• It is most common in infants and little children, typically between the ages of six to seven months to three years, although it may pathologically manifest itself in older children, adolescents and adults. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study is the first to estimate the economic burden of health disparities for 5 racial and ethnic minority groups and 3 education groups (i.e., adults without a 4-year college degree) at the national level and for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (nih.gov)
  • Looking at the long-term consequences, overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight or obese adults, which increases to 80 percent if one or more parent is overweight or obese. (hhs.gov)
  • Based on these findings, it should be as important to encourage adolescents and young adults to build broad social relationships and social skills for interacting with others as it is to eat healthy and be physically active," said Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and faculty fellow at the Carolina Population Center (CPC). (newswise.com)
  • The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , builds on previous research that shows that aging adults live longer if they have more social connections. (newswise.com)
  • Andes LJ, Cheng YJ, Rolka DB, Gregg EW, Imperatore G . Prevalence of Prediabetes Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2005-2016 . (cdc.gov)
  • The current study examined whether dispositional gratitude predicts physical health among adults, and if so, whether this relationship occurs because grateful individuals lead healthier lives, either psychologically or physically. (researchgate.net)
  • Specifically, we examined whether psychological health, healthy activities, and willingness to seek help for health concerns mediated the link between gratitude and self-reported physical health, as well as if these mediational pathways are moderated by age, in a broad sample of Swiss adults (N = 962, M(age) = 52 years, age range: 19 to 84). (researchgate.net)
  • However, the indirect effects for psychological health and healthy activities were stronger for older than younger adults. (researchgate.net)
  • Most are adults younger than age 35 when they return home from service. (cdc.gov)
  • Chronic kidney disease biomarkers and mortality among older adults: A comparison study of survey samples in China and the United States. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • Effect of FOXO3 and Air Pollution on Cognitive Function: A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Older Adults in China from 2000 to 2014. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • Association between Dairy Product Intake and Risk of Fracture among Adults: A Cohort Study from China Health and Nutrition Survey. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • METHODS Children and young adults who were born between 1967 and 1979 within 1 of 4 affiliated family practices of the Nijmegen Department of Family Medicine, the Netherlands, were asked to participate in an asthma study in 1989. (annfammed.org)
  • In 1989, a cohort of children and young adults from 4 affiliated family practices in the Netherlands was identified for an asthma study based on date of birth. (annfammed.org)
  • HIV virologic response, patterns of drug resistance mutations and correlates among adolescents and young adults: A cross-sectional study in Tanzania. (cdc.gov)
  • We hereby report virologic outcomes and patterns of acquired DRMs and its associated factors among adolescents and young adults (AYA) from a broader HIV drug resistance surveillance conducted in Tanzania. (cdc.gov)
  • Public health organizations and healthcare systems can use these data to track antibiotic use and guide antibiotic stewardship interventions for older adults. (cdc.gov)
  • Substance use and substance use disorders in a community sample of adolescents and young adults: incidence, age effects and patterns of use. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Cardiovascular diseases in adults are associated with cardio-metabolic factors including hypertension, dyslipidaemia, abdominal obesity and abnormal glucose regulation- the combination of which is known as metabolic syndrome (MetS) [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although there is a well-known association between cardiorespiratory endurance and health outcomes in adults, the measurement of cardiorespiratory endurance in youth and of its relationship to health outcomes is relatively new to the literature. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Because acute medical complications of obesity are less common in children and adolescents than in adults, and because longitudinal data on the relation between childhood weight and adult morbidity and mortality are more difficult to interpret, no single definition of obesity in childhood and adolescence has gained universal approval. (medscape.com)
  • Nevertheless, children and adolescents defined as overweight or obese according to published criteria are highly likely to maintain this ponderal status as adults. (medscape.com)
  • Cardiovascular risk factors and atherosclerosis in children and young adults. (jamanetwork.com)
  • A recent study found that most Australian adults associated alcohol use with Globally, alcohol consumption is one of the leading liver cirrhosis and cancer, but only a small proportion risk factors for death and disability ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • England in adults aged 18 years showed that level of most prevalent in young adults aged 18-29 years ( 4 ). (who.int)
  • A secondary etiology of hypertension is much more likely in children than in adults, with renal parenchymal disease and renovascular disease being the most common. (aafp.org)
  • Not only was there a lack of data on long-term outcomes, but also the research community was only just beginning to understand the importance of the intrauterine environment for long-term child health. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Only by knowing the magnitude of causal relationships can one say with certainty that recommending a certain amount of GWG will result in altered frequency of adverse child health outcomes. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Overcoming persistent disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes remains a foremost challenge. (nih.gov)
  • The study combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships, providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviors in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. (nih.gov)
  • A few studies have assessed gratitude and related outcomes in healthcare education stakeholders. (researchgate.net)
  • Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Outcomes of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and Adolescents-a Live Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • This underlines the displacement of physical activity in favour of screen-based activities which may associate with adverse health outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Until more data are collected with which to establish criterion-referenced cut-points (cutoff scores), interim cut-points corresponding to the lowest 20th percentile of the distribution of cardiorespiratory endurance should be used to interpret results of all cardiorespiratory endurance tests and to determine whether individuals are at risk of negative health outcomes. (nationalacademies.org)
  • This chapter presents the committee's review of the scientific literature that explores the relationship between specific field tests of cardiorespiratory endurance and health outcomes in youth. (nationalacademies.org)
  • An active lifestyle early in life is not just important for health outcomes in adolescence but may also be a significant factor for the level of activity in adulthood and health-related physical fitness [ 7 - 10 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Currently, there is substantial political and societal pressure to demonstrate the integration of the best available research evidence with local contextual factors, so as to provide the most effective health services in optimizing health outcomes [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Patients with rheumatoid arthritis spend most of their daily hours in sedentary behavior (sitting), a predisposing factor to poor health-related outcomes and all-cause mortality. (edu.au)
  • However, the impact of preeclampsia in infancy (birth to 2 years), a time of rapid development influenced by pre- and postnatal factors that can predict future health outcomes, remains inconclusive. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This narrative review of 23 epidemiological and basic science studies assessed the measurement and impact of preeclampsia exposure on infant growth and psychomotor developmental outcomes from birth to 2 years. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Robust early detection of abnormal growth and development trajectories may aid the development of novel therapeutic interventions to improve childhood health outcomes for infants exposed to preeclampsia. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Thus, we review the fetal, neonatal and long-term consequences of preeclampsia exposure, discuss differing ways to measure infant growth and developmental outcomes, and review studies of infant growth and psychomotor development associated with preeclampsia exposure. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Given that these outcomes have been identified by the UK Department of Health as of particular interest for UK benefit, investment of research in these areas is recommended to establish a clearer picture of both short and long-term consequences. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although longitudinal outcomes can carry substantial weight in decisions of cost-effectiveness, randomised controlled trials are often limited in their ability to measure outcomes over a longer time frame due to feasibility and funding restraints [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This concept, more likely to suffer from worse health, health outcomes has been referred known as embodiment, was initially diseases, and disabilities across the to as a social fact, given its ubiqui- developed by Krieger (2005) and oc- life-course, especially in older age. (who.int)
  • The number of adolescents who are overweight has tripled since 1980 and the prevalence among younger children has more than doubled. (hhs.gov)
  • 14 Specific causes for the increase in prevalence of childhood obesity are not clear and establishing causality is difficult since longitudinal research in this area is limited. (hhs.gov)
  • The prevalence of infant, childhood and adolescent obesity is rising around the world. (who.int)
  • A complex array of factors that include sociocultural background, personality traits that may be more common to people who join the military, combat exposure, military culture, reintegration challenges, military career path, alcohol abuse, and emotional or mental health issues likely underlies this high prevalence of tobacco use, which has also been observed in prior conflicts (4,5). (cdc.gov)
  • Merikangas KR, He JP, Burstein M, Swanson SA, Avenevoli S, Cui L, Benjet C, Georgiades K, Swendsen J. Lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in US adolescents: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) [published online July 31, 2010]. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Prevalence, correlates, disability, and comorbidity of DSM-IV drug abuse and dependence in the United States: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Its prevalence has increased so significantly in recent years that many consider it a major health concern of the developed world. (medscape.com)
  • The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicates that the prevalence of obesity is increasing in all pediatric age groups, in both sexes, and in various ethnic and racial groups. (medscape.com)
  • In persons three to 18 years of age, the prevalence of prehypertension is 3.4 percent and the prevalence of hypertension is 3.6 percent. (aafp.org)
  • 1 The combined prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension in adolescents who are obese is greater than 30 percent in boys and is 23 to 30 percent in girls. (aafp.org)
  • 7 , 8 Despite the high prevalence and potential risks of hypertension in children, physicians often do not recognize the condition in this population. (aafp.org)
  • The prevalence of sepsis and septic shock in our study is comparable to other published series. (bvsalud.org)
  • Early (pre- and postnatal) life is a critical period during which environmental factors may programme adaptive mechanisms that will persist in adulthood. (nature.com)
  • Childhood overweight and obesity often persist in adulthood, which increases the risks of premature mortality and physical morbidity across the lifespan [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Overweight and obesity in children are significant public health problems in the United States. (hhs.gov)
  • NHANES found that African American and Mexican American adolescents ages 12-19 were more likely to be overweight, at 21 percent and 23 percent respectively, than non-Hispanic White adolescents (14 percent). (hhs.gov)
  • 6,7 In a national survey of American Indian children 5-18 years old, 39 percent were found to be overweight or at risk for overweight. (hhs.gov)
  • Being overweight during childhood and adolescence increases the risk of developing high cholesterol, hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problems, depression and type 2 diabetes as a youth. (hhs.gov)
  • One disease of particular concern is Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to overweight and obesity and has increased dramatically in children and adolescents, particularly in American Indian, African American and Hispanic/Latino populations. (hhs.gov)
  • Overweight in children and adolescents is generally caused by a lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating patterns resulting in excess energy intake, or a combination of the two. (hhs.gov)
  • Another study found pregnancy has been associated with low birth weight, a that smoking during the 12 months before birth of a child marker of risk for obesity and other metabolic disorders was associated with adolescent overweight (21). (cdc.gov)
  • Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in a US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sample were more likely to be overweight but less likely to be obese compared with national same-age samples (11). (cdc.gov)
  • Furthermore, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who are overweight or obese are at increased risk for hypertension (13). (cdc.gov)
  • Some investigators have used the terms overweight, obese, and morbidly obese to refer to children and adolescents whose weights exceed those expected for heights by 20%, 50%, and 80-100%, respectively. (medscape.com)
  • [ 2 ] Consensus committees have recommended that children and adolescents be considered overweight or obese if the BMI exceeds the 85th or 95th percentiles, on curves generated from the 1963-1965 and 1966-1970 NHANES, or exceeds 30 kg/m 2 at any age. (medscape.com)
  • Objectives To analyse the physical activity carried out by the adolescents in the study, its relationship to being overweight (overweight+obese) and to analyse the structure of the social network of friendship established in adolescents doing group sports, using different parameters indicative of centrality. (bmj.com)
  • Participants 235 adolescents were included in the study (49.4% female), who were classified as normal weight or overweight. (bmj.com)
  • Results 30.2% of the participants in our study were overweight. (bmj.com)
  • Overweight and obesity are strongly correlated with primary hypertension in children. (aafp.org)
  • All children with confirmed hypertension and overweight children with prehypertension should be evaluated for additional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including screening for diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia. (aafp.org)
  • All children with prehypertension or hypertension should make therapeutic lifestyle changes to lower blood pressure, including losing weight if overweight, consuming a healthy diet low in sodium, getting regular physical activity, and avoiding tobacco and alcohol use. (aafp.org)
  • Identification of critical periods for the development of childhood and adolescent obesity could be very useful for targeting prevention measures. (nature.com)
  • 180 online comments (see Appendix 1), the Commission has developed a set of recommendations to successfully tackle childhood and adolescent obesity in different contexts around the world. (who.int)
  • it's serendipitous that it has lasted this long," says psychiatrist Robert Waldinger , director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, comprising the Grant Study and the inner city group, the Glueck Study. (protomag.com)
  • One of the four nationally representative surveys was part of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, or Add Health, the largest, most comprehensive data researchers use to study how social relationships, behavior, environment and biology interact to shape health in adolescence and influence well-being throughout adulthood. (newswise.com)
  • First, prenatal and early life perspectives on nutrition and obesity from gestation to experiences influence the trajectory of weight into adult- adolescence. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a cross-sectional analysis conducted with 14,014 participants of first follow-up data collection of Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Compared with their nonveteran peers, young adult veterans may be more affected by stress, depression, substance and alcohol abuse, and sleep loss, all of which have been linked to weight-related behaviors and obesity (14). (cdc.gov)
  • Early adult risk factor levels and subsequent coronary artery calcification: the CARDIA Study. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Usefulness of childhood non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels versus other lipoprotein measures in predicting adult subclinical atherosclerosis: the Bogalusa Heart Study. (jamanetwork.com)
  • 2 High blood pressure in childhood commonly leads to hypertension in adulthood, 3 and adult hypertension is the leading cause of premature death around the world. (aafp.org)
  • The overarching goals of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity are to provide policy recommendations to governments to prevent infants, children and adolescents from developing obesity, and to identify and treat pre-existing obesity in children and adolescents. (who.int)
  • Poor CRF, obesity and fatness appear as serious risk factors for various cardiovascular diseases, early stages of atherosclerosis and obesity in children and adolescents [ 10 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This program will build a diverse group of one million U.S. research participants for the study of precision medicine, an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account the differences in genetics, environment, and lifestyle of individual patients when choosing treatments or developing interventions. (nih.gov)
  • Reach is a national initiative that establishes community-based programs and culturally-tailored interventions to eliminate health disparities among African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian Americans, Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders. (nih.gov)
  • and randomized studies indicate that gratitude interventions can improve psychological well-being and sleep. (researchgate.net)
  • However, few studies have examined the health behaviors of young veterans, and, perhaps as a result, few programs, interventions, and policies are designed to promote healthful behaviors for recently returned veterans. (cdc.gov)
  • is a multicomponent school-based program developed on the basis of effective strategies for health interventions and behavioral change. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Considering the access to a large adolescent population, interventions based in the school setting are supposed to be the method of choice for increasing physical activity in youth [ 15 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In Canada, program managers in public health departments typically make recommendations to senior management on the specific interventions and strategies that could be provided to address particular population issues ( e.g ., healthy weights) [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We explored whether research evidence influenced these decisions made by program managers concerning whether and which interventions they recommended their health department make available in order to promote healthy body weight in children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This is a particular problem for early interventions aimed at pregnant women or young children where we might expect some major impacts on children's health and welfare to only become evident some years after an intervention. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, in spite of notable improvements gained as a result of the treatment and technological advancement, there continues to be an alarming disproportionate burden of illness among minority and other health disparity populations. (nih.gov)
  • As one of 27 Institutes and Centers at NIH, NIMHD supports research partnerships across NIH and externally with a goal to create synergistic research approaches to improve public health for health disparity populations, including racial and ethnic minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged and geographically underserved populations. (nih.gov)
  • Such studies require reasonable asthma definitions, stable primary care populations observed for prolonged periods, and-given the frequency of undiagnosed asthma-a population perspective. (annfammed.org)
  • The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • Public Health Service (CAPTAIN), having served as the Team Lead for the Minority Health and Health Equity Research Team in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (sexscience.org)
  • Adolescent cigarette smoking: health-related behavior or normative transgression? (colorado.edu)
  • In this CPR, we discuss the management of obesity and metabolic syndrome (O&MS) in children and adolescents with CKD stages 2-5 and on dialysis, as well as after kidney transplantation, focusing on non-pharmacological treatment (diet, physical activity and behavior modification). (springer.com)
  • The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study will enroll 10,000+ healthy children and follow them from ages 9 to 10 into early adulthood to understand how children's experiences affect brain development. (nih.gov)
  • The study won't die when the last of the men do," says Waldinger, who intends to explore what may be learned from the children and grandchildren of the original participants-will patterns of health and happiness be repeated over the generations? (protomag.com)
  • School health programs can help children and adolescents attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the skills, social support, and environmental reinforcement they need to adopt long-term, healthy eating behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • Because diet influences the potential for learning as well as health, an objective of the first national education goal is that children 'receive the nutrition and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies' (3). (cdc.gov)
  • Increased WIC benefits for fruits and vegetables increases food security and satisfaction among California households with young children. (ucanr.edu)
  • Young children Those less than 5 years of age. (who.int)
  • This was the first study to suggest that smoking tension and vascular defects (8,9), altered fetal pancreatic during pregnancy is linked to adverse changes in the lipo- development and structure (10), altered glucose tolerance protein levels of children (19). (cdc.gov)
  • There are few established adverse consequences of high intakes of digestible carbohydrate for young children. (nature.com)
  • In infant formula and toddlers milk, maltodextrins are also commonly used and may be an important dietary component for infants and young children. (nature.com)
  • To improve our knowledge of the natural history of asthma, we observed a primary care cohort of children and adolescents that had been screened 10 years earlier for respiratory tract signs and symptoms by Kolnaar et al. (annfammed.org)
  • Digital media use appears to be a risk factor for the development of MetS in children and adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognized the adverse role of prolonged exposure to digital media (DM) in childhood obesity and recommends that children and adolescents should limit recreational screen-time [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Remarkably, current evidence suggests that average screen-time (excluding school-related work) stands at 5 h/day in children and 8 h/day in adolescents [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Obesity is the most prevalent nutritional disorder among children and adolescents in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • The body mass index (BMI) has not been consistently used or validated in children younger than 2 years. (medscape.com)
  • Global recommendations on physical activity suggest that children and adolescents should take part in physical activity of moderate to vigorous intensity for at least 60 minutes per day to maintain health [ 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the impact of three knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) strategies in promoting the incorporation of research evidence by public health decision makers into public health policies and programs related to healthy body weight promotion in children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this study, we were interested in exploring the use of research evidence in decisions concerning the provision of public health services for promoting health body weight in children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The purpose of the study was to investigate associations between fatness, hemodynamic characteristics and secondary time with CRF in primary school-aged children. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There were 141 children in total in the academy, so the algorithm estimated that 103 children were needed for the sample of the present study. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents: summary report. (jamanetwork.com)
  • A more recent article on high blood pressure in children and adolescents is available. (aafp.org)
  • High blood pressure in children and adolescents is a growing health problem that is often overlooked by physicians. (aafp.org)
  • Normal blood pressure values for children and adolescents are based on age, sex, and height, and are available in standardized tables. (aafp.org)
  • A history and physical examination are needed for all children with newly diagnosed hypertension to help rule out underlying medical disorders. (aafp.org)
  • Children with hypertension should also be screened for other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia, and should be evaluated for target organ damage with a retinal examination and echocardiography. (aafp.org)
  • Children with symptomatic hypertension, secondary hypertension, target organ damage, diabetes, or persistent hypertension despite nonpharmacologic measures should be treated with antihypertensive medications. (aafp.org)
  • Hypertension in children and adolescents is a growing health problem. (aafp.org)
  • 4 Children with hypertension may have evidence of target organ damage, including left ventricular hypertrophy and pathologic vascular changes. (aafp.org)
  • 5 , 6 Primary hypertension in children is also commonly associated with other risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as hyperlipidemia and diabetes mellitus. (aafp.org)
  • In one study, hypertension was diagnosed in only 26 percent of children with documented high blood pressure in an electronic medical record. (aafp.org)
  • therefore, increased awareness about how to diagnose and treat hypertension in children is needed to combat this increasingly common condition. (aafp.org)
  • After prehypertension or hypertension is diagnosed in children, a thorough history and physical examination should be performed to look for underlying causes of secondary hypertension. (aafp.org)
  • All children with confirmed hypertension should be screened for underlying renal disease via blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels, complete blood count, electrolyte levels, urinalysis, urine culture, and renal ultrasonography. (aafp.org)
  • All children with diabetes or renal disease, prehypertension, or confirmed hypertension should be screened for target organ damage via echocardiography and retinal examination. (aafp.org)
  • The life-course approach to health later effects (Lynch and Smith, 2005) children having a higher body mass is a conceptual framework that merg- and especially pertinent to the study index (BMI) from the age of about es social science and epidemiological of chronic diseases such as cancers 3 years. (who.int)
  • Low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness have also been associated with elevated depressive symptoms in obese adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • REACH partners use community-based, participatory approaches to identify, develop, and disseminate effective strategies for addressing health disparities across a wide range of health priority areas such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer, infant mortality, asthma, immunization, and obesity. (nih.gov)
  • Cardiovascular health promotion in childhood: the si! (revespcardiol.org)
  • Given the enormous extent of the problem and the complexity of its causes, which include cultural, social, political, and health care factors, an equally sophisticated and comprehensive strategy is required to combat cardiovascular disease on a global scale. (revespcardiol.org)
  • Thus, our efforts should be concentrated not only on cardiovascular disease treatment and prevention, but also on health promotion and primordial prevention. (revespcardiol.org)
  • La enfermedad cardiovascular es la primera causa de muerte en el mundo, y su impacto está siendo especialmente devastador en países de rentas medias-bajas. (revespcardiol.org)
  • La combinación de factores como la urbanización y sus efectos derivados, como la obesidad, el sedentarismo, los cambios en hábitos dietéticos y el tabaquismo, se han combinado para situar la enfermedad cardiovascular en esa posición. (revespcardiol.org)
  • 1 While this may have positive implications for survival in the short term, given that salt retention gives rise to elevated blood pressure, 2 this would be disadvantageous in the longer term owing to an increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, most obviously in low- and middle-income countries where diarrhoea is prevalent. (bmj.com)
  • Optimizing cardiovascular (CV) health is one of the major treatment goals in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) since CV disease contributes to significant morbidity and mortality [ 1 ]. (springer.com)
  • Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with the development of cardiovascular diseases during childhood, adolescence and older ages. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Given that the results of the measurements indicate clear evidence that reduced CRF tends to be associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, the aims of this study were fourfold. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Cardiovascular risk factors in childhood and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The core participants - those in the Grant Study - were recruited when they were sophomores at Harvard College, and they were predominantly white, well-off and destined to succeed. (protomag.com)
  • Most longitudinal studies [which seek to follow study subjects over extended periods] end before 10 years because too many participants drop out or funding gets cut," says Waldinger. (protomag.com)
  • More than 70% of the participants stated that physical activity promotes and maintains health. (who.int)
  • Evidence is also presented on the linkages between health trajectories during adolescence and the transition to adulthood and social stratification in adulthood. (dukeupress.edu)
  • We found no evidence of an association between diarrhoea in the first 12 months of life and blood pressure measured at any point in adolescence or early adulthood. (bmj.com)
  • Bridge Employment and Longevity: Evidence From a 10-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study in 0.16 Million Chinese. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • Although the evidence for a relationship between distance/timed runs and health is insufficient at this time, this type of test is valid and reliable and could be an alternative in schools and other educational settings. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In making its recommendations, the committee considered not only the evidence for a relationship to health, but also the scientific integrity (reliability and validity) of putative health-related tests, as well as the administrative feasibility of implementing these tests. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The primary objective of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of three knowledge translation and exchange strategies in the incorporation of research evidence into public health policies and programs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The primary outcome assessed the extent to which research evidence was used in a recent program decision, and the secondary outcome measured the change in the sum of evidence-informed healthy body weight promotion policies or programs being delivered at health departments. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The results of this study suggest that under certain conditions tailored, targeted messages are more effective than knowledge brokering and access to an online registry of research evidence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The integration of research evidence into public health policy and program decision making is commonly referred to as evidence-informed decision making [ 2 ], and strategies to promote it as KTE. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There is some evidence for impaired growth and psychomotor neurodevelopment in infancy (birth to 2 years) after preeclampsia exposure [ 23 , 24 ], but much of the existing data are limited by their minimal adjustment for perinatal confounders, the variable use of assessment tools for growth and development, and their specific study cohorts of preterm or very low birthweight (VLBW) infants (Table 1 and 2 ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • This type of evidence synthesis and decision modelling are a central process of Health Technology Assessment (HTA), and represent a crucial role in the NICE appraisal process [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There is increasing evidence life expectancy and health, occurring an embodiment dynamic occurs dif- that chronic psychosocial stress may upstream of typically identified risk ferentially across the strata of SEP. (who.int)
  • In the following discussions, inferences regarding causality were made using the best data available in consideration of plausible biologic mechanisms, susceptibility to confounding and other aspects of the study methodology, and patterns of results. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The researchers concluded that eating family meals during adolescence may have a lasting positive influence on healthy diets and meal patterns. (gardencuizine.com)
  • 3 However, three similarly designed UK birth cohort studies 4 - 6 revealed concordant findings: the blood pressure and/or coronary heart disease risk of middle- to older-aged people did not differ between those with and those without a nurse-recorded early life episode of diarrhoea. (bmj.com)
  • Our results suggest that body shape trajectories are a good indicator of body weight trajectories and may be used when cohort studies are not possible. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The only information about the natural history of asthma is based on relatively few cohort studies. (annfammed.org)
  • In consideration of epidemiological data, only 17.3% of female and 28.2% of male adolescents in Germany aged 11 to 17 years meet these recommendations [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Behrendt S, Wittchen HU, Höfler M, Lieb R, Beesdo K. Transitions from first substance use to substance use disorders in adolescence: is early onset associated with a rapid escalation? (jamanetwork.com)
  • These results are of utmost importance for pediatricians and the development of health policies to prevent cardio-metabolic disorders later in life. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Laboratory and imaging studies are unnecessary for the diagnosis of migraine but may be indicated for the exclusion of other disorders. (medscape.com)
  • Among the noncommunicable disease risk factors, obesity is particularly concerning and has the potential to negate many of the health benefits that have contributed to increased life expectancy. (who.int)
  • Attributing hypertensive life expectancy loss to ambient heat exposure: A multicenter study in eastern China. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • Air pollution, residential greenness, and metabolic dysfunction biomarkers: analyses in the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • She told how the Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Program at Texas Children's now "is saving the lives of teens battling obesity. (blogspot.com)
  • The Oprah show provided only two resources for more information: the Texas Children's adolescent bariatric surgery program, and UCSF Children's Hospital, which has begun to evaluate bariatric surgeries for teens. (blogspot.com)
  • Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's adolescent bariatric surgery program urged people to visit Oprah's website to see photos and learn of their patient's journey. (blogspot.com)
  • Consistent associations were found between maternal smoking during pregnancy and the effects this has on children's health, educational attainment and likelihood of engaging in problem behaviour and criminal activity in later life. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Low birth weight was also found to impact on children's long-term health and cognitive development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We studied the interplay between social relationships, behavioral factors and physiological dysregulation that, over time, lead to chronic diseases of aging - cancer being a prominent example," Yang Claire Yang, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, CPC fellow and a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. (newswise.com)
  • The aims are to reduce the risk of morbidity and mortality due to noncommunicable diseases, lessen the negative psychosocial effects of obesity both in childhood and adulthood and reduce the risk of the next generation developing obesity. (who.int)
  • Depending on body shape trajectories, individuals may be more prone to develop diseases in adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Asthma is, in essence, still quite different from other chronic diseases, such as hypertension or hyperlipidemia, the natural histories of which we now know quite well. (annfammed.org)
  • Dietary Guidelines 2020 provides authoritative advice for people (age 2 and older) about how good dietary habits promote health and reduce the risk for major chronic diseases. (gardencuizine.com)
  • Childhood obesity is reported to be associated with the risk of many diseases in adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Multivariable MR analysis suggested that the associations between childhood BMI and increased risks of diseases in adulthood are likely attributed to individuals remaining obese in later life. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Longitudinal outcome studies of primary care patients with asthma should help us create this linkage and understand the developmental epidemiology of asthma. (annfammed.org)
  • 2Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon (Correspondence to: Lilian Ghandour: [email protected]. (who.int)
  • It not only provides new insights into the biological mechanisms that prolong life but also shows how social relationships reduce health risk in each stage of life. (newswise.com)
  • In adolescence, that is, social isolation increased risk of inflammation by the same amount as physical inactivity while social integration protected against abdominal obesity. (newswise.com)
  • They then studied how individual's social relationships were associated with four markers shown to be key markers for mortality risk: blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index and circulating levels of C-reactive protein, which is a measure of systemic inflammation. (newswise.com)
  • In the general population, the transition from adolescence to young adulthood is a time of increased risk for behavioral chronic disease risk factors such as excess weight gain and tobacco use escalation. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions and Relevance: In this cohort study, women had higher age- and stage-specific lung ADC incidence rates than men in Taiwan for both never and ever smokers, suggesting the possibility of differential exposures between sexes to risk factors other than smoking and the potential modification of ADC risk factors by sex. (bvsalud.org)
  • Effects of extreme temperature on the risk of preterm birth in China: A population-based multi-center cohort study. (tsinghua.edu.cn)
  • The presence of asthma symptoms correlated with an increased risk of an asthma diagnosis or allergic rhinitis in the group of patients who did not have asthma diagnosed at start of the study. (annfammed.org)
  • BACKGROUND: This pilot project implemented admission screening for Candida auris (C. auris) using real-time polymerase chain reaction (rt-PCR) in select high-risk units within health care facilities in New York City. (cdc.gov)
  • The committee's review revealed clear relationships between cardiorespiratory endurance and several health risk factors, including adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Other studies point to a potential relationship between cardiorespiratory endurance and other, less studied risk factors, such as those related to pulmonary function, depression and positive self-concept, and bone health. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Statin Use and Skin Cancer Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study. (who.int)
  • Risk Stratification for Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Using a Combination of Genetic and Environmental Risk Scores: An International Multi-Center Study. (who.int)
  • Studies linking awareness of risk with and alcohol dependence ( 2 ) - are likely to be maintained corresponding alcohol consumption have been limited, in adulthood ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • The current study addresses this gap in the literature by making use of a monozygotic twin difference scores approach to explore the association between IQ and a variety of outcome measures, including general health, substance use, relationships, sexual behaviors, educational attainment, economic well-being, and criminal justice contacts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cross-sectional studies have found that gratitude is positively associated with self-reported physical health (26) , psychological health (26)(27)(28), hope (29,30), sleep quality and quantity (31,32), and engagement in health behaviors (26). (researchgate.net)
  • In old age, social isolation was actually more harmful to health than diabetes on developing and controlling hypertension. (newswise.com)
  • Medicare Expansion of the National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Intervention. (cdc.gov)
  • National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • and may prevent long-term health problems, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and stroke. (cdc.gov)
  • I use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health, as an example of an integrative approach to health and of the importance of adolescence and the transition to adulthood years for setting health trajectories into adulthood. (dukeupress.edu)
  • All of them were part of a study intended to last perhaps 15 or 20 years. (protomag.com)
  • And a recent grant expected to total $4 million over five years from the National Institute on Aging is enabling researchers to study more than two thousand male and female offspring of the Harvard Study men. (protomag.com)
  • data for 1966-70 are for adolescents 12-17 years of age, not 12-19 years. (hhs.gov)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescents as those between 10 and 19 years of age. (who.int)
  • The majority of adolescents are, therefore, included in the age-based definition of "child", adopted by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a person under the age of 18 years. (who.int)
  • Blood pressure was subsequently measured directly in adolescence (aged 15, 18, 19 years) and early adulthood (aged 23 years). (bmj.com)
  • We applied a clustering method to longitudinal data to identify body shape trajectories from 5 to 40 years of age and assessed the associations between these trajectories and birth weight, body mass index and sociodemographic conditions (race, education, maternal education and monthly per capita family income) using multiple correspondence analysis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • STUDY OBJECTIVES: This study employed longitudinal data collected repeatedly from individuals over the course of several years to examine the trajectories of social jetlag from ages 11 to 22 years and their associations with subsequent BMI. (bvsalud.org)
  • RESULTS: Four distinct trajectories of social jetlag throughout the adolescent years were identified, with corresponding proportions as follows: low-stable (42%), moderate-decreasing (19%), low-increasing (22%), and chronic (17%) trajectories. (bvsalud.org)
  • RESULTS BHR or the presence of asthma symptoms at screening did not result in a significantly disproportionate number of physician visits during the next 10 years for 4 or more upper or lower respiratory tract infections when compared with patients who did not have these findings at the beginning of the study. (annfammed.org)
  • One half of the known asthmatic patients at the onset of the study (21 of 44) had no further visits to their physicians for treatment of asthma during the next 10 years. (annfammed.org)
  • Smoking, Alcohol Use, and Illicit Drug Use Reported by Adolescents Aged 12-17 Years: United States, 1999-2004. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (click image) is published every 5 years since 1980 by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (gardencuizine.com)
  • Longitudinal associations of plasma metabolites with persistent fatigue among colorectal cancer survivors up to 2 years after treatment. (who.int)
  • and mid-adulthood, age 33 to 45 years. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Studies assessing infant growth report that preeclampsia-exposed infants have lower weight, length and BMI at 2 years than their normotensive controls, or that they instead experience accelerated weight gain to catch up in growth by 2 years, which may have long-term implications for their cardiometabolic health. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This was a cross-sectional, monocentric and descriptive study, lasting 12 months, including patients aged at least 18 years admitted to ICU for sepsis or septic shock. (bvsalud.org)
  • An integrative approach bridges biomedical sciences with social and behavioral sciences by understanding the linkages between social, behavioral, psychological, and biological factors in health. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Evaluating lifelong weight trajectories is challenging due to the high costs of studies that follow individuals from childhood to adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study aimed to evaluate body shape trajectories across the lifespan and to verify associations between them, birth weight, body mass index, and sociodemographic conditions in a Brazilian cohort. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The study shows that variables related to worse lifetime weight status (evaluated by anthropometry), such as presence of obesity, are also associated with worse body shape trajectories, as assessed with silhouette scales. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study aims to evaluate the longitudinal association of childhood digital media (DM) use trajectories with MetS and its components. (biomedcentral.com)
  • METHODS: Data were obtained from 2 longitudinal studies conducted in Taiwan (N = 4287). (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS: Data of AYA was extracted from a cross-sectional study conducted in 36 selected facilities using a two-stage cluster sampling design. (cdc.gov)
  • and for understanding health disparities among the young as both causes and consequences of social stratification. (dukeupress.edu)
  • SAD may cause significant negative effects within areas of social and emotional functioning, family life, and physical health of the disordered individual. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among the lofty goals of researchers have been to determine what constitutes optimal physical and mental aging, what kinds of men have the best marriages and what personality traits suggest that someone's health might fail at age 55 or could help him survive to 90 or beyond. (protomag.com)
  • These recommendations complement CDC guidelines for school health programs to prevent the spread of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (4), to prevent tobacco use and addiction (5), and to promote physical activity (6). (cdc.gov)
  • The study is the first to definitively link social relationships with concrete measures of physical wellbeing such as abdominal obesity, inflammation, and high blood pressure, all of which can lead to long-term health problems, including heart disease, stroke and cancer. (newswise.com)
  • Dispositional gratitude correlated positively with self-reported physical health, and this link was mediated by psychological health, healthy activities, and willingness to seek help for health concerns. (researchgate.net)
  • Everyone involved in the Olympic Movement must become more aware of the fundamental importance of Physical Activity and sport for a healthy lifestyle, not least in the growing battle against obesity, and must reach out to parents and schools as part of a strategy to counter the rising inactivity of young people. (bmj.com)
  • Physical activity during childhood and adolescence is associated with substantial health benefits and tracks into adulthood. (biomedcentral.com)
  • program to enhance physical activity in adolescence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • aims at fostering a physically active lifestyle in adolescence while a considerable decline of physical activity is present. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Furthermore, the use of pedometers is promising to enhance physical activity during the entire day and targets a wide range of adolescents regarding fitness and weight. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Hence, the promotion of an active lifestyle and physical fitness in early adolescence is an issue worthy of intervention development. (biomedcentral.com)
  • ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study was carried out on 1708 students from Mansoura University, Egypt, to describe the pattern of physical activity, predictors of physical inactivity and perceived barriers to and benefits of physical activity. (who.int)
  • Are Physical Activity and Sedentary Screen Time Levels Associated With Food Consumption in European Adolescents? (who.int)
  • Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women With Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. (who.int)
  • Primary and secondary outcome measures Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (PAQ-A) was used to study the level of physical activity. (bmj.com)
  • access to health-care services, and pact of SEP on many pathological The pervasive nature of the social chemical and physical exposures processes means that it is consid- structures that make up the outer (e.g. occupational exposures, pollu- ered one of the main determinants of layer of our environments means that tion). (who.int)
  • Harris and her team drew on data from four nationally representative surveys of the U.S. population that, together, covered the lifespan from adolescence to old age. (newswise.com)
  • Adolescent characteristics of youth soccer players: do they vary with playing status in young adulthood? (academictree.org)
  • Several press releases went out promoting this Oprah show - all from the centers doing bariatric surgeries on teens and part of the Teen-LABS (Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery) consortium. (blogspot.com)
  • Newswise - (Chapel Hill, N.C. - Jan. 4, 2016) - The more social ties people have at an early age, the better their health is at the beginnings and ends of their lives, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (newswise.com)
  • Specifically, the team found that the sheer size of a person's social network was important for health in early and late adulthood. (newswise.com)
  • In middle adulthood, it wasn't the number of social connections that mattered, but what those connections provided in terms of social support or strain. (newswise.com)
  • The relationship between health and the degree to which people are integrated in large social networks is strongest at the beginning and at the end of life, and not so important in middle adulthood, when the quality, not the quantity, of social relationships matters," Harris said. (newswise.com)
  • Our analysis makes it clear that doctors, clinicians, and other health workers should redouble their efforts to help the public understand how important strong social bonds are throughout the course of all of our lives. (newswise.com)
  • Social phobia, also called social anxiety disorder, is the third most common mental health disorder after depression and substance abuse, affecting as many as 10 million Americans. (medscape.com)
  • A functional connectivity study of 174 subjects, 78 of whom had social anxiety disorder, examined whether emotion regulation can be a transdiagnostic measure. (medscape.com)
  • however, even though adolescents with clinical social phobia may report frequent negative self-focused thoughts, this may not be a clear associated symptom. (medscape.com)
  • Neurocircuitry involving the amygdala, a structure involved in fear, may be involved, as studies have found an exaggerated reactivity of the amygdala to aversive social stimuli in social anxiety. (medscape.com)
  • Nos interesa especialmente la conversación cruzada entre programaciones biológicas y el entorno social para descubrir cómo esas interacciones tienen un efecto a corto, medio y largo plazo en la salud de la población. (uchile.cl)
  • Social network analysis is a tool that can help us understand the relational structure of the adolescent. (bmj.com)
  • Understanding the implications of the study of centrality within the social network of adolescents who engage in group sport is fundamental to the design of quality intervention strategies. (bmj.com)
  • It originated in the social sciences, Poor socioeconomic circumstances vary after adipose rebound and into where there was a primary interest in during childhood are particularly im- adolescence, and whether these tra- assessing the "social organisation of portant in determining, for example, a jectories differ by national context. (who.int)
  • 1 Further, in a study that utilised climate data as an instrumental variable for infant dehydration, infants who were exposed to conditions that were more likely to precipitate episodes of diarrhoea (summers with higher temperature and lower rainfall) had increased levels of systolic blood pressure in older age. (bmj.com)
  • And while there are questions about what a study of educated white men born long ago can have to say about health and happiness today, the study's wealth of data continues to be mined. (protomag.com)
  • Several of these studies are characterised by a low number of cases of dehydration or diarrhoea, which hampers data interpretation. (bmj.com)
  • Linked data from the TCR, TCOD, NHIRD, Taiwan National Health Interview Survey, and MBIS were used to estimate the age- and sex-specific numbers of cancer-free individuals at midyears from 2011 to 2019 by smoking status. (bvsalud.org)
  • Normal values for BMI vary with age, sex, and pubertal status, and standard curves representing the 5th through the 95th percentiles for BMI in childhood and adolescence were generated using data from the 1988-1994 NHANES. (medscape.com)
  • The primary aim of this study was to assess the impact of practicing Tiny Habits® on self-reported gratitude, as measured by the 6-Item Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6). (researchgate.net)
  • 9, 10 The objective of the current study was to clarify the natural history of respiratory tract complaints and asthma in primary care. (annfammed.org)
  • Most clinical studies of asthma have used a combination of bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) testing and responses to respiratory questionnaires to assist with an asthma diagnosis. (annfammed.org)
  • Observational studies are often susceptible to mixing effects of confounding factors with the predictor of real interest, in this case GWG. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Studies have also examined the factors that explain variation in IQ measures in general. (bvsalud.org)
  • Because dietary factors 'contribute substantially to the burden of preventable illness and premature death in the United States,' the national health promotion and disease prevention objectives encourage schools to provide nutrition education from preschool through 12th grade (1). (cdc.gov)
  • This study examined changes in body weight and fat in 36 college students during their freshmen year and factors associated with weight change. (studyres.com)
  • However, observational studies cannot fully account for confounding factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, results from observational studies are unable to fully account for confounding factors (e.g., socioeconomic status). (biomedcentral.com)
  • These factors were guided by the funders, the Department of Health, as being of particular interest in the UK context. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Some newer initiatives support research on precision medicine, child health studies examining environmental influences and cognitive brain development, and scientific workforce diversity. (nih.gov)
  • However, most studies examining these associations have employed correlational statistical techniques which tend to confound environmental and genetic influences. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is not as direct a measure as BMI at any age, but because it involves the examination of several points during growth, and because it is identified at a time when adiposity level clearly change directions, this method provides information that can help us understand individual changes and the development of health risks. (nature.com)
  • Adversity in early childhood too often equals poor health later. (protomag.com)
  • In early childhood, feed- mental susceptibilities for obesity from gestation through ing practices, taste acquisition, and eating in the absence adolescence (Table). (cdc.gov)
  • Association Between Stimulant Treatment and Substance Use Through Adolescence Into Early Adulthood. (ucsf.edu)
  • The study aimed to examine the differences in adiposity levels and fat distribution between early, average, and late maturing girls from Kolkata, India. (human-biology-and-public-health.org)
  • 936 Bengali girls included in a cross-sectional study were categorized as early, average or late maturing. (human-biology-and-public-health.org)
  • Dr. Aaron Devor , PhD, FSSSS, FSTLHE, is an internationally recognized leader in Transgender Studies who has been studying and teaching about transgender topics since the early 1980s. (sexscience.org)
  • Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. (nationalacademies.org)
  • New research suggests that having a positive outlook may improve health and longevity. (protomag.com)
  • New research looks into young people's anxiety around environmental collapse. (protomag.com)
  • These guidelines are based on a review of research, theory, and current practice, and they were developed by CDC in collaboration with experts from universities and from national, federal, and voluntary agencies. (cdc.gov)
  • These guidelines are based on a synthesis of research, theory, and current practice and are consistent with the principles of the national health education standards (29), the opportunity-to-learn standards for health education (29), the position papers of leading voluntary organizations involved in child nutrition (30), and the national action plan to improve the American diet (31). (cdc.gov)
  • The National Institutes of Health and the University Cancer Research Fund at UNC Lineberger funded the study. (newswise.com)
  • Current research interests include evaluation of the relationship of school-level programs and policies on student dietary intakes, the impact of policy on nutrition practices in child care settings, and the relationship of federal, state and community-level programs and policies with child nutrition, weight status and health. (ucanr.edu)
  • He is a 3M national-award-winning teacher, a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and a member of the International Academy of Sex Research. (sexscience.org)
  • The research study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Thessaly (308ΣΕ2/27-01-2020) stating that the research proposal is in accordance to the international principles of ethical practice and ethics which are in line with the value of respect for the volunteers who will participate. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Research linking awareness of health effects of alcohol and harmful alcohol drinking status is limited. (who.int)
  • Providing estimates of the economic burden of health disparities could help inform national and state policymakers of where policies and programs are most needed to address and reduce health disparities. (nih.gov)