Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2006 Pediatric and adolescent care professionals have increasingly recognized the importance of understanding the skeletal health of their patients. Peak bone mass, the "bone bank" on which an individual will draw for their entire adult life, is likely achieved by late adolescence, with the critical window for accumulation occurring much earlier.
Keith J, Loud, Catherine M, Gordon
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News from the international study Control of Adolescent Smoking : Adolescent smoking trends and intentions to smoke in eight European countries [PDF]
, 2011 This study was funded by EC BIOMED II grant BMH4-CT98-3721, Transnational variation in prevalence of adolescent smoking: the role of national tobacco policies and the school and family ...
Griesbach, D, Currie, Candace
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News from the international study Control of Adolescent Smoking : Smoking, school achievement and educational aspirations among Scottish adolescents [PDF]
, 2012 This study was funded by EC BIOMED II grant BMH4-CT98-3721, Transnational variation in prevalence of adolescent smoking: the role of national tobacco policies and the school and family ...
Griesbach, D, Currie, Candace
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News from the international study Control of Adolescent Smoking : Comparing national policies on smoking in eight European countries [PDF]
, 2011 This study was funded by EC BIOMED II grant BMH4-CT98-3721, Transnational variation in prevalence of adolescent smoking: the role of national tobacco policies and the school and family ...
Griesbach, D, Currie, Candace
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Adolescent Health and the Environment [PDF]
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2000 The effects of toxicants depend on the dose and the time in the life span when exposure occurs. The biology of adolescence is distinctive and provides opportunities for unique actions of toxicants both in terms of disruption of function and disruption of maturation.
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Health behaviour in school-aged children : World Health Organization collaborative cross-national study (HBSC): findings from the 2010 HBSC survey in Scotland [PDF]
, 2011 The HBSC study in Scotland is funded by NHS Health ScotlandThe report, produced by CAHRU with funding support from NHS Health Scotland, provides a unique picture of the health of young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in Scotland over the last two decades.
Currie, Dorothy Bruce +5 more
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BMC Medicine, 2020 Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.2 calls for an end to all forms of malnutrition, with 2025 targets of a 40% reduction in stunting (relative to 2012), for wasting to occur in less than 5% of children, and for a 50% reduction in anaemia in ...
Nick Scott +11 more
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Respiratory Research, 2023 Background Forced vital capacity (FVC) reflects respiratory health, but the long-term trend and heterogeneity in FVC of Chinese students were understudied.
Siying Zhang +8 more
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Role of polygenic risk scores in the association between chronotype and health risk behaviors
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background This study explores the association between chronotypes and adolescent health risk behaviors (HRBs) by testing how genetic background moderates these associations and clarifies the influence of chronotypes and polygenic risk score (PRS) on ...
Yi Zhang +8 more
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Sexual health among young people in Scotland [PDF]
, 2010 The HBSC study in Scotland is funded by NHS Health ...
van der Sluijs, Winfried +3 more
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