Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2012
Multilevel predictors of smoking initiation among adolescents: findings from the Minnesota Adolescent Community Cohort (MACC) study.
To understand how factors at multiple levels of influence impact adolescent smoking initiation. ⋯ Factors at multiple levels of influence effect adolescent smoking initiation. Smoking by older age peers and lower SES predicts earlier smoking.
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Preventive medicine · Mar 2012
Cross-sectional associations between occupational and leisure-time sitting, physical activity and obesity in working adults.
To examine associations between occupational and leisure-time sitting, physical activity and obesity in working adults. ⋯ Sitting time and physical activity are independently associated with obesity. Leisure-time sitting may have a stronger association with obesity risk than occupational sitting.