Residence in neighborhoods with higher opportunity or lower vulnerability in early life, especially at birth, may be associated with lower mean BMI trajectory and lower risk of obesity through adolescence, according to a ...
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People with a wide range of emotional disorders, including anxiety disorder and depression, react negatively to uncertainty. When worrying about future events, not knowing can feel very uncomfortable, leading to increased ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Patients with social needs experience a higher number of hospitalizations, obesity, prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis on the social determinants ...
Dec 12, 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic changed the lifestyles of people, especially those of children, significantly. As lockdowns were declared across the world, they added sedentary time to children's schedules. Sedentary behavior is defined ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Science is about discovery. It's about answering questions and, often, raising new ones.
Nov 9, 2022
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New research from University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers is shedding light on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality in women who live in economically deprived neighborhoods.
Nov 8, 2022
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An Oregon State University study published in Science Advances has found that traffic congestion is linked to decreased birthweight for full-term babies born to parents living near areas of heavy traffic, such as highways ...
Oct 31, 2022
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Neighborhood walkability, a measure of how easy and safe it is to walk to reach resources for daily living, such as a grocery store, pharmacy, school, work and church, is associated with lower cardiovascular disease burden ...
Oct 31, 2022
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Children living in neighborhoods with greater hardships, such as substandard housing or high pollution, are more likely to use emergency departments (EDs), including to address complaints that could be managed by their pediatricians, ...
Sep 5, 2022
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Teens who live in neighborhoods with trusted, engaged adults can still develop critical social skills that were not nurtured early in life, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Aug 31, 2022
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