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"... Obesity leads to increased risk of numerous chronic diseasesand conditions, including early mortality;1 however,almost 60 % of Canadian adults and over 1 in 4 young peo-ple aged 2-18 years are overweight/obese.2 Health-related quality of life (HRQL) refers to perceived physical and mental health ove ..."
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leading to improved HRQL.4 Yet, some studies have shown a posi-tive association between mental HRQL and weight status.5-7 More limited research exists linking youth obesity to poorer youth HRQL, including effects on self-reported health, self-esteem, and physical and social health and functioning.8
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"... Background: Despite the characteristic extensive tubulointerstitial fibrosis, Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN) is usually considered a non-inflammatory disease. Methods: We examined a marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein (CRP), in the offspring of patients with BEN, a population at risk for BE ..."
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for BEN, prior to development of established disease to determine if an inflammatory process could be identified in the early stages of the disease. In 2003/ 04, 102 adult offspring whose parents had BEN and a control group of 99 adult offspring of non-BEN patients were enrolled in this prospective study
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"... Social support and smoking abstinence among Conclusions: Inmates of smoke-free prisons have a head-start on being smoke-free for life. They have been Bock et al. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:859 ..."
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Social support and smoking abstinence among Conclusions: Inmates of smoke-free prisons have a head-start on being smoke-free for life. They have been Bock et al. BMC Public Health 2013, 13:859
Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: new procedures and recommendations
- PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS
, 2002
"... Mediation is said to occur when a causal effect of some variable X on an outcome Y is explained by some intervening variable M. The authors recommend that with small to moderate samples, bootstrap methods (B. Efron & R. Tibshirani, 1993) be used to assess mediation. Bootstrap tests are powerful ..."
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, social–cognitive psychologists are interested in showing that the effects of cognitive priming on attitude change are mediated by the accessibility of certain beliefs (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993). Developmental psychologists use longitudinal methods to study how parental unemployment can have adverse
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study 1
, 2007
"... of Wisconsin-Madison. A public use file of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study is available ..."
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of Wisconsin-Madison. A public use file of data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study is available
The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years
- NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
, 2007
"... The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 30 years. We performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity as a possible factor contributing to the obesity epidemic. Methods We evaluated a densely interconnected social networ ..."
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network of 12,067 people assessed repeatedly from 1971 to 2003 as part of the Framingham Heart Study. The body-mass index was available for all subjects. We used longitudinal statistical models to examine whether weight gain in one person was associated with weight gain in his or her friends, siblings
Longitudinal Studies Definition
"... A longitudinal study is defined as a study in which the response for each experimental unit in the study is observed on two or more occasions. The defining feature of a longitudinal data set is repeated observations on experimental units. Longitudinal data require special statistical methods because ..."
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A longitudinal study is defined as a study in which the response for each experimental unit in the study is observed on two or more occasions. The defining feature of a longitudinal data set is repeated observations on experimental units. Longitudinal data require special statistical methods
Learning to read and write: A longitudinal study of 54 children from first through fourth grades
- Journal of Educational Psychology
, 1988
"... My research focused on literacy development inchildren through fourth grade and followed an ..."
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My research focused on literacy development inchildren through fourth grade and followed an
Longitudinal study on pubertal insulin resistance,”
- Diabetes,
, 2001
"... Previous cross-sectional studies show that puberty is associated with a reduction in insulin sensitivity (S I ), but no longitudinal studies have examined this change in detail. This study is a longitudinal study in 60 children (33 male and 27 female subjects; 32 Caucasian and 28 African-American) ..."
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Previous cross-sectional studies show that puberty is associated with a reduction in insulin sensitivity (S I ), but no longitudinal studies have examined this change in detail. This study is a longitudinal study in 60 children (33 male and 27 female subjects; 32 Caucasian and 28 African
ALSPAC The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and
, 1991
"... activity during pregnancy in a prospective cohort of British women: results from the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children ..."
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activity during pregnancy in a prospective cohort of British women: results from the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children
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