By Will Boggs, MD BALTIMORE, Apr 30 (Reuters Health) – High school students who watch wrestling on television may also be more likely to drink, chew tobacco, carry a gun and fight with their dates, according to North Carolina researchers who presented their findings Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Robert DuRant of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem and associates used confidential questionnaires completed by 2,228 high school students to measure the amount of professional wrestling they watched on TV in a 2-week period and compare it with other behaviors, such as alcohol consumption, fighting, illegal drug use […]
