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View more >Neighborhood socioeconomic context and long-term survival after myocardial infarction
In addition to assessing individual socioeconomic status (SES), this study documents the influence of neighborhood SES on survival after a myocardial infarction (MI). As expected, the influence on survival by neighborhood SES is as strong as or stronger than individual SES...
Childhood obesity, other cardiovascular risk factors, and premature death
This study shows that among a group of American Indian youths, obesity was associated with a rate of death in young adulthood and middle age that was about twice that of individuals without diabetes...
Consumption of fruit and vegetables among elderly people: a cross sectional study from Iran
Studies show that low consumption of fruit and vegetables is a risk factor for coronary heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. In Iran, chronic diseases are the primary cause of death and morbidity...
Associations of advertisement-promotion-sponsorship-related factors with current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Zambia
Children's exposure to tobacco advertising continues unabated in Zambia. A recent study confirmed a close association between advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of tobacco on television and cigarette smoking among adolescents in that country...
Earthquake on the Haitian border
Rhonda Martin, a Boston-based nurse, was providing volunteer health services in poor, rural in the Domincan Republic villages when she experienced the earthquake the earthquake that devastated nearby Haiti...
