Peer pressure matters in young adults smoking decisions
...ars, 12 percent of the males and 17 percent of the females said they had quit and hadn't smoked in a year. Is...ptation to smoke. The researchers also found that females were more likely to have quit if their parents had disapproved of their smoking during high school, ...Children's body mass index predicts overweight or obesity in adulthood
...d Prevention have been revised for young males and females aged 2-20 years, due to continued concern about the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among U.S. children. Previously a BMI of at least 26 for men and 28 for women was considered overweight, whereas now a BMI of ≥ 25 is considered ov......nts under one year of age. The number of males and females was roughly equal. More than one half of the specimens were from patients with deaths of unknown cause. The trend of samples from the first 1,000 screening specimens compared with the later specimens showed an increasing number of infants who died of...Birth weight and social class linked to educational achievement
...is week's BMJ. The study involved 10,845 males and females born during 3-9 March 1958 in England, Scotland, and Wales. The team investigated the combined effect of birth weight and socioeconomic environment on cognitive tests and educational achievements at 7, 11, 16, and 33 years. All cognitive tests and e...Common diabetes drug causes arteries to spasm, endangering heart
...0 weeks, 65 percent of male mice and 35 percent of females had died. The spasms were caused by the missing receptor, the same one that is targeted by the sulfonylureas. Sulfonylureas induce the pancreas to release insulin by blocking this receptor. Blocking the receptor inhibits a potassium channel on the ...Homeless sexual minorities at greater risk for physical and sexual violence, mental illness
... 71 of 84, identified themselves as bisexual. Four females and eight males identified themselves as lesbian or gay, respectively, and one youth identified as transgender. Nationally, the estimated number of homeless street youth ranges from 600,000 to 1.5 million. The number of sexual minorities among this...Directed antisense expression moderates feeding and weight gain
...mals are smaller than controls, even at birth, and females show blunted expression of GH. Surprisingly, although males are apparently normal for GH synthesis and show the normal daily fluctuations in GH release, animals of both sexes are significantly reduced in food intake and body adiposity. The same aut...Sepsis on the increase in U.S., according to Emory University and CDC study
...alization due to sepsis, although the incidence in females and Caucasians increased more rapidly. The study also indicated an increase in gram-positive infections, which by 1999 represented the majority of cases of sepsis (56%), while gram-negative infections, anaerobic, fungal and viral infections were les...Secondhand smoke impairs lung function in women
...oke did not affect the lung function of men. Among females with and without asthma, we found that the greater...ted to decreased lung function. But in non-smoking females with or without asthma, high levels of cotinine were associated with lower lung function. These fin...Impaired sodium excretion after stress contributes to hypertension in blacks
...archers said. One third of the 118 black males and females age 15 to 18 in the Medical College of Georgia study had an impaired ability to eliminate sodium in their urine hours after the stress subsided, according to the study presented May 16 at the 17th Annual Scientific Session of the American Society of ...Family history of hypertension is related to maladaptive behavioral responses
...tressful mental activities. Both the males and the females in the PH + group had higher resting heart rates than the females and males in the PH group. Furthermore, those in the PH + group had their systolic blood pressure g...Early intercourse and self-esteem linked in adolescent behavior
...that self-esteem differences among young males and females are associated with subsequent initiation of sexua...he level of self-esteem did not change in males or females following the loss of virginity. Researchers followed 188 adolescents from seventh to ninth grades a...Health benefits of leanness blown away by cigarette smoke
... 5 pounds heavier than the smokers, and nonsmoking females were about 7 pounds heavier than their cigarette-smoking peers. According to the American Heart Association, smoking increases the risk of heart attack. When it is combined with other risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol le...Children as young as 5 have gender bias when it comes to picking a musical instrument
...en saw males playing the masculine instruments and females playing the feminine ones. Children in a counter-...oup saw males playing the feminine instruments and females playing the masculine instruments. The third, or control, group viewed a video of the music but wit...Report shows decline in youth smoking, but work remains
...was little evidence of a decline in initiation for females under 16 years old, and initiation rates increased for females 16 years and older. The youth smoking rates overall remain relatively high. The latest figure...Sexual revolution and teenagers is explored in ASAs magazine, Contexts
... increased. Sexual activity of white and Hispanic females has remained generally stable while black females reduced their rates of sexual activity more sharply, moving toward levels comparable to that of whit...Estrogen's role in preventing female cardiac disease
...- indicating that estrogen production protects the females but not the males. Referring to recent evaluations...t and the same degree of abnormal calcium release, females were somehow protected from developing cardiac enlargement in response to the defect. "We wondered w...Parents can help black teen girls talk about condom use
The study also showed that teenage females who rarely talked with the partners about pregnanc...ion & Behavior. Of the 522 sexually active teenage females who participated in the study, those who rarely spoke with their parent or parents about sexual issu......ophies, said Garg, senior author of the study.Nine females participated in the 17-week study. Eight of the participants were diabetic and all nine participants had high triglycerides levels ranging from 445 to 9,560 milligrams per deciliter. Normal triglyceride levels are 150 mg/dL or below. The study partic...Energy balance, not exercise, key to athletic menstrual disturbance
...exercise or something about exercise is harmful to females was not definitively ruled out," says Williams. "That exercise itself is harmful would be a dangerous message to put out there. We needed to look at what it was about exercise that caused amenorrhea, what it was that suppresses ovulation. To do th...