Youngho Kim

..Analysis indicated adolescents tend to have unrealistic perceptions of their vulnerability to most health risks and perceived their own likelihood of encountering all health risk events as lower than that of others...

..The present study provides a starting point for stage-matched interventions aimed at increasing exercise levels, and a baseline level from which to evaluate interventions...

..The purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence of health risk behaviours among a random sample of Korean adolescents and the relationship of psychological variables with health risk behaviours...

..Also, they rated the chances of most health risks happening to them as significantly lower than those of others in the same age compared with Australian peers...

..Korean adolescents' smoking is currently being considered as a crucial factor determining the health status of adolescents and an important public health and social issue...

..6%. This study supports the internal and external validity of the TTM for explaining exercise behavior...

..This study provides much need information about the relatively unstudied Korean adolescents in terms of their smoking issues and aspects of psychological attributes that relate directly to smoking...

..To examine the exercise behavior of Korean adolescents, reveal the differences in self-efficacy and decision balance by the stages of exercise behavior, and identify the relationship between exercise behavior and psychological variables...

..This study examined the prevalence of smoking behavior among Korean adolescents, revealed factors affecting their smoking behavior, and identified the relationship between smoking behavior and psychological variables...

..A limited data are available on the psychological predictors of exercise behavior in public health...

..This study provides significant information for the relatively unstudied Korean adolescents and also has the potential to influence the development of better mental health programs for adolescents...

..Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are considered rare diseases in developing countries. We have evaluated the incidence and prevalence of CD and UC over time in a district of Seoul, Korea...

..However, the degree of malignant potential has not been firmly established as yet. The purpose of the present paper was to compare the malignant potential and clinicopathological features between serrated and traditional adenomas...

..011). There was no drop out or adverse events for either group during the study period. Lactobacillus acidophilus-SDC 2012, 2013 appeared to have a beneficial effect in patients with IBS. Further studies are warranted...

..Therefore, the increased prevalence of IBS in women may be related to another set of pathophysiological factors, and not to gender-related differences in visceroperception...

..This indicates that hypomethylation compensates the chromosomal losses in the process of tumor progression...

..006). CONCLUSION : MSI-H tumors are more frequently found in intestinal-type gastric cancer, which suggests the possibility that there are different pathogenic pathways in gastric carcinogenesis according to histologic type...

..Coexisting second primary malignancies were found in 23 cases. At the time of diagnosis, a total of 354 cases had cervical lymph node metastasis accounting for 42.0%...

..However, there is a lack of information about the relationship between metabolic syndrome and colorectal adenoma. Therefore, we investigated whether metabolic syndrome is a risk factor for colorectal adenoma...

..However, the incidence of bacteremia after an EMR or ESD for colorectal tumors has not been reported...

..To determine the prevalence and risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in gastrointestinal endoscopists in Korea...

..We evaluated the clinical significance of polypectomy in cases of small colorectal adenomas, measuring less than 10 mm...

..Differences were observed between the small bowel follow-through and the capsule endoscopy classification (kappa=0.54). Treatment was changed based on the results of wireless capsule endoscopy in 15 patients...

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..Physicians should be aware of the changes in the clinical pattern of laryngeal tuberculosis, which poses serious complications and risk of spreading...

..CONCLUSION: Nine factors have been found to be associated with IPPB and polypectomy should be undertaken with caution under these conditions...

..Methylation-variable transitional CpGs were observed for the selected genes and the different tissues...

..05). CONCLUSIONS: Colonic diverticulitis is more prevalent at the right colon and left colonic diverticulitis has more complications than right colonic diverticulitis in Korea...

..Dictyoquinazols protected primary cultured mouse cortical neurons from glutamate- and NMDA-induced excitotoxicities in a dose-dependent manner...

..Of the compounds isolated, gymnasterkoreaynes B (2), C (3), F (6), and 1,9,16-heptadecatrien-4,6-diyn-3,8-diol (8) exhibited significant cytotoxicity against L1210 tumor cells with ED(50) values of 0.12-3.3 microg/mL...