To determine whether relatively low leptin levels predict changes in adiposity in prepubertal and pubertal obese children.In a biracial cohort of 68 obese children (33 male and 35 female; 46 Caucasians and 22 African-Americans, age range 7鈥 18 y), we measured at baseline fasting insulin and...
Cite this chapter Berenson, G.S., Voors, A.W., Webber, L.S. (1980). Importance of Blood Pressures in Children. In: Kesteloot, H., Joossens, J.V. (eds) Epidemiology of Arterial Blood Pressure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.10...
Identifying factors that influence teachers’ beliefs concerning the importance of various developmental outcomes is necessary since it is likely that, barring some constraints, teachers tend to emphasize as instructional goals those skills and abilities that they feel have value for the children they ser...
Manet would paint Laure twice more, in "Portrait of Laure" and in "Children in the Tuileries Gardens." The fourth Manet painting to feature a black female model was of the celebrated French poet Charles Baudelaire's mistress, Jeanne Duval, a biracial actress. "I think Manet's captured her...
One of theMANY problems with overvaluing the bloodlines and legacyin Star Wars fandom: I’m a biracial woman of color. Blood purity and legacy when centered on white people has always been about white supremacy. In worlds where that’s idealized people like me are exterminated. So having ...