Childhood-symptom factors were assessed for a sample of 43 male children, initially diagnosed as schizophrenic during the young-adult period, in terms of their relationship to parental factors. The parental factors plus additional family variables not derived by factor analysis were evaluated as predictors of outcome over a 22-year period extending from early to middle adulthood. Two maternal f...

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia is a disease process without an obvious etiology. While some evidence suggests that adverse experiences in childhood contribute to its development, specific evidence has been equivocal. METHODS A total of 36 patients with fibromyalgia from the greater New York area were recruited and surveyed using the Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance S...

Data were gathered anonymously on a group of male homosexuals who were functioning adequately in the community. Ss were administered the Perception of Parent Behavior Scale which consists of a list of 60 items covering childhood situations to which parents might react. Results were factor analyzed, yielding patterns of reactions which differentiated homosexuals from controls at high levels of s...

Obesity has been recognized as a major public health problem and one of the most important causes of the burden of disease worldwide (Ezzati et al, 2002). Its prevalence has escalated over the last two decades, reaching pandemic levels in the developed countries and also increasing in the developing world (Wang & Lobstein, 2006). In fact, in the newsletter of the World Health Organization/Europ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of thyroid hormone deficiencies in childhood on the elements of coagulation proteins. Consecutive 54 children with hypothyroidism and 55 healthy controls aged 1 month-16 years were enrolled. One year after Na-L-thyroxine treatment, the study parameters were reevaluated. Thyroid function tests, procoagulant and anticoagulant proteins were perf...

Naumburg, E. 2002. Perinatal Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1111. 44 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91 –554 –5205-1 The aim of the studies described in this thesis was to assess the association between certain perinatal factors and the risk of childhood lymphatic and myeloid leukemia and infant...

BACKGROUND Childhood abuse has been associated with negative adult health outcomes, including obesity. This study sought to investigate the association between childhood physical abuse and adult obesity, while controlling for five clusters of potentially confounding factors: childhood stressors, socioeconomic indicators, marital status, health behaviors, and mental health. METHODS Representat...

BACKGROUND The relationships between childhood lifestyle risk factors and adulthood pulse wave velocity (PWV) have not been reported. We studied whether childhood and adulthood lifestyle risk factors are associated with PWV assessed in adulthood. METHODS AND RESULTS The study cohort comprised 1622 subjects of the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study followed up for 27 years since baseline...