OBJECTIVE To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of anthropometric measurements of body fat in a sample of Brazilian adolescents for the prediction of hypertension. METHODS The arterial blood pressure was measured on two visits in a sample of 456 students aged 12 to 17 years, from public and private schools of the Fonseca neighborhood, in Niterói, between 2003 and 2004. A subject was def...

Researchers now recognize that affluent youth experience tremendous achievement pressures, yet contributing factors or outcomes are rarely explored. Using a sample of affluent adolescents, the present study investigates the mediating role of goal orientation (GO) on relations between school motivational climate (MC) and adolescent adjustment. Adolescents from four high schools completed measure...

Childhood obesity and related health consequences continue to be major clinical and public health issues in the United States. Schools provide an opportunity to implement obesity prevention strategies to large and diverse pediatric audiences. Healthier Options for Public Schoolchildren was a quasiexperimental elementary school-based obesity prevention intervention targeting ethnically diverse 6...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a two-year school-based intervention, consisting of integrated and replicable physical activity and nutritional education on weight, fat percentage, cardiovascular risk factors, and blood pressure. DESIGN AND SETTING Six elementary schools in Reykjavik were randomly assigned to be either intervention (n = 3) or control (n = 3) schools. Seven-year-old c...

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is a relatively new neurologic disorder first described by Salamon Hakim of Bogotá, Colombia, in 1965. NPH is characterized by three symptoms - impaired gait, incontinence and dementia - and an anatomic abnormality, i.e., enlargement of the cerebral ventricles, which can be seen on computerized tomographic or magnetic resonance imaging. Surprisingly, the intr...

We use price pressure resulting from purchases by mutual funds with large capital inflows to identify overvalued equity. This is a relatively exogenous overvaluation indicator as it is associated with who is buying – buyers with excess liquidity – rather than what is being purchased. We document substantial stock price impact associated with purchases by high-inflow mutual funds, and find the p...

Education is strongly inversely associated with common carotid artery intima-media thickness in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. The authors extended the ARIC study of preclinical atherosclerosis by evaluating the cross-sectional association of education with common carotid artery elasticity. This study included 10,091 Black and White men and women aged 45-64 years who were...

BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is more prevalent among Iranian adolescences. This study aimed to find the relationship between obesity and MetS among different education grades of Iranian adolescence. MATERIALS AND METHODS Overall, 1039 junior high school and 953 high school students were selected using multistage random sampling. Fasting blood sugar, total cholesterol, triglyceride (TG...

objective: this research aimed at evaluating the moderator role of school connection on the impact of violent friends towards aggressive behaviors in adolescent students of tehran high schools. methods: a sample of 3529 participants from tehran high school students was selected using multistage sampling method. participants completed school connection questionnaire (scq), iranian adolescents ri...