The majority of US youth are of healthy weight, but the majority of US adults are overweight
or obese. Therefore, a major health challenge for most American children and adolescents …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in women. In fact, CVD is
responsible for a third of all deaths of women worldwide and half of all deaths of women …

Background: Many placebo-controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of individual
pharmacotherapies approved for smoking cessation. However, few direct or indirect …

Background Control of blood pressure (BP) remains a major challenge in primary care.
Innovative interventions to improve BP control are therefore needed. By updating and …

Background Pharmacists may improve the clinical management of major risk factors for
cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. A systematic review was conducted to determine …

Background: Cystatin C (CysC) may be a better marker of glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
than serum creatinine (SCr) level. Few studies derived CysC-based GFR prediction …

Objective: Obesity prevention in childhood is important. However, changing children's
lifestyle behaviors to reduce overweight is a substantial challenge. Accurately perceiving …

OBJECTIVES: The goals were (1) to describe rates of diabetes mellitus (DM)-related
hospitalizations and retinopathy screening before and after transition to adult care and (2) to …

BACKGROUND: Although many sociodemographic and psychosocial factors have been
identified as related to adolescent smoking, few studies have examined the role of nicotine …

PURPOSE: Little is known about how seasonal variation in physical activity relates to
declining physical activity in adolescence. We quantified how each of daily weather …