Prevalence of behavioral risk factors among Ukrainians during war amid existing stress factors by Olena Kolesnikova, Olena Vysotska, Anastasiia Radchenko, Olga Zaprovalna, Nataliya Emelyanova

“…Therefore, the objective of our study was to assess the prevalence of behavioral risk factors (BRFs) among Ukrainians, taking into account the presence of potential stress factors. …”
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Hypertension among Mississippi Workers by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Occupation, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System by Vincent L. Mendy, Rodolfo Vargas, Oluwabunmi Ogungbe, Lei Zhang

“…We analyzed combined 2013, 2015, and 2017 data from the Mississippi Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 6,965 workers in ten Standard Occupational Classification System major groups. …”
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A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ASSESSING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERIODONTAL DISEASE AND SOCIO-BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTORS by Oana Chipirliu, Marian Viorel Crăciun, Mădălina Nicoleta Matei

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Characterization of Cannabis usage in individuals with non-cancer chronic pain in the state of Maine using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) by Rachel Bordonaro, Elizabeth N. Bean, Ling Cao

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Study on the prediction model of non-suicidal self-injury behavior risk during hospitalization for adolescent inpatients with depression based on medical data by Yanyan Zhang, Huirong Guo, Yali Wang, Junru Wang, Yuming Ren

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Uncontrolled Hypertension and Behavioral Risk Factors among Adult Hypertensive Patients at Saint Paul’s Hospital, Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yemisirach Sisay, Hana Abera, Tolesa Diriba Biratu, Tesfaye Girma Legesse

“…The goal of the current study was to investigate behavioral risk factors for uncontrolled hypertension among adult hypertensive patients in Ethiopia. …”
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Social support, parenting style and mental health of children and adolescents by Sandra Midori Sakuramoto, Carolina Elisabeth Squassoni, Thelma Simões Matsukura

Subjects: “…mental health. child behavior. risk factors. child development. social support.…”
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PREVENTION OF ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES AS THE BASIS OF INTERACTION OF ONCOLOGICAL SERVICE WITH PRIMARY LINK OF HEALTH CARE by L. M. Aleksandrova, V. V. Starinsky, A. D. Kaprin, Yu. V. Samsonov

“…Today, prevention is regarded as active method of strengthening and preservation of health, and the currently existing approaches in promoting healthy life mostly only directed at the prevention of behavioral risk factors: tobacco use, poor diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms in Exercise-Induced Cardioprotection by Saeid Golbidi, Ismail Laher

“…Physical inactivity is increasingly recognized as modifiable behavioral risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. A partial list of proposed mechanisms for exercise-induced cardioprotection include induction of heat shock proteins, increase in cardiac antioxidant capacity, expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress proteins, anatomical and physiological changes in the coronary arteries, changes in nitric oxide production, adaptational changes in cardiac mitochondria, increased autophagy, and improved function of sarcolemmal and/or mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channels. …”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…Data from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were used in this study. …”
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Detection of Non-Communicable Disease Risk Using Android-Based Application (Design of DERI PTM Application) by Feranita Utama, Windi Indah Fajar Ningsih, Widya Lionita

“…This study aimed to design a health application that the community can use for early detection of NCD risk factors, especially modifiable behavioral risk factors and metabolic risk factors. The application design method used the prototype method. …”
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Smoke-free hospitality environments and cognitive health: A population-based study in the United States by Lucie Kalousová

“…Methods: I use the repeated cross-sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance data collected between 2017 and 2022 from a sample of Americans 45 years and older and estimate logistic regression models predicting self-rated cognitive function decline by calculated smoke-free hospitality coverage in restaurants and bars. …”
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Factors influencing implementation of health-promoting interventions at workplaces: Protocol for a scoping review. by Kaung Suu Lwin, Aliza K C Bhandari, Phuong The Nguyen, Junko Saito, Akiko Yaguchi-Saito, Erika Ota, Taichi Shimazu

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Health-promoting interventions at workplaces can be effective in modifying lifestyle-related behavioral risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). …”
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Unveiling the Silent Threat: Exploring Hypertension Prevalence and Risk Factors Among University Students in Syria by Shuaib Alahmad, Abudlla Samman, Rawaa Al Kayali, Rawaa Al Kayali

“…This study aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and elevated blood pressure among university students and to identify the associated sociodemographic characteristics, and behavioral risk factors.MethodsThis study was designed as a cross-sectional investigation with 1,100 subjects randomly selected from the students of Aleppo and Al-Wataniya universities. …”
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Analyzing Geospatial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening Among Populations in the United States: Machine Learning Approach by Soheil Hashtarkhani, Yiwang Zhou, Fekede Asefa Kumsa, Shelley White-Means, David L Schwartz, Arash Shaban-Nejad

“…MethodsData on mammography screening at the census tract level for 2018 and 2020 were collected from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We developed a large-scale dataset of social determinants of health, comprising 13 variables for 72,337 census tracts. …”
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Diet, Screen Time, Physical Activity, and Childhood Overweight in the General Population and in High Risk Subgroups: Prospective Analyses in the PIAMA Birth Cohort by Alet H. Wijga, Salome Scholtens, Wanda J. E. Bemelmans, Marjan Kerkhof, Gerard H. Koppelman, Bert Brunekreef, Henriette A. Smit

“…To prospectively identify behavioral risk factors for childhood overweight and to assess their relevance in high risk sub groups (children of mothers with overweight or low education). …”
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E-cigarettes are not associated with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome among US adults by Shahryar Rajai Firouzabadi, Ida Mohammadi, Mohammadreza Alinejadfard, Arman Shafiee

“…While traditional smoking is associated with a higher risk of PCS, the role of e-cigarettes remains unclear due to conflicting evidence. Using 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, this study investigated the association between e-cigarette use and PCS among US adults who tested positive for COVID-19. …”
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Parental divorce's long shadow: Elevated stroke risk among older Americans. by Mary Kate Schilke, Philip Baiden, Esme Fuller-Thomson

“…This study utilized population-based data from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. An analytic sample of 13,205 adults aged 65 and above (56.6% female) who have never experienced childhood physical nor sexual abuse were analyzed using binary logistic regression. …”
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The Role of Big Data Analytics in Revolutionizing Diabetes Management and Healthcare Decision-Making by Muhammad Nauman, Ahmad S. Almadhor, Mohammed Albekairi, Ali R. Ansari, Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz, Raheel Nawaz

“…The CDC&#x2019;s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) was used to empirically demonstrate the advantages of integrating BDA with ML for medical decision-making in Big Data environments. …”
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How Did the COVID‐19 Pandemic Change Cigarette Smoking Behavior? by Jason Semprini

“…Methods Following a preregistered plan, we accessed population‐based data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2010–2023) to analyze three primary outcomes: (1) currently smoking, (2) number of cigarettes per day, and (3) quit smoking in the past year. …”
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