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Our findings illustrate the need to increase the awareness of negative health implications of prolonged sedentary time while continuing to address the multiple impediments to physical activity as a way to combat chronic disease.
Published in Preventing chronic disease
Women who experienced a very preterm birth or had an infant that weighed 10 pounds or more may benefit from lifestyle intervention to reduce T2DM risk. If replicated, these findings could lead to a reduced risk of T2DM through improved primary care for women experiencing a preterm birth or an infant of nonnormal birth weight.
Published in Preventing Chronic Disease
Preventing Chronic Disease Volume 10 — March 28, 2013LETTER HPV Knowledge Among a Marginalized Population [Letter] Suggested citation for this article: Acosta AM, Bonney LE, Fost M, Green VL, del Rio C. HPV Knowledge Among a Marginalized Population [Letter]. Prev Chronic Dis 2013;10:130088. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd10.130088 . To the edito...
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Introduction Few children in the United States achieve the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Identifying successful interventions that increase physical activity for children is critical. This observational study evaluated the effects of Move-To-Improve (MTI), a classroom-based physical education program designed for kindergarten...
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Results indicate that duration of diabetes, age, number of medications, morbidity, and type of insurance coverage are risk factors for sustained poor glycemic control. Patients with these characteristics may need additional therapies and targeted interventions to improve glycemic control. Patients younger than age 50 and those with a history of cor...
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Although most participants with diabetes received low-fat dietary advice, almost one-third did not. Low-fat dietary advice was more closely associated with the total number of diabetes risk factors than the presence of diabetes. Increasing rates of diabetes and diabetes risk factors are outpacing increases in provision of low-fat dietary advice.
