Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2009
Resilience and patterns of health risk behaviors in California adolescents.
Assess whether adolescent health risk behaviors cluster, and whether resiliency factors are associated with observed clusters. ⋯ Health promoting interventions should address multiple health risk behaviors in an integrated fashion. Gender-specific, ethnically-targeted, family-centered strategies that address parenting, particularly parental supervision would be useful. Addressing depressiveness may be especially important for female adolescents.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2009
Obesity related metabolic abnormalities: distribution and geographic differences among middle-aged and older Chinese populations.
To investigate geographic differences in obesity related metabolic abnormalities in middle-aged and older Chinese people with different levels of adiposity. ⋯ The prevalence of obesity and associated metabolic abnormalities varies substantially among Chinese people in different geographic region. Individuals who were overweight or obese living in rural areas in the north contribute importantly to the north-south differences in obesity-related metabolic abnormalities among Chinese populations.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2009
Built environment and changes in blood pressure in middle aged and older adults.
Few studies have examined interaction effects between person and environment, especially for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The purpose of this study was to examine built environment characteristics and resident health behaviors as they relate to change in blood pressure, an important component of CVD. ⋯ Neighborhoods with high walkability may ameliorate the risk of hypertension at the community level and promotion of neighborhood walkability could play a significant role in improving population health and reducing CVD risk.