Over the past decade, abolitionist feminist and evangelical Christian activists have directed increasing attention toward the “traffic in women” as a dangerous manifestation of global gender inequalities. Despite renowned disagreements around the politics of sex and gender, these groups have come together to advocate for harsher penalties against traffickers, prostitutes’ customers, and nations...

OBJECTIVE To investigate weight concerns among adolescent boys and relationships with health indicators and family factors. DESIGN Analysis of the 2010 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey of 10-17-year-olds. SETTING Schools in the Republic of Ireland. RESULTS Among 6187 boys, 25.1% reported a desire to lose weight (weight 'loss' concern) and 7.7% reported a desire to gain weig...

OBJECTIVES To study changes in pain of the back and neck in adolescents between 1985 and 2001 and pain of the neck, shoulder, and lower back between 1991 and 2001. DESIGN Biennial nationwide postal surveys, 1985-2001, and annual classroom surveys, 1996-2001. SETTING Finland. PARTICIPANTS 62 677 12, 14, 16, and 18 year olds and 127 217 14-16 year olds. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Pain in the b...

The aetiology of 197 girls and 16 boys presenting with sexual precocity was reviewed. Ninety one girls and four boys had central precocious puberty (M:F 23:1); a cause was identified in all the boys but in only six girls. All boys with precocious puberty need detailed investigation; in girls investigation should be based on clinical findings, particularly the consonance of puberty.

The aim of this study was to describe dietary glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) values in the diets of Danish children, and to examine the associations between dietary GI, GL and body fatness. Data were collected during 1997-8 as part of the European Youth Heart Study. The study population comprised 485 children aged 10 years and 364 children aged 16 years from Odense County, Denmark...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to identify metabolites associated with metabolic risk, separately by sex, in Mexican adolescents. METHODS Untargeted metabolomic profiling was carried out on fasting serum of 238 youth aged 8 to 14 years, and metabolites associated with a metabolic syndrome risk z-score (MetRisk z-score) were identified separately for boys and girls, using the simulation ...