Lifestyle risk indices in adolescence and their relationships to adolescent disease burden: findings from an Australian national survey

• Main Authors: Louise Mewton (Author), Katrina Champion (Author), Frances Kay-Lambkin (Author), Matthew Sunderland (Author), Louise Thornton (Author), Maree Teesson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The current study investigates the extent to which an adolescent-specific lifestyle risk factor index predicts indicators of the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality. Methods Data came from 13 to 17 year-old respondents from the 2013-2014 nationally representative...