Are role transitions in emerging adulthood associated with smoking among Hispanics in Southern California?
The stress associated with navigating through changes in critical periods of the life course may lead some emerging adults to smoke. Future research should be directed toward determining what specific mechanisms make these transitional processes risk factors for smoking. These determinations could prove critical if effective prevention programs are to be designed that lead to a decrease in the smoking prevalence among Hispanic emerging adults.
These data suggest that there is an association between low serum MBL levels and symptomatic coccidioidomycosis.