AIM To assess the effect of weight gain in childhood on blood lipid levels in adolescence. METHODS A population-based birth cohort carried out in Pelotas, Southern Brazil. All newborns in the city's hospitals were enrolled in 1982. The subjects have been followed up for several times in childhood. At age 18, 79% of all males were followed, and 2083 blood samples were available. Adjusted analy...

adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. there are approximately 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years) globally, roughly 90% of whom live in low and middle-income countries. most are healthy, but there is still significant death, illness and diseases among adolescents. illnesses c...

Postponing parenthood beyond the teen years can improve child wellbeing by increasing the odds of a healthy birth. Compared to older mothers, teen mothers were less likely to receive prenatal care, more likely to smoke during pregnancy, and more likely to have a birth that is preterm and/or low-birthweight. Consequently, teen mothers also experience higher rates of infant mortality, and infants...

OBJECTIVE Despite the high prevalence and burden of low back pain (LBP), understanding of its course during the transition from adolescence to adulthood is limited. The aim of this study was to identify and describe trajectories of LBP and its impact among a general population sample followed from adolescence to young adulthood. METHODS Data from followup assessments at years 17, 20, and 22 o...

This paper examines how conceptualisations of adolescence and adolescent pregnancy by the Brazilian state between 1989 2010 have shaped social policy addressing pregnancy. was examined based on documents public health indicators concerned with According to this data, adolescents were initially seen as a homogenous group vulnerable risk. While parts government began perceive more heterogeneous i...

This study was conducted at the Santa Izabel Maternity Hospital in the town of Bauru, São Paulo State, Brazil, in order to investigate abortions and miscarriages in adolescence, comparing them to terminations among adult women. The indicators are used to draw up an epidemiological profile of hospitalized women through data collected from documents on women with diagnoses of abortion or miscarri...

adolescents and young adults can have negative effects on their cognitive performance and growth. If pregnancy occurs during adolescence, anemia can not only increase maternal morbidity and mortality, but increase the incidence of poor birth outcomes in the infant (e.g., low birth weight, and prematurity) and also negatively impact infant iron status. Furthermore, through its effects on cogniti...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent hyperandrogenic infertility and cardiometabolic disorder that increases a woman's lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. It is heritable and intensely familial. Progress toward a cure has been delayed by absence of an etiology. Evidence is mounting, however, for in utero T excess, together with gestational hyperglycemia, contributing to either...