Higher educational attainment for parents was associated with an increased likelihood that adolescent girls would have a same-gender provider and a physician who was different from the one seen by their parents (Table 4). For boys, higher parental educational attainment and younger age were also ...
Panels A and B included different causes because some causes do not have mortality estimated in this age range. Other non-communicable diseases comprise congenital birth defects; urinary diseases and male infertility; gynaecological diseases; haemoglobinopathies and haemolytic anaemias; endocrine, ...
This depression/loneliness distinction for mildly depressed girls may be magnified by the large number of female depressives (65% in this sample) who fall into the mildly depressed range. Girls were also more likely than boys to report turning to their friends when feeling depressed, and results...
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...
(67.2% female; ages 42 ± 15) who had experienced major depression. Adult functional outcomes were marital status, divorce, number of children, years of education, employment status, household income, dependency on welfare, and obesity. Participants with depression during adolescence were less ...
A sample (N= 114) of adolescent female binge-purgers were among the respondents to a nationwide survey on body-image. Relative to female controls (N= 114) who were matched on age, height and weight, binge-purgers evaluated their physical appearance, fitness and health much less favourably....
of Youth and their children aged 14 or older indicates that, after accounting for a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic antecedents, children are significantly more likely to become sexually active before age 14 if their mother had sex at an early age and if she has worked extensively....
The abstinence-only intervention compared with the health-promotion control intervention reduced by about 33% the percentage of students who ever reported having sexual intercourse by the time of the 24-month follow-up, controlling for grade, age, and intervention-maintenance condition. Although other...
We use the Add Health data and initially focus on the effect of beauty on one particular risky behaviour, underage alcohol consumption. We demonstrate that more attractive adolescents are more likely to engage in underage drinking. We then contrast this to a range of other risky behaviours (...
For example, in 2020 the sample percentage female was 51 %, which falls within the range of 51%–53% from 2017 to 2019, and the percentage who ever used marijuana was 38 %, which falls within the range of 37%–38% from 2017 to 2019 (Miech et al., 2020a). To examine drug use ...