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Article: Young Adults Visit Doctors Least at an Age When Risky Behavior Peaks.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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When adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though their mortality rate is more than twice that of adolescents (see also University of Rochester Medical Center).
"Young adults are generally a healthy population, but many risky behaviors peak in young adulthood and few resources are available for this population," said Robert J. Fortuna, M.D., M.P.H., senior instructor in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "Despite having the highest rate of many preventable ...