Prevalence of alcohol and drug consumption and knowledge of drug/alcohol-related sexual assaults among Italian adolescents by Antonio Villa, Alessia Fazio, Anna Esposito

“…Two hundred and fourty-nine boys and 263 girls aged 15 to 21 years old (M = 16.2, SD = 2.1) answered a specially structured anonymous questionnaire. …”
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Applying the photovoice method with adolescents in mining areas in rural Mozambique: critical reflections and lessons learned by Olga Cambaco, Hermínio Cossa, Andrea Farnham, Eusébio Macete, Mirko S. Winkler, Karin Gross, Khátia Munguambe

“…Photovoice was successfully integrated into eight focus group discussions with adolescent girls and boys aged 15 to 17 years. Several lessons for guiding future research were learned. …”
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Clinical Epidemiological Characteristics and Risk Factors for Severe Bronchiolitis Caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Vietnamese Children by Sang Ngoc Nguyen, Thuy Ngoc Thi Nguyen, Lam Tung Vu, Thap Duc Nguyen

“…Results. 377 children were evaluated, including 261 boys and 116 girls; children under 6 months accounted for the highest proportion (57%), and 47 (12.5%) of all patients had severe disease. …”
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The Association of Adipokines and Myokines in the Blood of Obese Children and Adolescents with Lipoprotein Lipase rs328 Gene Variants by Alexander V. Shestopalov, Vadim V. Davydov, Genrik T. Tumanyan, Elena D. Teplyakova, Tatiana P. Shkurat, Elena V. Mashkina, Mikhail A. Shkurat, Andrey M. Gaponov, Anastasia A. Sadova, Olga V. Borisenko, Sergey A. Roumiantsev

“…The shifts in hormones, adipokines, and myokines manifest mostly in the obese individuals with Ser447Ser genotype rather than with 447Ter genotype. Obese boys homozygous for Ser447Ser have more elevated leptin levels than girls. …”
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Prevalence of dyslipidaemia and transaminitis in obese 8 to 18-year-old in Eastern India by Ghose N, Sur K, Sahana D

“…Age and gender-appropriate cutoffs were used for analysis. Results: 59.7% were boys and 40.3% were girls. Dyslipidaemia was prevalent in 66.13%. …”
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Emotional Intervention and Education System Construction for Rural Children Based on Semantic Analysis by Xiaobo Zhang

“…The gender main effect of negative emotion was significant, and the negative emotion level of girls was significantly higher than that of boys. The main effect of the left-behind category of adversity beliefs was significant, and the adversity belief levels of children whose parents went out to rural areas were significantly lower than those of children whose fathers went out and non-left-behind children. …”
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Effect of hypnotherapy on paediatric cancer pain management in Indonesia: A quasi-experimental study by Sri Hartini M.A, Nafisatun Nisa, Satriya Pranata, Mudy Oktiningrum, Sri Puguh Kristiawati

“…Pain scores were compared using ANCOVA, but pain categories were compared using the chi-square test.Results: The mean age of the subjects was 8.8 (standard deviation, 4.2) years; 60% were boys. Hypnotherapy significantly reduced pain scores from a baseline mean score of 4.7 to 0.7 at the second assessment (P<0.001). …”
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Comparison of outcomes of Salter and Varus osteotomies in the treatment of Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease: a retrospective cohort study by Peyman Mirghaderi, Mohammad-Taha Pahlevan-Fallahy, Saeed kargar-soleimanabad, Danial Sharifi Razavi, Alireza Moharrami, Taghi Baghdadi, Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi

“…LCPD is usually present in children between 2 and 15 years and happens more frequently in boys more than girls; this study aims to compare the outcome of two surgical methods in treating LCPD. …”
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To Evaluate the Relationship between Overweight/Obesity Status, Sugar Consumption, and Dental Caries among 12–15-year-old School Children of Moradabad City by Supurna Pandit, Pradeep Tangade, Jeevan Josh, Sanchit Pradhan, Mohnish Muchhal, Aditya Veer Singh

“…Results: Examination of 600 school-going kids was done. It was found that boys were more likely to have caries as compared to girls (Odds ratio [OR] =1.92, confidence interval [CI] =1.15–3.45). …”
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The incidence of eating disorders in the UK in 2000–2009: findings from the General Practice Research Database by Irene Petersen, Nadia Micali, Janet L Treasure, Katrina W Hagberg

“…The incidence of the diagnosed ED was highest for girls aged 15–19 and for boys aged 10–14.Conclusions The age-standardised incidence of ED increased in primary care between 2000 and 2009. …”
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Logistic regression in predicting bullying based on the components of emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence. by Saeed Fakharyzade Najafabadi, Ali Mohammad Rezaei, Mohammad Ali Mohammadyfar, ,Siavash Talepasand

“…A total of 447 students (225 girls and 222 boys) were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. …”
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Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) Enteric Fever in Children by Sana Ashraf, Mehtab Hussain, Asma Noreen, Falak Abro, Nadeem Noor, Ramla Rehman

“…Results: Out of a total of 122 children, 67 (54.9%) were boys. The mean age was 6.14±2.82 years. Blood culture for was found positive for Salmonella typhi in 82 (67.2%) children. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Symptoms of Helicobacter pylori Infection among Schoolchildren in Kassala State, East of Sudan by Mohammed Abbas, Faiza A. Sharif, Shamselfalah M. Osman, Abdallah M. Osman, Sulieman M. El Sanousi, Mamoun Magzoub, Mutasim E. Ibrahim

“…There were statistically significant differences in H. pylori seropositivity between boys and girls (p=0.003). Conclusions. The prevalence of H. pylori infection among schoolchildren in Kassala city has been documented. …”
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The Impact of Child Dental Caries and the Associated Factors on Child and Family Quality of Life by Marziyeh Shokravi, Fatemeh Khani-Varzgan, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Leila Erfanparast, Behjat Shokrvash

“…Results: Out of 756 children under 7 years old, 51.5% boys, mean (M) standard deviation (SD) of age 5.76 (0.78). …”
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Investıgatıon Of Respıratory Parameters, Hand-Eye Coordınatıons And Body Mass Indexes Of Superior İntelligence Students Between 8 And 9 Years by Faruk Akçınar, Mehmet Güllü, Serpil Akçınar, Cengiz Arslan

“…The research group consists of 73 students (37 girls and 36 boys). To determine students' intelligence levels as data collection tools Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Savaşır and Şahin, 1995) was applied, Mir Spirolab III brand spirometer is used for measurement of the functions, dart was performed for hand-eye coordination and weight and height measurements were taken for Body Mass Index (BMI). …”
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Evaluation of the Accuracy of Cameriere, Modified Cameriere and Willems and Blenkin-Evans Methods for Turkish Children by Tuğçe Nur Şahin, Melike Güleç

“…Results: The CA- estimated age (EA) difference was underestimated by 0.49, 0.45, and 0.20 years with MCM, WM, and BEM, respectively, and overestimated by 0.22 years with CM for girls; underestimated by 0.52, 0.43, and 0.12 years with MCM, WM, and BEM, respectively, and overestimated by 0.17 years with CM for boys (p < .005). Conclusion: If groups are evaluated separately, the closest results to CA for both sexes were obtained with CM. …”
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Indices of Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Test Performance in Middle-School Students by Ryan Burns, James C. Hannon, Timothy A. Brusseau, Barry Shultz, Patricia Eisenman

“…Participants included 134 students (65 boys and 69 girls) recruited from the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. …”
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Features of the development of coordination abilities in young schoolchildren by Dmytro Morozov, Iryna Kryventsova, Katarzyna Prusik

“…The study involved fourth-grade students (n=40), including 20 girls and 20 boys. All participants were divided into two groups: a control group (CG, n=20) and an experimental group (EG, n=20). …”
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Disparities in Tobacco use and cravings among sexual and gender minority adolescents in the United States by Sunday Azagba, Todd Ebling, Galappaththige S.R. de Silva

“…Nonbinary, genderfluid, or genderqueer users had higher odds of cravings compared to cisgender boys or men (aOR = 3.64, 95 % CI = 1.63–8.13). Similarly, SGM adolescents had higher odds of current tobacco use than their non-SGM peers. …”
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Adiponectin and Leptin Metabolic Biomarkers in Chinese Children and Adolescents by Jie Mi, Mercedes Nancy Munkonda, Ming Li, Mei-Xian Zhang, Xiao-Yuan Zhao, Ponce Cedric Wamba Fouejeu, Katherine Cianflone

“…Serum leptin, adiponectin, leptin:adiponectin ratio, lipids, glucose, and insulin concentrations as well as body size parameters and pubertal development were evaluated in a large population of Chinese children/adolescents (n=3505, 6–18 years, 1722 girls and 1783 boys). Results. Leptin concentration increased while adiponectin decreased with obesity, both were influenced by pubertal development. …”
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