BACKGROUND Twin studies of hoarding symptoms indicate low to moderate heritability during adolescence and considerably higher heritability in older samples, suggesting dynamic developmental etiological effects. The aim of the current study was to estimate the relative contribution of additive genetic and environmental effects to hoarding symptoms during adolescence and young adulthood and to es...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of the female athlete triad (disordered eating, menstrual irregularity, and low bone mass) among high school athletes. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. SETTING High school. PARTICIPANTS Female athletes (n= 170) representing 8 sports were recruited from 6 high schools in southern California. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Disordered eating and menst...

Objectives: To expose the injured participant’s age, training duration and sporting event, identify other associated knee injuries, extract types of injury, recurrence injuries among athlete, know about management injury (medication, physiotherapy or both). Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was chosen to achieve objectives study. 40 subjects were selected through convenience ...

Due to chronic dissatisfaction with body weight in youth, efforts to lose weight often lead to pathological dietary behaviours. Regular and heavy sports activity may contribute to the optimization of body weight, not only by elevating the energy utilization but also by increasing the health consciousness and the tendency to self-monitor. Research generally finds a beneficial role of extracurric...

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of somatotype and body composition variables on leg explosive power of college level men students. The sample consisted of 500 young college students, divided into two groups: athletes (N=250) undergoing Bachelor of Physical Education course whose mean age 23.86 ± 0.36 years; and nonathletes (N=250) college students who do not take part regular p...

With the invention of technology devices such as wireless headphones and portable Bluetooth speakers, teenagers have gradually become heavily reliant on music during exercising/practicing. To find underlying reason for this habit, an anonymous survey was sent out to 50 high school boarding students in America 9th December 2022 regarding purpose listening exercising/practicing, their preferences...