In fact, when gender differences do emerge, it is boys, not girls, who tend to be lonelier. We examined two possible explanations for this paradox: (1) a gender-specific response bias, characterized by a denial of emotional distress for boys that differentially affects reports of depression ...
Consensual incest was defined as a sexual act with a consenting relative, with these offenders again divided according to age and sex of the relative. Subjects who rubbed themselves against someone, or who touched someone, usually in a crowd and fully clothed, were classified as frotteurs, and...
Lower panel shows the number of individuals who underwent 24-hour ABPM and MRI. FGR fetal growth restriction, AGA appropriate for gestational age, MRI magnetic resonance imaging, 24-hour ABPM 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements. Full size image All individuals from the original cohort ...
The cohort was categorized as adolescent-onset adult overweight (N = 110) or lean (N = 81) according to age-, race-, and sex-specific body mass index (BMI) greater than the 75th percentile or between the 25th and 50th percentiles on both surveys. The risk for overweight adolescents to ...
Although high Socio-demographic Index (SDI) countries had the highest age-standardised incidence rates, they also had the lowest age-standardised mortality rates when compared to non-high SDI (low, low-middle, middle, and high-middle SDI) countries. Implications of all the available evidence The...
Method Sixty-two initiating dieters were carefully matched with 62 never dieters, according to school, grade, age, language spoken at home, and country of birth. Both groups completed a battery of questionnaires that assessed their dieting status, perceived social influence to diet, conformity ...
25 For other funding categories, we allocated the funds for adolescent health according to the country-specific proportion of the population between 10 and 24 years of age in that year in the total population (eTable 4 in the Supplement). We translated all key words into 8 major languages: ...
We performed RNA-seq in 62 breast tissue samples from adolescent girls/young women (ADOL; mean age 17.8 years) who underwent reduction mammoplasty. Thirty-one subjects were non-overweight/obese (NOB; mean BMI 23.4 kg/m2) and 31 were overweight/obese (OB; BMI 32.1 kg/m2). We...
2 One-quarter of adolescents think social media has a mostly negative influence on people their age, pointing to reasons like rumor spreading, lack of in-person contact, unrealistic views of others’ lives, peer pressure, and mental health issues.1 An increasing body of literature suggests that...
If records were missing for key variables (eg, age or sex) or had more than 75% of question responses missing, the records were excluded according to HBSC protocol requirements (n = 835). The school-based sample design, using 1 class period for completion of the questionnaire, precluded ...