Dental practitioners can be instrumental in preventing their patients' eating disorders
...creased chances for secondary prevention behaviors among dental hygienists were associated with greater self-efficacy, knowledge of oral cues, and perceived severity of eating disorders. Among dentists, greater perceived benefits of secondary prevention behaviors were found to increase the likelihood of pa...Teen athletes continue tobacco use, despite severe consequences
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...cts. Receding gums were were significantly greater among subjects with lip piercing (41.4%) than among controls (6.9%). The average recession depth was more than double in subjects with piercing compared...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
...ight as young adults. The results also showed that among the boys, elevated BMI in childhood predicted risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) in young adulthood. Compared with boys who had a childhood BMI below the 75th percentile, boys between the 75th and 85th percentile of BMI as children were four ...Steady rise in HIV among heterosexuals in the UK
...ontrary to popular belief, most of the increase is among people who are infected abroad, mainly in Africa. ...ion within the country will increase, particularly among ethnic minorities....Drug abuse treatment slashes HIV-related sex behaviors in urban meth addicts
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...03 'war on drugs' policy on self-reported drug use among injection drug users in Chiang Mai, Thailand" was written by Tassanai Vongchak, Surinda Kawichai, Susan Sherman, David D. Celentano, Thira Sirisanthana, Carl Latkin, Kanokporn Wiboonnatakul, Namtip Srirak, Jaroon Jittiwutikarn and Apinin Aramrattana....Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...isk of dying within a year of leaving the hospital among heart attack patients whose doctors and nurses fol...ents. This fits the known pattern of heart disease among women, who tend to develop the condition and its effects later in life. Cardiovascular disease is th...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...b stress levels can be a predictor of burnout rate among nurses. In a study observing 192 nurses, the resea...a-analysis of studies exploring hypertension rates among Caucasians and Chinese, Xiao-Fei Zhang of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in ...Allergen exposure in inner cities varies throughout the U.S.
...aches have the greatest effect on asthma morbidity among children living in inner-city environments....Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
... examined the timeliness of receipt of vaccination among a nationally representative sample of children in the United States for each recommended vaccine and for all vaccines combined. The study consisted of the 2003 National Immunization Survey, conducted by random-digit dialing of households and mailing......revented. Indeed, he and his colleagues suggest, among other things, that IT-assistance programs focus primarily on the organization of work in an institution, rather than on the technology itself. "Computers do some things brilliantly, and people do many things brilliantly but substitution of technol...Cockroach allergens have greatest impact on childhood asthma in many US cities
...vention program aimed at reducing asthma incidence among children living in low socioeconomic areas....Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
... Clinical Immunology , evaluates the relationships among allergen exposure, sensitivity and asthma morbidity in inner-city children. It is the first study to compare allergen levels and exposure on such a geographically large scale in an inner-city population. "It is known that cockroach allergens play a v...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
...s remembered, to explore the specific interactions among brain structures in processing emotional memories. They also plan to analyze activity of other regions -- such as those that process spatial, auditory, or visual information -- during emotional memory processing to understand their role. Such studies...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
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