Developmental inequity and the impact of pesticide exposure on gut and brain health in developing nations – a Brazilian perspective by Jessica Gama, Bianca Cruz Neves, Antonio Pereira

“…The effects of pesticides on developmental trajectory are particularly concerning during vulnerable periods of heightened cortical neuroplasticity over prenatal, infancy, and adolescent stages. This article also explores the unequal regulatory landscape for pesticides, emphasizing the disparities between more-regulated and less-regulated regions. …”
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Clinical Effectiveness of Pit and Fissure Sealants Using Solvents for Improving Surface Wettability of Enamel: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Anshula N Deshpande, Pooja V Bane, Simron Baishya, Yash Shah, Sneha Dori

“…Subjects and Methods: Children and adolescents with clinically healthy occlusal surfaces or noncavitated occlusal carious lesions on permanent first and/or second molars in all four quadrants were randomly allocated into four groups. …”
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Safety of Occlutech Septal Occluder ACCELL Flex II for Transcatheter Closure of Secundum Atrial Septal Defects in Children: A Long-Term Follow-Up by Amal M. El-Sisi, Sonia A. El-Saiedi, Rasha Ammar, Asmaa Abdelhameed, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Mohammed M. Soliman

“…This study confirmed the transcatheter closure (TCC) of secundum ASDs using the Occlutech® ACCELL® Flex II device to be safe and effective with no complications detected in children and adolescents.…”
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Association between social support and leisure-time physical activity among high school students by Luiza Isnardi Cardoso Ricardo, Airton Rombaldi, Jorje Otte, Ana Perez, Mario Azevedo

“…It was concluded that social support from parents and friends is an important tool in order to promote physical activity in adolescents. …”
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Prevalence of Sleep-related Breathing Disorders in Children from 6 to 11 Years Old by Alexander Torres Molina

“…Nevertheless, it affects approximately from 2 to 13% of children and adolescents ranging from simple snoring child to those with clinical manifestations of obstructive sleep apnea. …”
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Identification of Atherovulnarable Families in Doctor’s Office at the Primary Health Care Level by Francisco Felipe Hernández Gárciga, Maybi Gómez Sobrino, José Fernández–Britto Rodríguez

“…The presence of early or subclinical signs of atherosclerosis in children, adolescents and youngsters under 34 years old; other factor were explored as High blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, tobbaccoism, overweightness, obesity and sedentarism. …”
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Prevalence of Esophageal Eosinophilia, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, and Lymphocytic Gastritis in Children with Celiac Disease: A Saudi Tertiary Center Experience by Meshari A. Alaifan, Ammar Khayat, Rana Y. Bokhary, Abdulhameed Ibrahim, Yagoub Bin-Taleb, Bakr H. Alhussaini, Omar I. Saadah

“…To evaluate the prevalence of EoE and LG in children and adolescents with CD. Methods. This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of all pediatric patients (aged 0–18 years) with CD following up at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, between January, 2014, and December, 2021. …”
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Testing the psychometric properties of the risk-rescue rating scale: a lethality measure for suicide attempts by Tormod Stangeland, Ketil Hanssen-Bauer, Johan Siqveland

“…We adapted the RRRS for contemporary use in a Norwegian acute adolescent mental health service clinic. We developed a training program for clinicians, a user manual, and a series of five video-based role-played interview cases for reliability testing. …”
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Analysis of Children’s Traffic Behaviour at Signalized Crosswalks as a Precondition for Safe Children Routes Design: A Case Study from Croatia by Aleksandra Deluka-Tibljaš, Sanja Šurdonja, Irena Ištoka Otković

“…Design should ensure and enhance their traffic safety because for decades, traffic accidents have been among the first few causes of children and adolescent mortality. Pedestrian speed is one of the important inputs when pedestrian infrastructure, especially crosswalks, is designed. …”
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Human Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of ARDS in Rat by Zurab Kakabadze, Nicholas Kipshidze, Teona Paresishvili, Nodar Kipshidze, Zurab Vadachkoria, David Chakhunashvili

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Dysmenorrhea: Predisposing Factors, Effects on Activities and Health-seeking Behavior among University Students in Ibadan, Nigeria by Ayodeji Adeyemo, Oluwasomidoyin O. Bello

“… Background: Dysmenorrhea, a common gynecologic complaint among adolescent and young women is of public health importance because of its impact on their regular activities. …”
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Moral, competence, and status values in youth sports: predictors of attitude to moral decision-making by Syarifatunnisa Syarifatunnisa, Amung Ma'mun, Anira Anira, Nuryadi Nuryadi, Tite Juliantine

“…Objective: This study aimed to investigate the influence of moral, competence, and status values on moral decision-making among Indonesian adolescent athletes, focusing on acceptance of cheating, acceptance of gamesmanship, and maintaining proportionality in winning. …”
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On Zero-Inflated Hierarchical Poisson Models with Application to Maternal Mortality Data by Kassim Tawiah, Samuel Iddi, Anani Lotsi

“…Furthermore, a well-structured awareness campaign is needed with importance given to avoiding adolescent pregnancy and improving antenatal care attendance to, at least, four, the gold standard, before delivery. …”
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Patient and public involvement in neonatal research – experiences and insights from parents and researchers by Michella Bjerregaard, Ingrid Poulsen, Emma Carlsen, Antonio Esparza, Joanna Smith, Anne Brødsgaard

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Effectiveness of Different Algorithms and Cut-off Value in Preeclampsia First Trimester Screening by Piotr Tousty, Bartosz Czuba, Dariusz Borowski, Magda Fraszczyk-Tousty, Sylwia Dzidek, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Aneta Cymbaluk-Płoska, Andrzej Torbé, Sebastian Kwiatkowski

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Technical and management coaching for government institutions: Lessons learned and health systems transformations across 8 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and India. by Kate Graham, Anna Kalbarczyk, Lekan Ajijola, Emily Das, Fatimata Sow, Kenneth Owino, Maheen Malik

“…The Challenge Initiative (TCI) uses a phased coaching model-lead, assist, observe, and monitor-to build local government capacity for scaling family planning (FP) and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) programs. …”
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Skok pokwitaniowy i budowa ciała dziewcząt z Meridy (Jukatan, Meksyk) jako sposób przystosowania do warunków życia by Anna Zielińska

“…Maya girls have relatively longer upper extremities to lower ones, greater biacromial breadth, and chest circumference to stature than Creoles, which shows their more stocky body build. The adolescent (pubertal) spurt in height starts earlier in Creoles (9-10 years) and its rate is greater (max. = 7.48 cm/ year) than in Maya and Mestizos girls (10-11 years; max. = 6.25 cm/year). …”
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Role of Physical activity in abating Non-Communicable Diseases: A survey of residents of Central Park Housing Society, Lahore by Shehnaz Khan, Mehrunisa Hassan, Mamoona Shafique, Saira Farhat, Saba Iftkhar, Shamim Akhter

“…Structured tool used in this study was applicable on age group between 15-69 years, therefore we included participants aged between 15-69 years in this study. While children, adolescences having age between 10-14 years, adults > 69 years old, pregnant women and those with existing non- communicable diseases were excluded from the study. …”
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Drug Abuse Prevention Among Students In Improving The Lives Meaning Through Counseling Logo by Kadek Suranata

“…On the other hand, the number of victims of drug abuse among adolescents from year-to-year increase. spiritual intelligence (SQ) is low is one of the students to be drug users. …”
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GRAMMAR-Lambda Delivers Efficient Understanding of the Genetic Basis for Head Size in Catfish by Yunfeng Zhao, Jin Gao, Hong Feng, Li Jiang

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