Health Claims

For girls who get early puberty and are treated with certain hormone shots, their first period usually comes about a year after stopping treatment — most within one to two years — so doctors can expect when things will start up again.

For girls who start puberty too early, a treatment using certain hormones can help them grow taller than expected — especially if they get a combo of two hormone treatments.

Girls with early puberty who get a combo of two treatments don't end up taller as adults than those who get just one treatment, even though the combo helps them grow more during treatment.

For girls with early puberty who are treated with two hormones (one for puberty and one for growth), the ones who grow more during treatment tend to have started with a lower predicted adult height and more mature bones. How long or how much growth hormone they take doesn’t seem to affect how much they grow.

Girls with early puberty who get both a hormone blocker and growth hormone end up taller than expected—about 9 cm more—compared to those who only get the hormone blocker, which helps about 5 cm.

A fun 6-week school program using videos, group chats, and tech games helped 10- and 11-year-olds in Tanzania feel better mentally — especially with anxiety and sadness — more than just learning the same topics without the activities.

When schools in urban Tanzania involve parents and communities in social-emotional learning programs for 10- and 11-year-olds, kids show bigger improvements in how they relate to others and in gender equality—especially when activities continue at home and in the community.

When kids in Tanzania aged 10 or 11 work together in small mixed groups with adult guidance on hands-on activities, they get better at teamwork than if they just sit and learn facts in class.

Kids in cities in Tanzania between ages 10 and 11 feel more confident, curious, and better at working with others after doing a 6-week program that teaches social and emotional skills through hands-on activities—not just lessons.

Teaching young kids in cities in Tanzania about emotions and relationships through hands-on group activities, talking about their experiences, and getting involved in their communities helps them believe more in equal rights between boys and girls—way more than just teaching them facts in class.

Kids going through their teenage years need time to figure out and feel sure about their gender identity.

This treatment can temporarily stop puberty from moving forward in teens.

This treatment stops puberty permanently in people based on the sex they were assigned when they were born.

In human blood vessel cells, too much salt compared to potassium makes damage from a blood pressure-related substance worse, but two blood pressure medicines (losartan and a combo of losartan with amlodipine) still work just as well to protect the cells, even when salt levels are high.

For US adults with high blood pressure who are on medication, whether they eat more sodium or potassium doesn't change how well their blood pressure drugs work or their risk of heart disease.

For US adults with high blood pressure who are already on treatment, how much sodium versus potassium they eat doesn’t seem to make a real difference in whether they get their blood pressure down to a healthy level.

Adults in the US who take more than one blood pressure medicine tend to have more heart problems than those taking just one, which might mean their hearts were already in worse shape to begin with.

For adults in the U.S. who already take blood pressure medicine, adding a second type of drug doesn’t seem to help them reach healthy blood pressure levels more than just sticking with one medication.

If adults eat more potassium—like from bananas, spinach, or potatoes—they might lower their chances of heart disease by nearly a third for every extra 1000 mg they eat each day, and this seems to help no matter other heart risks they have.

If Iranian adults eat a diet where they get more sodium than potassium—specifically, a ratio over 1.26—they might be more than twice as likely to get heart disease over time.

For adults between 30 and 84, having too much sodium compared to potassium in your diet might nearly double your chances of having a heart problem — it’s not just about salt or potassium alone, but the balance between them.

Iranian adults who eat more potassium — like from fruits and veggies — tend to have much lower chances of heart problems over 10 years, even if they have other risk factors.

In Iranian adults, eating more salt is linked to a higher chance of heart problems over time — every extra 1,000 mg of sodium a day is tied to a much higher risk, so cutting back on salt might help protect the heart.

Different sports lead to different sweat and salt loss patterns, and this stays true even when we account for other factors like fitness or body size.