American Journal of Preventive Medicine
The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) is the official journal of The American College of Preventive Medicine. Among medical journals, The American Journal of Preventive Medicine ranks 17 out of the top 100 journals. AJPM publishes monthly and offers reprints for a charge. The AJPM is offered on-line with excerpts of interesting studies affecting the health, safety, well-being of humans in a variety of contexts.
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Preventing repeat strokes -- are survivors taking their medicine?
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Since 1999, stroke survivors have been advised to use aspirin, prescription antiplatelet agents, or prescription anticoagulants to help avoid another stroke. Many large surveys of the U.S. population have reported the use ...
Older Adults Say Cash Might Motivate Them to Walk
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006, a team of researchers set out to examine what sorts of walking programs and incentives might induce sedentary people over age 50 to put on their sneakers. They found that small cash payments might ...
Adults with asthma not getting their flu shots
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Because of increased risk of complications from influenza, vaccination of adults and children with asthma is recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The Healthy People 2010 Objectives call for annual ...
Social Smokers: Turning the Tables on Big Tobacco
Jun 16, 2009 |
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The tobacco industry knows exactly what makes social smokers tick. Now, researchers want to use that once-secret information to help them quit.
Study shows moderate intensity walking means 100 steps per minute
Mar 17, 2009 |
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The benefits of moderate physical activity to general health and well-being are well known. It is recommended that people engage in 150 minutes per week of moderate intensity physical activity, equivalent to 30 minutes each ...
Sustained Physical Activity Better for Preventing Obesity in Kids
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Several bursts of exercise that last five minutes or more might be better for preventing childhood obesity than are intermittent physical activity sessions lasting four minutes or less throughout the day.
Sexual lyrics in popular songs linked to early sexual experiences
Feb 24, 2009 |
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With sexual activity among adolescents in the United States resulting in over 750,000 teenage pregnancies each year and reports of up to 25 percent of all female adolescents in the US having sexually transmitted infections, ...
Study: 1 in 10 binge drinkers get on the road
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One in 10 binge drinkers got behind the wheel the last time they drank heavily. And half of those drivers left from a bar, restaurant or nightclub after downing five or more drinks, a new study has found.
First national study to examine rock climbing-related injuries
Jul 21, 2009 |
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In the past decade the popularity of rock climbing has dramatically increased. It has been estimated that rock climbing is now enjoyed by more than 9 million people in the U.S. each year. A new study by researchers at the ...
Where you live may affect your state of mind
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Frequent Mental Distress (FMD), defined as having 14 or more days in the previous month when stress, depression and emotional problems were not good , is not evenly distributed across the United States. In fact, certain geographic ...
Healthy food availability could depend on where you live -- so does the quality of your diet
Feb 25, 2009 |
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The availability of healthy food choices and your quality of diet is associated with where you live, according to two studies conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers examined ...
Nicotine gum effective for gradual smoking reduction and cessation
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Nicotine gum has been in use for over 20 years to help smokers quit abruptly yet close to two-thirds of smokers report that they would prefer to quit gradually. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and GlaxoSmithKline ...
New national study finds increasing number of injuries from hot tubs
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Though hot tubs, whirlpools and spas are widely used for relaxation and fun, they can pose serious risk for injury. Over the past two decades, as recreational use of hot tubs has increased, so has the number of injuries. ...
Green neighborhoods may reduce childhood obesity
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Childhood obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and emotional distress. Obese children and youth are likely to be obese as adults, experience more cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure ...
Continuing racial differences in HIV prevalence in US
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 06, 2009 |
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HIV prevalence among African Americans is ten times greater than the prevalence among whites. This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions ...
