Publications by authors named "G F Prado"

Little is known about the role of acculturation in preventing depressive symptoms among sexual minority youth. This study examined the impact of bidimensional acculturation (i.e.

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Health risk behaviors continue to disproportionately affect Hispanic youth. Despite the existence of successful family and school-based interventions, there is a need for developing and testing individually-based preventive interventions that are easily accessed and widely disseminated. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a prototype (proof of concept) for an individual-level mobile application (app), informed by Hispanic parents and adolescents, to prevent/reduce drug use and sexual risk behaviors among Hispanic youth.

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Background: There is an established link between depression and drug use among adolescents. This relationship holds true for Hispanic youth, for whom familial relationships are especially impactful toward health outcomes.

Purpose: Our purpose was to examine the relationships between family functioning and adolescent and parent depressive symptoms, and the indirect effects of depressive symptoms on the relationship between family functioning and adolescent drug use.

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  • This study examined how the physiological patterns of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with severe aortic stenosis (SAS) change before and after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).* -
  • It found that most patients had diffuse CAD, and vessels that showed a decrease in fractional flow reserve (FFR) post-TAVI had lower pre-TAVI measurements and exhibited significant gradients.* -
  • Instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) changes were inconsistent, with both increases and decreases observed in vessels despite similar low pre-TAVI FFR and iFR values.*
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