... for all adolescents, particularly for minorities and some females. The study found that white and African-American adolescents generally had fewer symptoms of depressive at high levels of religious ...
What are the greatest health challenges facing American adolescents, and to what degree is the nation's health care system meeting these challenges? ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES: MISSING OPPORTUNITIES, ...
Although only 25 percent of eligible African-American adolescents have received the HPV vaccine, a new survey ... 71 females for the study; 94 percent were African-American and the mean age was 15.3 years. ...
... designed to bring it down by excreting more salt in the urine doesn't work well in about one-third of healthy, African-American adolescents, researchers report.
... boys than for girls.
"These findings imply that ethnic pride is important to African American adolescents' mental health for other reasons than it simply makes them feel better about themselves as ...
Peer relationships are an important part of adolescence for most American adolescents. As teens find their places in the peer ... polled 2,465 African American, Asian American, and Latino teenagers ages 14 ...
... brand choice, with African Americans as a whole more likely to use menthol brands. African-American adolescent and young adult smokers used menthol as frequently as did older African-American smokers ...
... girls who did not undergo HORIZONS training.
"African-American adolescent females seeking treatment for STDs are at high risk for HIV. However, no interventions have demonstrated ...
... examined the effects of a mother's psychological control on the risk for depression of African American adolescents. Researchers found that girls whose mothers played mental games with them like ...
... of the religious allegiance and measured IQ
of a representative sample of 3,742 American adolescents found a
clear trend: the more fundamentalist denominations had the more
stupid believers, so that ...
... She discovered that 71 percent of African-American adolescents, along with 71 percent of white ... online, Tynes still thinks it's important for adolescents to spend time on the Internet.
"When you're ...
Marijuana use appears to have decreased among most European and North American adolescents between 2002 and 2006, and those who went out with friends on fewer evenings of the week were less likely to ...
One in seven American adolescents is vitamin D deficient, according to a new study by researchers in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. The findings are published in the ...
... JAMA/Archives journals. Almost 40 percent of Mexican American adolescents age 12 to 19 were overweight or at ... type 2 diabetes in 54 overweight Latino adolescents (average age 15.5). Participants were ...
Two-thirds of American teenagers have sex by the time they're 18. A new longitudinal study ... Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a representative sample of American adolescents. Each year, the teens reported ...
