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.
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Preventive medicine · Feb 2012
Incident obesity and cardiovascular risk factors between young adulthood and middle age by religious involvement: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.
Religious involvement has been associated with improved health outcomes but greater obesity in older adults. No longitudinal study of young adults has examined the prospective association of religious involvement with incident cardiovascular risk factors (RFs) and subclinical disease (subCVD). ⋯ Frequent religious participants are more likely to become obese between young adulthood and middle age; this association is confounded by demographic and other factors. Nonetheless, young adults with frequent participation may represent an opportunity for obesity prevention.
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Preventive medicine · Feb 2012
Association between childhood and adolescent television viewing and unemployment in adulthood.
To assess the long-term association between childhood television viewing and adult unemployment, and if this association is mediated by educational achievement. ⋯ Childhood and adolescent television viewing may have long-lasting consequences for adult unemployment for boys. This association is only partially explained by the association between television viewing and educational achievement.