Transitions out of High School: Time of Increased Cancer Risk?
Preventive MedicinePublished 1 September 1997
Tom Baranowski, Karen Cullen, Karen Basen‐Engquist, David W. Wetter, Scott Cummings, Daniel Martineau
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Most lifestyle behaviors display increasing cancer risk around the transition out of high school, and priority research includes establishing the pattern of co-occurrence of lifestyle behaviors through the transition and identifying the primary influences on the group values and tracking of the behaviors.
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Priority research includes establishing the pattern of co-occurrence of lifestyle behaviors through the transition, identifying the pattern of tracking of each behavior through the transition, and identifying the primary influences on the group values and tracking of the behaviors. Longitudinal research is needed to control for preexisting differences between pathways through the transition.
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