News tagged with education level

Impoverished schools, parent education key factors in student weight

Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists.

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Lower risk of breast cancer occurrence but higher mortality amongst low-educated and immigrant women

(Medical Xpress) -- Low-educated and immigrant women run a lower risk of breast cancer occurrence than highly educated women and women born in Sweden. However, the risk of dying from breast cancer is higher for those low-educated ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marijuana use associated with cyclic vomiting syndrome in young males

Researchers have found clear associations between marijuana use in young males and cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), where patients experience episodes of vomiting separated by symptom free intervals.

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 11

Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance

The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Cognitive decline can begin as early as age 45: study

The brain's capacity for memory, reasoning and comprehension skills (cognitive function) can start to deteriorate from age 45, finds research published in the British Medical Journal today.

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created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

School absenteeism, mental health problems linked

School absenteeism is a significant problem, and students who are frequently absent from school more often have symptoms of psychiatric disorders. A new longitudinal study of more than 17,000 youths has found that frequently ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Heart failure study: Health-literate patients not always adept at managing care

A patient's education level is not a fail-safe predictor of how well they will manage symptoms related to complicated chronic diseases, such as heart failure, according to a Purdue University study.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Abstinence-only education does not lead to abstinent behavior

States that prescribe abstinence-only sex education programs in public schools have significantly higher teenage pregnancy and birth rates than states with more comprehensive sex education programs, researchers from the University ...

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created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 15

Illegal drug use is associated with abnormal weight in teens

A survey of more than 33,000 Italian high school students reveals that both underweight and overweight teens consume 20 to 40% more illegal drugs than their normal-weight peers.

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neurological and executive function impairment associated with breast cancer

Women who survive breast cancer show significant neurological impairment, and outcomes appear to be significantly poorer for those treated with chemotherapy, according to a report in the November issue of the Archives of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Insomnia could moderately raise your heart attack risk

Having trouble sleeping? If so, you could have a moderately higher risk of having a heart attack, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fitness tests get tweaked

We're not saying they're not out there, somewhere, blithely crushing pre-pubescent souls with their whistles and clipboards and flexed-arm-hang timers.

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created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Violence during pregnancy linked to low birth weight

Pregnant women who are assaulted by an intimate partner are at increased risk of giving birth to infants of reduced weight, according to a population-level analysis of domestic violence supported by the National Institutes ...

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created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Role of alcohol intake and smoking on upper aerodigestive cancers

This paper provides an extensive analysis of the proportion of the risk of upper aero-digestive tract (UADT) cancers in the population (the population attributable risk) that may be due to alcohol consumption and/or smoking. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surprising results in a new study on childbearing and education

In almost every country, women with more education have fewer children. But does education reduce childbearing, or does childbearing get in the way of education, or both? New research by Joel E. Cohen and colleagues in Norway ...

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created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 9 | with audio podcast