Sentences with phrase «risks of adolescence»

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«During early adolescence, the majority of girls stop raising their hands, participating in sports and extra-curricular activities, taking risks, and stepping into leadership roles,» says Catherine Connors, the company's co-founder and chief content officer.

In order to give comfort to that one out of one hundred who may ultimately choose a homosexual lifestyle, they are willing to put at risk the other ninety - nine by encouraging them to experiment in their formative stages of adolescence.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.

Over a 35 - year period, the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaption (MLSRA) revealed that the quality of the early attachment reverberated well into later childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, even when temperament and social class were accounted for.

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

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Children who don't sleep enough may be at increased risk of being overweight and having emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescence and adulthood, for example.

Hormonal changes and brain development during adolescence may put teens at a higher risk of mental health problems.

There is evidence (Rudel, Fenton, Ackerman, Euling, & Makris, 2011) to support a theory that a woman's exposure to high levels of certain environmental contaminants, namely dioxin and other endocrine disruptors, before she is born can put her at risk of insufficient breast growth during adolescence and pregnancy.

Kids are at greatest risk during infancy and adolescence, when their diet may not meet the increased iron demands of their rapidly growing bodies.

Kids are at greatest risk of iron deficiency during infancy and adolescence, when their diet may not meet the...

«Adolescence is a critical risk period for initiation of alcohol use, and earlier onset of drinking is associated with greater risk of developing alcohol abuse and dependence,» said Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.

Also, the findings could help improve the tools available for early detection of risk for schizophrenia and psychosis, which are typically not diagnosed until late adolescence.

If clinicians could use brain scans to identify vulnerable high - risk individuals in early adolescence when the brain is still developing, it may be possible to curb the development of the disorder and help prevent its most debilitating effects.

But there was no link between intake of fruit juice in either adolescence or early adulthood and risk.

In particular, greater consumption of apple, banana and grapes during adolescence, as well as oranges and kale during early adulthood was significantly associated with a reduced breast cancer risk.

Those who were overweight in adolescence (age 16 - 19) had a 1.5-fold increased risk of developing colon cancer by age 48.

Children who suffer from frequent nightmares or bouts of night terrors may be at an increased risk of psychotic experiences in adolescence, according to new research from the University of Warwick.

In the first large population - based, long - term investigation of the association between preterm birth and later retinal detachment, the research determined that birth before 32 weeks is associated with increased risks of retinal detachment in childhood, adolescence and young adult life.

University of Texas at Arlington researchers have found that low attention control in early adolescence is related to a genetic risk factor for four different anxiety disorders.

However, preadolescents with depressive symptoms are at increased risk of experiencing MDD in adolescence.

Whether you are child in Baltimore, Beijing, Nairobi or New Delhi, the onset of adolescence triggers a surprisingly common set of rigidly enforced gender expectations that are linked to increased lifelong risks of everything from HIV and depression to violence and suicide.

The researchers urge the education community to consider the role of afterschool classrooms and instructors in promoting supportive interactions and advancing academic outcomes for at - risk youth during this important transition to adolescence.

In recent years, brain specialists have refined their ability to anticipate who's at highest risk of psychosis — a defining feature of schizophrenia — identifying subtle signs in some children and more vivid precursors in late adolescence.

«From a risk and prevention perspective, difficulty forming close relationships early in adolescence may now be considered a marker of risk for long - term health difficulties,» Allen explains.

Previous research has shown that adolescents who drink alone consume more alcohol and drink more frequently than their social - drinking peers, and that heavier alcohol use in adolescence is associated with a greater risk of developing alcohol problems in adulthood.

«Exercise during adolescence linked to lowered risk of death later.»

«Given the solid epidemiologic evidence supporting a link between cannabis exposure during adolescence and schizophrenia, we investigated whether the use of cannabis during early adolescence (by 16 years of age) is associated with variations in brain maturation as a function of genetic risk for schizophrenia,» said senior author Tomas Paus, MD, PhD, the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Professor and Chair in Population Neuroscience at Baycrest, University of Toronto, and the Dr. John and Consuela Phelan Scholar at Child Mind Institute, New York.

«Risk of COPD may already occur in adolescence.»

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

«Those children were at greater risk of debilitating depressive / dysthymic symptoms or anxiety and of suicidality in adolescence than less severely victimized children, even after we accounted for a plethora of confounders assessed throughout childhood.»

Adolescence is the key period for bone development, and poor development at this stage is linked to reduced peak bone mass (the amount of bone mass at the end of the skeletal maturation, around age 30), increased fracture risk and osteoporosis later in life.

During that time frame, study subjects will pass through the high - risk period of adolescence.

The neurodevelopmental and social backdrop of early adolescence may promote risk - taking behavior, 25 and neural plasticity may sensitize the adolescent brain to the effects of nicotine.31 Hence, adolescent never smokers exposed to nicotine - rich e-cigarette aerosols and the pleasant sensations associated with vaping could be more liable to experiment with other nicotine - containing products, including combustible tobacco.

«There is now consistent evidence that heavy cannabis use, particularly during adolescence, can increase the risk of paranoid psychosis, which is typically seen in schizophrenia, a potentially devastating mental illness.

The researchers, chiefly from the Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, found that a person's risk of schizophrenia is dramatically increased if they inherit variants of a gene important to «synaptic pruning» — the healthy reduction during adolescence of brain cell connections that are no longer needed.

These Danish researchers followed 207 high - risk subjects (children of mothers with schizophrenia) and 104 low - risk subjects (children of parents with no psychiatric illness) from adolescence into adulthood.

Dr. Malaspina continued «I think three of the interesting factors that have been linked to the risk of schizophrenia are severe stress in a stress - sensitive person who has underlying genes for schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury in those with underlying genes for schizophrenia, and, very importantly, cannabis exposure in early adolescence.»

The presence proteinuria in adolescence was associated with a seven-fold increase in the risk of ESRD.

The risk is even greater during periods of growth such as infancy, pregnancy, childhood, adolescence and when undergoing a muscle - strengthening program.

Adopting a healthful diet in adolescence may lower risk of developing metabolic complications associated with PCOS.

From these studies, it is increasingly clear that cholesterol concentrations can be elevated during childhood and adolescence and that increased concentrations in childhood are associated with increased risk of atherosclerosis and CVD in adulthood.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio

Women who had the most fiber intake during adolescence have a 25 % lower risk of this potentially precancerous breast disease.

«The intake of fiber and nuts during adolescence and incidence of proliferative benign breast disease» — such as fibrocystic breast disease; fibroadenomas; noncancerous breast lumps — but, is considered a marker for increased breast cancer risk.

Eating fiber - containing foods — especially nuts — during adolescence may significantly lower the risk of developing potentially precancerous fibrocystic breast disease (fibroadenomas).

The main trigger is sunburn, with just one incidence in childhood or adolescence tripling the risk of developing melanoma.

There's always been a lot of focus on adolescence because it's a time of risk, when young people take risks and they get in trouble with the law, and they compromise their health in various ways — so there's also been a bit of a focus on adolescence in one way or the other.