Heart disease risk factors prevalent among U.S. teens
Cardiovascular risk factors are becoming more prevalent in U.S. adolescents due to increases in diabetes and prediabetes associated with overweight and obesity, NHANES data suggest.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Teens misuse pain pills early
Most teenagers who experiment with prescription opioids do so before their senior year in high school.
USPSTF recommends skin cancer prevention counseling for kids
Counseling moderately increases the use of sun-protective behaviors in 10- to 24-year-old patients who are at high risk for skin cancer.
Computer-based screening may reduce teen substance abuse
Primary care health-care providers need more effective strategies for substance use screening in adolescents.
Don’t let patients tan their lives away
Teen girls will come up with 100 reasons to use tanning beds. We as health-care providers need to give parents one really big reason to say no.
Drug-testing a teenager without permission
Advice for dealing with parent requests to drug test their teen without the child’s knowledge or consent.
Do teens plan ‘accidental’ pregnancies?
Some adolescent girls romanticize parenthood, viewing it as a way to improve their lives and relationships.
Teen alcohol consumption may increase breast cancer risk
Drinking just one alcoholic beverage a day during adolescence was associated with higher incidence of benign breast disease, a risk factor for breast cancer, in adulthood.
Waistline may help predict cardiovascular risk in teens
Increased weight-to-height ratio was associated with worse lipid profiles and hypertension in adolescents.
Teen binge drinking linked to alcohol use in movies
Teens who watch movies that depict alcohol consumption are more likely to binge drink than those who do not, study findings from six European nations suggest.
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