Publications by authors named "S R LAVIETES"
Objectives: To characterize, during a 2-year period, the proportion of youth with type 2 diabetes (T2D) enrolled in the Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth study that reported ever at least trying smoking cigarettes and/or drinking alcohol.
Study Design: Longitudinal data were examined for participants with T2D ages 10-18 years at baseline. Youth psychosocial, parent/family, environmental, and biological correlates of trying health risk behaviors were tested via cross-sectional multivariate models at each time point.
Objective: The study objective was to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and relationships to quality of life and demographics in the Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY) study's large, ethnically diverse youth with type 2 diabetes.
Research Design And Methods: A total of 704 youth with type 2 diabetes <2 years' duration, aged 10-17 years, and BMI ≥85th percentile completed depressive symptoms and quality of life measures.
Results: Some 14.
Objective: To determine short- and long-term effects of the Bright Bodies Weight Management Program on obese adolescents and to further observe if a diet or nondiet approach is more successful.
Design: Twenty-five obese adolescents completed a 1-year, comprehensive weight-management program and returned for a 2-year follow-up. Adolescents were 11 to 16 years old (17 female, eight male) with mixed ethnic backgrounds.
Objective: To describe the clinical features that distinguish accidental from abusive head injury in hospitalized children <24 months of age.
Methods: Prospective study of children <24 months of age hospitalized for head injury between August 1, 2000, and October 31, 2002. During hospitalization, children had computed tomographic scans of the brain, serial neurologic examinations, dilated ophthalmoscopic eye examinations, evaluation by a social worker, and, in some cases, a child abuse specialist.