A Comparison of Sociodemographic Correlates of Cigarette, Alcohol, and Energy Drink Consumption among High School Students in the United States, 2010-2015 [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: Despite growing awareness about the harmful physiological effects of energy drinks, especially among young people, there is little regulation governing the marketing and sale of these products to adolescents.
Cha, Eun Me +2 more
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Measuring quality of care with routine data: avoiding confusion between performance indicators and health outcomes [PDF]
Objective To investigate the impact of factors outside the control of primary care on performance indicators proposed as measures of the quality of primary care.
Giuffrida, A, Gravelle, H, Roland, M
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Objective Socioeconomic status is a risk factor for worse outcomes in many diseases. However, evidence on the association between socioeconomic status and clinical outcome in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) is limited.
Yu Hashimoto +16 more
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Breastfeeding shows a protective trend toward adolescents with higher abdominal adiposity [PDF]
Objective: The question of whether breastfeeding has a protective effect against the development of overweight or obesity later in life remains controversial, especially during adolescence.
De Henauw, Stefaan +12 more
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Unemployed, uneducated and sick: the effects of socioeconomic status on health duration in the European Union [PDF]
This paper employs a logistic model to measure the effect of socioeconomic and individual characteristics on the length of time an individual remains in good health.
Artazcoz +46 more
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Background A great number of studies have concentrated on the influence of socioeconomic status with health outcomes, but little on how socioeconomic status affects social relationship in adolescents’ families, peers and schools.
Jing Li +7 more
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Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: Multi-cohort population based study [PDF]
Objective To assess the association of low socioeconomic status and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (diabetes, high alcohol intake, high blood pressure, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking) with loss of physical functioning at older ages ...
Avendano, M. (Mauricio) +29 more
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Low and deficient niacin status and pellagra are endemic in postwar Angola [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Outbreaks of pellagra were documented during the civil war in Angola, but no contemporary data on the incidence of pellagra or the prevalence of niacin deficiency were available.
Cheung, E +6 more
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Objective: Women's quality of life is essential both for women’s and their family’s health. The aim of this study was to examine the quality of life status and interaction of subjective socioeconomic status and violence, on quality of life of married ...
Manoocher Koulani +5 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health among Swedish adolescents - adding the subjective perspective [PDF]
Background Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health predict future inequalities in adult health. Subjective measures of socioeconomic status (SES) may contribute with an increased understanding of these inequalities.
A Klocke +42 more
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