importance of factors such as air traffic, tourism, and corruption in report formation but also support further discipline-specific research by mapping and monitoring a wide range of such relationships. To this end, a source code written in R language is attached that allows for the customization of the analysis and provides up-to-date results.

This paper investigates the role of socioeconomic considerations in the formation of official COVID-19 reports. To this end, we employ a dataset that contains 1,159 preprocessed indicators from the World Bank Group GovData360 and TCdata360 platforms and an additional 8 COVID-19 variables generated based on reports from 138 countries. During the analysis, a rank-correlation-based complex method is used to identify the time- and space-varying relations between pandemic variables and the main topics of World Bank Group platforms. The results not only draw attention to the importance of factors such as air traffic, tourism, and corruption in report formation but also support further discipline-specific research by mapping and monitoring a wide range of such relationships. To this end, an R Notebook is attached that allows for the customization of the analysis and provides up-to-date results.

Cross-border areas and cross-border cooperation are one of the priorities of the EU policy. Those areas, often rich in recreational, cultural and natural resources provide a great potential for the development of sustainable tourism. The article analyzes the tourism in the Croatian-Hungarian (HR-HU) cross-border area under the assumption that different interventions can influence the perception of tourists and contribute to the realization of the full potential of the area. The method applied in the analysis is the gravity model. The results obtained by the model were tested with online in-depth interviews with three experts having backgrounds in entrepreneurship, decision making and the non-governmental sector, and focus groups, consisting of 31 experts in the field, show that altogether 72% of the tourists cross the border during a trip to the HR-HU border regions. Almost half of the respondents plan and organize programs during the trip. The main sources of collecting information about a trip are friends, family members and acquaintances, while 80% of the respondents also use at least one online tool for planning of the trip. In order to improve tourism indicators in the Croatian-Hungarian cross-border area, development of a cross-border online platform is being envisaged that would integrate different services and attractions, collect and utilize data, being the most important new raw material, thus opening a completely new space for virtual tourism.