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Lipoprotein(a): a Case for Universal Screening in Youth

Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 2023
Lipoprotein(a) has emerged as a strong independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Targeted screening recommendations for Lp(a) measurement exist for adults and youth known to be at high-risk. However, Lp(a) measurements are not included in universal screening guidelines in the US; hence, most families in the US with high Lp(a) levels who are ...
Aparna Alankar, Preneet C. Brar, Brenda Kohn   +2 more
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The University of Denver's University for Youth

Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1981
The University for Youth is an innovative program for gifted and talented children from preschool through high school level. For six weeks during the summer, and after school during the school year, the University of Denver offers a wide variety of courses to stimulate and challenge young minds.
Elinor Katz, Ken Seeley
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University Youth’ Leisure Practices

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2020
The paper presents the results of a pilot empirical sociological research. The leisure activities of the university youth in a small Arctic mono-industry Apatity town was studied. Leisure is considered as an important youth’ resource of self-development, self-realization and relaxation.
Olga N. Popova*, Irina V. Vicentiy, Sergey M. Eliseev   +2 more
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The parallel universe of homeless and HIV-positive youth

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 2003
The HIV/AIDS crisis among teens in this country is alarming, but the rates are even more staggering when these youth are homeless. They tend to live in a world typically considered by those trying to care for them-family, friends, and healthcare providers-as unreachable and hopeless.
Deborah L, Ebner, Marcia M, Laviage
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Alcohol Consumption and Prehypertension: An Investigation of University Youth

Behavioral Medicine, 2008
Prehypertension and heavy alcohol consumption increase the risk for primary hypertension (PH), a major predictor of cardiovascular-related morbidity and mortality. Although undergraduate college students have exhibited prehypertensive blood pressure (BP) levels and more than 40% of undergraduates drink heavily, few researchers have examined both risk ...
Randall S, Jorgensen, Stephen A, Maisto
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The Impact of University Openings on Local Youth

This study investigates how the establishment of a new university affects the educational pathways for younger cohorts. By analyzing cohorts at various stages of their education, we show a notable shift towards higher education and a decline in completion rates for vocational training programs across all cohorts.
Hertweck, Friederike, Yasar, Serife
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Universal Education of the Working Youth

Soviet Education, 1965
The CPSU Program has posed the task of providing, by 1970, an eight-year education for that portion of the youth which is employed in the national economy and does not have an incomplete secondary education. In recent years a great deal has been done to accomplish this task. Thus, in the RSFSR the number of students of the 5th-8th grades of the evening
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A whole-of-university response to youth justice: Reflections on a university–youth justice partnership

The University of Sydney and Youth Justice New South Wales signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in July 2021. This MoU builds on various prior collaborative activities between the two organisations and related work in other jurisdictions. This paper reflects on the progress and challenges of collaboration of this kind.
Garner Clancey, Cecilia Drumore, Laura Metcalfe   +2 more
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Childhood, Youth and University Studies

2019
Ludwig Prandtl was born in 1875 in Freising near Munich. His father was a professor at the Landwirtschaftlichen Zentralschule Weihenstephan (Agricultural Central School, Weihenstephan). Following his school education in Freising (Lateinschule) and Munich (Ludwigsgymnasium), Prandtl studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University Munich.
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