Psychiatric disease and hypercholesterolemia in an urban academic primary care clinic.

Background: There are limited data regarding the quality of cardiovascular risk reduction in primary care settings with a high prevalence of psychiatric disease.

Objective: To determine if there are differences in the rates of testing and treatment for hypercholesterolemia between patients with and without psychiatric disease.

Study Design: Cross-sectional chart review.

Health care utilization and receipt of cholesterol testing by veterans with and those without mental illness.

Objective: We examined the relationship between mental illness, health care utilization and rates of cholesterol testing.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data on 64,490 United States veterans who used VA New England Health Care System outpatient services between January 1998 and June 2001. A total of 10,100 veterans (15.

The association between impulsiveness and sexual risk behaviors in adolescent and young adult women.

Cross-sectional survey data from 462 female adolescents were analyzed to determine associations between impulsiveness and sexual risk behaviors and related outcomes. Higher impulsiveness was significantly associated with early age of first sexual intercourse, higher number of sexual partners, non-use of contraception and condoms, and prior Chlamydia infection.