Parental and peer influences on smoking among young adults: ten-year follow-up of the Oslo youth study participants.

This study was designed to investigate the impact of family and peer role models during the early adolescent years on smoking onset and on subsequent daily smoking among young adults. Baseline data were collected from a sample of 827 students and their parents in 1979. Participating students were recruited among 5th, 6th and 7th graders (11-14 years old) attending six schools in Oslo, Norway.

Ten-year follow-up of the Oslo Youth Study Smoking Prevention Program.

Background: The Oslo Youth Study was designed to demonstrate that health education in schools can result in lowered rates of smoking and alcohol consumption, improved eating patterns, and increased physical activity. The study was conducted from 1979 to 1981 in six schools in Oslo, Norway. This article presents the 10-year follow-up outcomes of the Oslo Youth Study Smoking Prevention Program.

Reduced plasma fibrinogen, serum peroxides, lipids, and apolipoproteins after a 3-week vegetarian diet.

The influence of a 3-week vegetarian diet and fasting on serum concentration of peroxides, lipids, apolipoproteins, and plasma fibrinogen was studied in ten middle-aged fibromyalgia/fibrositis patients (eight women, two men). Mean serum peroxide concentration (estimated as thiobarbituric acid reacting substances) was reduced from 3.60 +/- 0.

Physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiovascular disease risk factors in adolescents: the Oslo Youth Study.

Aerobic fitness, resting pulse rate, and self-reported physical activity were examined along with prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in a population-based study of 413 boys and 372 girls, ages 10 to 14 years. Cardiovascular fitness (VO2 max) was predicted from heart rate measured during submaximal bicycle exercise. For both genders, fitness level was significantly and inversely related to body weight, body mass index [weight in kilos/(height in meters)2], triceps skinfold thickness, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and pulse rate and positively related to high-density lipoprotein/total cholesterol ratio and physical activity.

Cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides during puberty: the Oslo Youth Study.

The relationships of serum total cholesterol, high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and fasting triglycerides (adjusted for body mass index, wt/ht2) with stages of pubertal development were examined in a Norwegian population of 920 adolescents, aged 10 to 16 years. For 13- and 14-year-olds, all five stages of Tanner's maturity index were represented. For the whole population, total serum cholesterol showed a larger decrease when related to sexual maturity stage than to chronologic age.