Documented Lifestyle Education Among Young Adults with Incident Hypertension

Casual Sex among Young Adults: Education Differentials

Urinary melatonin and risk of incident hypertension among young women.

OBJECTIVE Administered in supraphysiologic doses, the hormone melatonin may reduce blood pressure, particularly nocturnal blood pressure. However, whether lower physiologic levels of melatonin are an independent risk factor for the development of hypertension has never been reported. METHODS We examined the association between first morning urine melatonin levels and the risk of developing hy...

Undiagnosed hypertension among young adults with regular primary care use

OBJECTIVE Young adults meeting hypertension diagnostic criteria have a lower prevalence of a hypertension diagnosis than middle-aged and older adults. The purpose of this study was to compare the rates of a new hypertension diagnosis for different age groups and identify predictors of delays in the initial diagnosis among young adults who regularly use primary care. METHODS A 4-year retrospec...

Negative social interactions and incident hypertension among older adults.

OBJECTIVE To determine if negative social interactions are prospectively associated with hypertension among older adults. METHOD This is a secondary analysis of data from the 2006 and 2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, a survey of community-dwelling older adults (age > 50 years). Total average negative social interactions were assessed at baseline by averaging the frequency of neg...

Health, schooling and lifestyle among young adults in Finland.

This was a longitudinal, general population study based on a Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort, using a structural equation approach to estimate the health production function and health input functions for four lifestyle variables (smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise and unhealthy diet) for males and females. In particular, we examined the productive and allocative effects of education on ...