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Obese teenagers face higher metabolic syndrome risk in South America than Europe

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obese teenagers are much more likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome - which can lead to heart disease – if they live in Brazil than Italy, according to a study in the October issue of IJCP, the International Journal o ...





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Less than 3 percent of UK 11-year-olds take enough exercise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 13, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Less than 3 per cent of UK 11 year olds are taking enough exercise, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.


Teenage boys take less responsibility for preventing the spread of chlamydia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Teenage boys in Sweden take less responsibility than girls for preventing the spread of chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections, according to a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, ...


Teen attitudes toward smoking linked to likelihood of drinking and using drugs

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers looks at the specific ways parents and peers influence teenagers to smoke, drink and use marijuana in combination. Among their findings: attitudes toward smoking influenced ...


New study finds gender divide in children's use of cell phone features (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

It's a given that many children will ask their parents for cell phones this Christmas. Now, a recent study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) sociologist Shelia Cotten, Ph.D., finds that the way the kids will use ...


Male births are more likely to reduce quality of life and increase severe post-natal depression

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created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Giving birth to a boy can lead to higher levels of severe post-natal depression (PND) and reduced quality of life than having a girl, according to research published in the February issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing.


Deep Voices Scare Adolescent Girls but Turn on Teens

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from The University of St. Andrews in Scotland has discovered that teenage girls are attracted by deep male voices, while younger girls feel intimidated by them.


Friendship is mainly about 'me, me and me'

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Young people mainly select their friends according to the image they have of another person, irrespective of whether the person concerned actually satisfies that image. Dutch researcher Maarten Selfhout has demonstrated that ...


Researchers find differences in how adolescent girls’ and boys’ brains react to peer interaction

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), including a Georgia State University scientist, have found differences between girls and boys in how parts of the brain develop in ...


Children with headache

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Family quarrels and a lack of free time can promote headaches in children. This is what Jennifer Gassmann and her coauthors concluded in their study on risk factors, which appears in the current issue of the Deutsches &A ...


Annual costs of stroke in US children at least $42 million

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created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stroke in children costs at least $42 million annually in the United States, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.



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