Haskin S, Kimitei S, Chowdhury M, et al. - According to findings, African-American (AA) girls showed various health risk factors that were significantly higher compared with those of Caucasian American (CA) adolescent girls at the 95th and 98th percentile. There could be required interventions to make sure access to health risk information as well as a greater ease of access to healthier food choices within the educational food system.

• By recruiting 2,379 girls (51% AA) from ages 9 to 10 in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study, the goal was to compare age-variant 18 health risk factors by creating longitudinal predictive curves between AA and CA adolescent girls.

• Significantly higher trajectories of sugar, sodium, and total calories intake and systolic blood pressure, weight, body fat percentage, and high-density lipoprotein were observed among AA girls, vs those of CA girls, throughout their adolescence.