Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2023
The role of sleep duration in suicide risk among sexual and gender minority adolescents.
Short sleep duration is linked with suicide risk in adolescence. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents experience substantially increased risk for suicide compared to their non-SGM peers. ⋯ Sleep duration is a crucial and understudied mechanism underlying suicide risk disparities affecting SGM adolescents. Family-based interventions may improve SGM adolescent sleep and reduce suicide risk.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2023
Walking more, not faster, is associated with bone health in China of community-dwelling older women:A cross-sectional study.
To examine the association between daily steps and step intensity with bone health in Chinese community-dwelling older women. ⋯ Increasing the number of daily steps or the duration of walking, whether fast or slow, may benefit the bone health of older women.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2023
Temporal trends and geographic variations in mortality rates from tobacco and firearms in the United States.
We explored temporal trends and geographic variations in United States of America (US) mortality rates from smoking and firearms from 1999 to 2019. To do so, we used the publicly available Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) with Multiple Cause of Death files from 1999 to 2019. Using age-specific rates and ArcGIS Pro Advanced software for Optimized Hot Spot Analyses from Esri, we generated maps of statistically significant spatial clusters with 90-99% confidence intervals with the Getis-Ord Gi* statistic for mortality from smoking-related causes and firearms. ⋯ The trends suggest smoking and firearm-related causes pose particular challenges to the Southeast and firearms also to the West and Alaska. These data may aid clinicians and public health authorities to implement evidence-based smoking avoidance and cessation programs as well as address firearm mortality, with particular attention to the areas of highest risks. As has been the case with cigarettes, individual behavior changes as well as societal changes are likely to be needed to achieve decreases in premature mortality.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2023
Acral lentiginous melanoma incidence by sex, race, ethnicity, and stage in the United States, 2010-2019.
Acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a rare type of melanoma associated with delayed diagnosis and poor survival rates. This study examines ALM incidence rates in comparison to all other melanoma types. ⋯ These findings suggest that awareness of the potential for ALM in patients of all races and ethnicities could be balanced with an understanding of the rarity of the disease and the potential for the development of other melanoma types in racial and ethnic minority groups.
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Preventive medicine · Oct 2023
A new metabolic syndrome prediction model for self-evaluation as a primary screening tool in an apparently MetS-free population.
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a growing global public health concern associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The study aimed to establish a simple self-evaluated prediction model to identify MetS. ⋯ A new model for self-evaluation may serve as a primary, easy-to-use screening tool to identify MetS in an apparently MetS-free population. A simple application may serve for primary and secondary prevention, thus enabling risk reduction in the development of cardiovascular morbidity and health expenditure.