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 over …

OBJECTIVE: We assessed the prevalence, socioeconomic distribution and clustering of five
major chronic disease behavioral risk factors (physical inactivity, sedentary behavior, …

Purpose The association of asthma and overweight in youth is well studied. However, the
temporal relationship between asthma and overweight, the strength of their association, and …

Little attention has been given to differences in obesity risk factors by racial/ethnic groups.
Using data from the 2011-2012 California Health Interview Survey, we examined differences …

Background Behavioral risk factors are known to co-occur among youth, and to increase
risks of chronic diseases morbidity and mortality later in life. However, little is known about …

Background Community pharmacists are a key intervention point in efforts to prevent and
mitigate the impact of prescription drug abuse and misuse (PDA/M); yet pharmacists' …

Health literacy has become an important public health concern. Multistage cluster random
sampling was used to select 12 450 individuals. Using the 2009 Chinese Health Literacy …

Sleep problems have been defined using a variety of definitions. No study has assessed the
longitudinal association between infant sleep problems and childhood overweight or …

A scoping review was conducted to identify the available evidence about frailty among older
Hispanics living in the US using the Integral Model of Frailty. A not time-limited search was …

The authors assessed individual, social, and school correlates of multiple chronic disease
behavioral risk factors (physical inactivity, sedentary behavior, tobacco smoking, alcohol …