PURPOSE To examine whether there is a direct or a mediated association between dysfunctional parental behavior in later childhood and involvement in dating violence in a sample of low socioeconomic-status boys during mid-adolescence. METHODS Subjects were 717 boys who participated in a longitudinal study. Data collected at six time periods, beginning at age 10 years and covering a span of 8 y...

OBJECTIVE To reassess the inclination of lower incisors and evaluate possible associations with gender, age, symphyseal parameters, and skeletal pattern. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve hundred and seventy-two (605 females, 667 males) cephalograms of untreated subjects of a craniofacial growth study (age: 8-16 years) were evaluated. Correlations between the angulation of the lower incisors and a...

Vertigo or dizziness is infrequent in pediatric patients. In this study, we retrospectively investigated the prevalence and etiology of vertigo children. The subjects were 127 patients who less than 16 years old (at first visit) visited university hospital Kyoto Prefectural University Medicine between January 2008 March 2022, with chief complaint dizziness. consisted 53 boys 74 girls, a mean ag...

BACKGROUND Testicular adrenal rest tumors (TARTs) are found in 30-94% of adult males with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). We sought to explore TART appearance through yearly ultrasound examination of testes in young boys with CAH, and its association with metabolic control and genetic mutations. METHODS Twenty-five boys with 21-hydroxylase deficiency in the age group 4-18 years diagnose...

Homesickness is the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home. It is characterized by acute longing and preoccupying thoughts of home and attachment objects. This study extended previous research on the phenomenology of childhood homesickness by assessing a sample of 316 boys, ages 8-16, who were spending 2 weeks at a single-sex residential summer camp. Some...

OBJECTIVE Minor illnesses and major diseases are affected by individual, environmental, and social factors. The purpose of the study was to determine if cardiovascular reactivity, an individual characteristic, was related to adolescent boys' health status and behaviors. METHODS A total of 89 low socioeconomic status 16-year-old boys who had been classified using teacher ratings during childho...

A sensitive enzymatic isotope derivative method for simultaneous determination of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine in 0.1 ml plasma samples is described. The assay consists basically of 1. conversion of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine into their respective methyl-derivates in the presence of catechol-O-methyltransferase and S-adenosylmethionine-[3H]methyl, 2. extraction of th...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the developmental stages of the third molar in Israeli children, compare its development in boys and girls, in the maxilla and mandible, right to left sides in various age groups, and relate the developmental stage to chronological age. METHODS Panoramic radiographs of 693 healthy children and adolescents (328 boys and 365 girls) ages 7 to 16 w...