Adolescent Feeding: Nutritional Risk Factors

Risk Factors in Adolescent Hypertension

Hypertension is a complex and multifaceted disease, with many contributing factors. While diet and nutrition are important influences, the confounding effects of overweight and obesity, metabolic and genetic factors, racial and ethnic predispositions, socioeconomic status, cultural influences, growth rate, and pubertal stage have even more influence and make diagnosis quite challenging. The pre...

Lower Extremity Risk Factors in Iranian Adolescent Taekwondo Players

Background: Taekwondo is a martial art and contact sport in which the athletes' goal is to strike the opponent with maximal force. This fact exposes Taekwondo practitioners to the permanent risk of injuries. Therefore, this prospective study investigated the internal risk factors of lower extremity injuries among adolescent male taekwondo players. Methods: In total, 60 adolescent Taekwondo pla...

NUTRITIONAL RISK FACTORS OF BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS by

Adolescent suicide. Risk factors and prevention.

Adolescent Sexual Aggression: Risk and Protective Factors

Objective. Little research addresses the correlates of sexual aggression in nonclinical populations of adolescents. The purpose of this study was to identify risk and protective factors associated with sexual violence among male and female adolescents. Methods. We analyzed data on 71 594 students in the 9th and 12th grades responding to the 1992 Minnesota Student Survey, an anonymous, self-repo...