Volume 85, Number 5 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 509 A 20-year-old man presented to his university’s student health clinic with intermittent pain in his right knee that began two months earlier. He had no history of knee injury or surgery and was otherwise in good health. Physical examination showed a visually normal knee with no effusion. He had normal range of motion but slight ...

College-aged males are at high risk for human papillomavirus (HPV); however, vaccination rates remain low, suggesting minimal HPV knowledge. Therefore, an educational intervention was developed and implemented to determine if an increase in HPV knowledge, perceived HPV risk, intention and perceived self-efficacy to obtain the vaccine, and vaccination rates were observed.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between kinetic visual acuity and reaction time in college students. Eighteen male college students, mean age: 21.5±2.2 years, participated in this study. Static and kinetic visual acuity and simple and choice reaction time were measured. In addition, visual evoked potential using pattern reversal stimulus was recorded. These items w...

Noonan syndrome have been suggested by Levy and associates, who reported the first case of male to male transmission of this condition and postulated that in some families it may be transmitted in an autosomal dominant manner with variable expressivity(9). Baird and Dejong have subsequently reported a family in which the syndrome was transmitted through three generations in a dominant manner(10...

24 The anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-10 is important for regulating 25 inflammation both in the periphery and brain but whether it protects against infectionor age26 related psychomotor disturbances and fatigue is unknown. Therefore, the current study 27 evaluated motor coordination, time to fatigue, and several central and peripheral 28 proinflammatory cytokines in male young adu...

Introduction: Self-esteem is a sense of values, the degree of approval, affirmation, acceptance and being valuable that a person has toward himself. As exercise causes a feeling of adequacy and efficiency, it may increase self-esteem. The present research aimed to study the effect of a physical activity program on self-esteem of male college students. Methods:</st...

the purpose followed in this study was to investigate entrepreneurial characteristics prevailent among the students of university college of agriculture, university of tehran carried out through a descriptive-survey method. the research population consisted of students of the university college of agriculture, university of tehran from among whom 123 were selected through stratified random samp...

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BACKGROUND Hypertension causes considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, evidences on the burden of hypertension and associated factors are lacking among college students in resource-poor settings. This study measured the prevalence of hypertension and associated factors among university students in Gondar, Ethiopia. METHODS Institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted...