Moreover, there is preliminary evidence regarding the impact of restrictions due to COVID-19 on the mental state of people who were suffering from mental health problems before the pandemic, who may be more at risk of increasing distress and worsening of their mental health status due to the ...
Childhood obesity is increasingly recognized as a major public health challenge worldwide, and excessive sedentary screen time is emerging as a key risk factor. This study aimed to assess the recreational screen sedentary time of Chinese primary school-aged children and investigate the relationship betw...
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in the world for newborn and child mortality rates and among the top 34 for burden of stunting. This study was conducted to model the impact of stunting on child mortality in the southwest region of Uganda where the prevalence of stunting and child mortality are of great public health ...
Fernandez C, Fraser GA, Freeman C, Grunfeld E, Gupta A, Mery LS, De Pauw S, Schacter B: Principles and recommendations for the provision of healthcare in Canada to adolescent and young adult-aged cancer patients and survivors. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2011, 1 (1): 53-59. 10.1089...
Maternal body mass index before pregnancy as a risk factor for ADHD and autism in children. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2018;27:139–48. PubMed Google Scholar Pugh SJ, Hutcheon JA, Richardson GA, Brooks MM, Himes KP, Day NL, et al. Gestational weight gain, prepregnancy body mass ...
However, we must also factor in source control. Experiments have shown face coverings, especially but not exclusively medical masks, to greatly reduce viral shedding and droplet dispersal8,9. Taking all of these into consideration, we modelled a mean of 45% with a range of 25–70% as a ...
Three studies (Seer and Ula, Int J Ment Health Addict: 1–14, 2020; Zhou et al., Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 29:749–58, 2020; Qu et al., Lancet: 1–17, 2020) showed that COVID-19 was a risk factor for mental health problems in adolescents while Oosterhoff et al. (J Adolesc ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting measures can be regarded as a global stressor. Cross-sectional studies showed rather negative impacts on people’s mental health, while longitudinal studies considering pre-lockdown data are still scarce. The present s
(1998). The pulsatile nature of circulating concentrations of estradiol and testosterone in prepubertal girls and boys is an important factor to take into consideration in the evaluation of these hormones, because the determination of testosterone and estradiol in single blood sample may not be ...