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See All >> Messages include industry-sponsored communications and special communications from MDLinx161 Adolescent Obesity, Change in Weight Status, and Hypertension Hypertension, January 18, 2013 Review Article
162 Resident Education in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology: From a Residency Program Director's Perspective The Journal of Reproductive Medicine, January 18, 2013 Clinical Article
163 Qualitative Iranian study of parents' roles in adolescent girls' physical activity habit development Nursing & Health Sciences, January 18, 2013 Clinical Article
164 Community embedded reproductive health interventions for adolescents in Latin America: development and evaluation of a complex multi-centre intervention Full Text BMC Public Health, January 18, 2013
165 Gamified physical activation of young men - a multidisciplinary population-based randomized controlled trial (mopo study) Full Text BMC Public Health, January 18, 2013 Clinical Article
166 Personal predictors of educational attainment after compulsory school: Influence of measures of vulnerability, health, and school performance Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, January 18, 2013 Clinical Article
167 Role of Fructose-Containing Sugars in the Epidemics of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Annual Review of Medicine, January 17, 2013 Review Article
168 Effects of Concussion on Attention and Executive Function in Adolescents Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, January 17, 2013 Review Article
169 Health-related quality of life, depression, and self-esteem in adolescents with leprosy-affected parents: results of a cross-sectional study in Nepal Full Text BMC Public Health, January 17, 2013 Clinical Article
170 Metabolic control of insulin detemir in basal-bolus therapy: treat-to-target study in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes Pediatric Diabetes, January 17, 2013 Clinical Article
171 Changes in adiposity indicators of Ho Chi Minh City adolescents in a 5-year prospective cohort study International Journal of Obesity, January 16, 2013 Clinical Article
172 Adiponectin multimers, body weight and markers of cardiovascular risk in adolescence: Northern Ireland Young Hearts Project International Journal of Obesity, January 16, 2013 Review Article
173 Right ventricular function impaired in children and adolescents with severe idiopathic scoliosis Scoliosis, January 16, 2013 Clinical Article
174 Randomized controlled trial to prevent postpartum depression in adolescent mothers American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, January 15, 2013 Clinical Article
175 Gastrocolic Fistula: A Cause of Short Stature and Delayed Puberty in an Adolescent with Chronic Diarrhea The Journal of Pediatrics, January 15, 2013
176 Massive splenic infarction in an adolescent with hemoglobin S-HPFH Pediatric Blood & Cancer, January 15, 2013 Review Article
177 Impact of divorce and loss of parental contact on health complaints among adolescents Journal of Public Health, January 15, 2013 Clinical Article
178 Transition of care for adolescent patients with chronic illness: education for nurses The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, January 15, 2013 Continuing Medical Education
179 Fruit and vegetable intake and bone mass in Chinese adolescents, young and postmenopausal women Public Health Nutrition, January 14, 2013 Clinical Article
180 Attitudes to food differ between adolescent dieters and non-dieters from Otago, New Zealand, but overall food intake does not Public Health Nutrition, January 14, 2013 Clinical Article
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health conducted a study involving 96,008 women in the Nurse’s Health Study II with 18 years of follow up, which demonstrated a strikingly strong association with non-fatal cardiovascular disease. There were 2463 participants with psoriasis and 1,709,069 person-years of follow up. There were 713 cases of non-fatal cardiovascular disease (HR=1.55). The HRs for myocardial infarction and stroke were 1.70 and 1.45, respectively. For women with psoriatic arthritis, the HR was 3.47. For women < 40 years of age and psoriasis > 9 years, the HRs were 3.26 and 3.09, respectively.
Read the article summaryAs reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, two cytokine genes (IL-2RA and TNF/LTA) which have been implicated in autoimmune diseases are associated with severe alopecia areata. The study involved 768 patients with alopecia areata and 658 controls, and 26 cytokine genes were genotyped.
Read the article summaryAs reported in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology and based on participants in the Nurses’ Health Study, Women’s Health Study, Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study, and Physicians’ Health Study II, total testosterone (RR = 0.62) and SHBG levels (RR = 0.65), and the estradiol:testosterone ratio (RR = 2.63) are associated with colorectal cancer risk in men. An inverse association exists between the estradiol:testosterone ratio (RR = 0.43) and colorectal cancer risk in women.
Read the article summary1 Adolescents' perceptions and experiences of family meals Journal of Child Health Care, March 22, 2013
2 Consumption of pornographic materials in early adolescents in Hong Kong Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology , April 9, 2013
3 Anxiety, cognitive and depressive assessment in adolescents with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a pilot study Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology , April 18, 2013
4 Internet addiction in Hong Kong adolescents: A three-year longitudinal study Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology , April 9, 2013
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