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Nutritional and genetic determinants of the one-carbon metabolism pathway have been related to risk of malignant lymphomas, but little is known about their associations with Hodgkin lymphoma risk specifically. The authors examined nutrient intake (folate, vitamin B(2), vitamin B(6), vitamin B(12), me...
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PMID: 21810727
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These results suggest that regular consumption of milk-based probiotics could be associated with lower risk of preeclampsia in primiparous women....
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PMID: 21821542
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Adverse socioeconomic conditions, at both the individual and the neighborhood level, increase the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) death, but little is known regarding whether CRC survival varies geographically and the extent to which area-level socioeconomic deprivation affects this geographic variat...
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PMID: 21836166
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Sleep-related problems, which have been associated with poor health outcomes, have not been investigated thoroughly in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We examined the prevalence of a variety of sleep-related problems in persons with and without CKD.
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PMID: 21816524
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The nature of fear of flying (FOF) is not well understood. It is commonly assumed to be a fear learned from flight-specific experiences. However, existing literature suggests that FOF is a manifestation of fears of other stimuli (e.g., heights) embedded in the flying situation, but n...
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PMID: 21961401
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The authors assessed changes in the health status of US 1991 Gulf War-era veterans from a 1995 baseline survey to a 2005 follow-up survey, using repeated measurement data from 5,469 deployed Gulf War veterans and 3,353 nondeployed Gulf War-era veterans who participated in both survey...
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PMID: 21795757
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We have investigated attitudes towards abortion and the right to conscientious objection among medical students early and late in their studies at the four medical schools. Student satisfaction with the teaching on abortion was also surveyed....
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PMID: 21946594
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There have been very few studies on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Sri Lanka. This study was undertaken to determine the clinical presentation and whether a western style diet or infection with geo-helminths were associated with the condition.
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PMID: 21922853
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The authors prospectively examined the association between the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet score, overall, animal-based, and vegetable-based low-carbohydrate-diet scores, and major plant food groups and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in 86,621 women in the Nurses' Health St...
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PMID: 21832271
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Prospective studies on the role of psychosocial factors in heart failure development are virtually nonexistent. The authors aimed to address the effect of psychosocial factors on the risk of heart failure hospitalization in men and women free of cardiovascular disease. In 1991-1993, the 8,670 partici...
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PMID: 21821541
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Self-rated health is generally accepted by researchers as a valid measure of health status. The aims of the study were to investigate how the adult inhabitants of northern Kosovska Mitrovica described their health and which variables were the predictors of self-rated health status among that populati...
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PMID: 21905594
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A program providing free immunization against human papillomavirus (HPV) was launched in the province of Quebec in 2008. A survey was conducted to describe the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of young women in Quebec regarding HPV infections.
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PMID: 21913589
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We measured 25OHD concentrations in a multi-ethnic group of pregnant women living in Vancouver (49 degrees N) and explored the determinants of 25OHD....
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PMID: 21913590
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Participation in physical activity (PA) and healthy nutrition are important factors that affects muscle and bone strength and the resultant functioning in the activities of daily living (ADL) skills including the overall quality of life (QoL) of geriatric individuals. However, the relationships betwe...
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PMID: 21913535
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About one-third of all work-related injuries happen to the hands, with enormous consequences ranging from deformities to mortalities. Characterizing injuries and their trends will allow safety managers to concentrate their resources on areas of safety that will be most effective in the sawmill workpl...
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PMID: 21913544
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Infant malnutrition is a public health problem in developing countries.
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PMID: 21913545
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The availability of information on the individual perception of own's dental appearance and desire to uptake orthodontic treatment is of importance in the planning of orthodontic care within a population.
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PMID: 21913541
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Juvenile delinquency is the involvement of a child younger than 18 years in behavior that violates the law. Its cost in terms of human potential, public safety and tax expenditures can be very high. Research that assesses how and why children become delinquent is a sound investment, because it can pr...
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PMID: 21913542
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Our findings suggest that bird movements are not likely to transmit disease from backyard to commercial flocks; however, human movements between backyard and commercial premises could transmit diseases. Within the backyard-flock sector, the majority of small flocks appear to pose little risk of dise...
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PMID: 22017030
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Refugees in the United States have higher rates of some chronic diseases than US-born residents or other first-generation immigrants. This may be partially a result of dietary practices in the United States. There is limited information about which factors are related to dietary practices in refugee...
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PMID: 21872700
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Sumiya S Ishigami,
Shoji S Natsugoe,
Shuichi S Hokita,
Teruaki T Aoki,
Hideyuki H Kashiwagi,
Kosei K Hirakawa,
Tetsuji T Sawada,
Yoshitaka Y Yamamura,
Seiji S Itoh,
Koichi K Hirata,
Keiichiro K Ohta,
Kenichi K Mafune,
Yasushi Y Nakane,
Tatsuo T Kanda,
Hiroshi H Furukawa,
Iwao I Sasaki,
Tetsuro T Kubota,
Masaki M Kitajima and
Takashi T Aikou
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We could not identify any clinical difference between INT and RY after total gastrectomy 60 months after surgery. The safer and simpler RY method may be a more suitable reconstruction method than INT after total gastrectomy.
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PMID: 21871978
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Quality-assured worldwide surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is crucial for public health purposes. In the countries of the eastern part of the WHO European region the knowledge regarding gonococcal AMR is limited, and antimicrobials of many different types, sourc...
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PMID: 21851423
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Baseline patient-reported kidney cancer symptoms are linked to mPFS and mOS in a clear and interpretable way. These results support the evaluation of patient-reported symptoms at baseline in clinical trials and in clinical practice to measure symptom severity and potentially predict progression-free...
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PMID: 21476015
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We created and validated a brief questionnaire version of the Diabetes Self-Management Profile called the Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire....
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PMID: 21843307
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We conducted this study to examine the reproductive health status and depression levels of women who live in sanctuary houses after being subjected to domestic violence. The total number of women in the study is 65. Data were collected via descriptive, violence, and women's reproductive health proble...
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PMID: 21834719
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We investigates the primary care physicians' response to the victims of spousal violence in Pakistan. By drawing upon the data collected by in-depth interviews from 24 physicians from Lahore and Sialkot, in this research we documented their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior treating the victims of...
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PMID: 21834720
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We generated a conceptual model of coping. The urge to protect the unborn baby was the primary influence for participants' decisions about separating from or permanently leaving an abusive relationship. Implications include universal screening for IPV in child-bearing women, inquiry into maternal id...
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PMID: 21834721
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The respondents from the higher and lower PCMH scoring practices commented on similar aspects of readiness-motivation and capability-but offered very different views of them. Our findings suggest the importance of understanding practice perceptions of the motivations for PCMH and the capability to u...
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PMID: 21933274
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We compared symptoms, function, and QOL in SA and European Canadians with CAD using the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ).
Using the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcomes Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease, an outcomes registry that captures patients undergoing cardiac catheteri...
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PMID: 21884867
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This study examined the prevalence of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms at 2 years postpartum and the relationship between such symptoms and both self-reported parenting stress and perceptions of the mother-child relationship. 81 women completed measures of childbirth-related PT...
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PMID: 21824044
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The aim of the study was to describe how women with hirsutism experience their relationship with health care. Data were collected by tape-recorded individual interviews, which were analyzed by means of qualitative content analysis. The results showed that the relationship with health care, from the p...
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PMID: 21824045
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This study describes the prevalence of postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on the DSM-IV criteria, including its symptoms of intrusion, avoidance and hyperarousal after pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia, and examines which variables are associated with PTSD and its symptoms....
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PMID: 21824043
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T J TJ Ferman,
B F BF Boeve,
G E GE Smith,
S-C SC Lin,
M H MH Silber,
O O Pedraza,
Z Z Wszolek,
N R NR Graff-Radford,
R R Uitti,
J J Van Gerpen,
W W Pao,
D D Knopman,
V S VS Pankratz,
K K Kantarci,
B B Boot,
J E JE Parisi,
B N BN Dugger,
H H Fujishiro,
R C RC Petersen and
D W DW Dickson
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To determine whether adding REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) to the dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) diagnostic criteria improves classification accuracy of autopsy-confirmed DLB.
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PMID: 21849645
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Aim The aim of this review is to summarise issues surrounding the measurement of physical activity (PA) by self-report and accelerometry in youth (2-18 years old). Current levels and temporal trends in PA and sport participation and the effect of assessment method on data interpretation will be summa...
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PMID: 21836170
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Response rate was lower in 2007 (999 or 43.2%) than in 1990 (2.903 or 80.6%).The prevalence of attacks of asthma increased over time from 2.2% to 6.7% (p<0.0001), use of anti-asthmatic drugs increased from 2.4% to 7.2% (p<0.0001) and nasal allergy symptoms from 17.8% to 29.3% (p< 0.0001). There was...
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PMID: 21911911
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To define the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and fibromyalgia syndrome.
This is a prospective cohort study for description of a medical disorder. The study was carried out in Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from May 2...
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PMID: 21894355
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To determine the prevalence rate of depression and its relationship with patients' socio-demographic characteristics and chronic diseases.
This cross sectional study was performed at the Family Medicine Department, Sharurah Armed Forces Hospital (SAFH), Sharurah, King...
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PMID: 21894360
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Our study showed that subjects in the experimental group had low self-esteem (13%) before QOL training, and they had moderate self-esteem after the intervention (39%), however, the control group had moderate self-esteem (62.5%) in the pre-test, and changed to low self-esteem (12.9%) in the post-test...
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PMID: 21894361
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Objective. Female adults with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN) have been found to score higher than healthy controls on a questionnaire that measures characteristics associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This research investigated the relationship between eating disorder (ED) and ASD...
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PMID: 21810110
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We have restudied the same cohort to see if that workforce survey was a good predictor of outcome. Seventy (51%) of 138 surveys were completed in 2009 compared with 100 (80%) of 138 in the 2002 survey. Eighty percent of the 2002 respondents planned consultant positions in New Zealand. We found 64% o...
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PMID: 21970144
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We compared four different odorants (PEA, n-butanol, isoamyl butyrate, isobutanol) in an olfactory detection threshold task depending on subject population. Test odorants were applied to 73 healthy subjects. The experiment was divided into two sessions performed on two different days. The correlatio...
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PMID: 21858265
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Hepatitis belongs to a group of diseases caused by different hepatotropic viruses, which are responsible for inflamation of the liver. The most common form of liver infection is hepatitis B virus (HBV). It is transmitted by blood and other body fluids. The infection can also occur du...
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PMID: 21991844
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Influenza is one of the most common diseases in the world. It occurs seasonally and is a viral disease contracted by a direct contact (respiratory droplets), causing many serious complications. The best way to prevent influenza is to get vaccinated once a year, which is the cheapest...
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PMID: 21991845
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. The objective of this paper is to estimate the prevalence of examination malpractice among medical students; its import on medical education and future doctors.
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PMID: 21909149
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The purpose of this study was to develop an abbreviated reliable tool for assessing the attitudes US college-aged men and women have about condoms and condom use.
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PMID: 21851778
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the cause of almost all cases of cervical cancer. The current UK government immunisation program includes free routine HPV vaccination of girls aged 12-13, with a catch-up vaccination program for 13-18-year-old girls. The aim of this study was to identify correlates of i...
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PMID: 21851772
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The main goal in women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (vaginal agenesis) is creation of a neovagina that will satisfy the patient's desire. We evaluated sexual and psychosocial adjustment in patients who underwent rectosigmoid vaginoplasty because of vaginal agenesis.
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PMID: 21851786
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We examined agency experiences through three distinct lenses: (1) the nature of the actors (both human and nonhuman), (2) the nature of the actions, and (3) the nature of the domains for action. The actors were individuals and teams, drugs and technologies, and the cancer itself. Actions could be in...
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PMID: 21933273
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The paper presents the results of a sociological survey of 1093 Moscow 6th-11th form schoolchildren. Their awareness and real behavior are analyzed in the context of smoking and health. The adolescents have been found to have superficial knowledge of the negative effect of smoking on health. Among th...
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PMID: 21842740
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The paper gives the results of a study of the lifestyle of medical students. The students' motor activity has been found to be lower and to continue to drop in the undergraduates. Examination of the daily routine has shown that 92% of the students break the study-and-rest routine; the reported reason...
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PMID: 21842741
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To assess the features of pain and its impact on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
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PMID: 21813781
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The authors (a) explored the impact of individual differences in self-orientations (i.e., relatedness and individuation) of 383 Turkish public- and private-sector employees on their basic need satisfaction at work and their well-being (i.e., life satisfaction and psychological well-being); (b) consid...
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PMID: 21834322
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This investigation supplements the study by D. Bouckenooghe, K. Vanderheyden, S. Mestdagh, and S. van Laethem (2007) on the role of cognitive dispositions in coping patterns for resolving decisional conflict. Literature suggests emotional vulnerabilities may significantly affect decision making. Thus...
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PMID: 21834323
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The authors surveyed women from 2 communities: Anchorage, Alaska (N =51), an urban area, and Haines, Alaska (N=41), an isolated rural community. Participants from Haines scored lower on measures of self-objectification, internalization of sociocultural attitudes toward appearance, participation in be...
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PMID: 21842622
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According to the confluence theory (D. Trafimow, 2009), there is a general tendency of associated mental elements to become compatible with each other. It is possible to derive a reversibility principle from this theory; effects that have been shown to go in 1 direction also can be shown to go in the...
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PMID: 21842625
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The Global School-based Student Health Survey (2005) indicated that in Lebanon, 33% of students in grades 7-9 drink carbonated soft drinks two or more times per day. Observational evidence suggests that students do not drink enough water.
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PMID: 21834488
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Our results suggest that positive and negative urgency are associated with increased activation of general, positive alcohol cognitions, rather than mood-specific subtypes....
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PMID: 21820811
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