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Children’s Cholesterol Matter

...e more likely to develop high cholesterol in later childhood and adulthood. Researchers studied the eating habits and cholesterol levels of nearly 450 preschool children for about five years. The children were examined by doctors and had their HDL, or good cholesterol, and LDL, or bad cholesterol, measured per...

Helping Kids Attain a Healthy Weight

Research shows being overweight in childhood leads to numerous health concerns. But a new study...cations of being overweight and the perceptions of childhood obesity seen in the study, the authors identified the following strategies for addressing the proble...

Preventing Childhood Deaths

...ntable with existing medical treatments. While the childhood mortality rate in these nations has dropped over t...occur in just 42 countries.// Forty percent of all childhood deaths occur in infants under 1 month of age. Children under age 5 most often succumb to diarrhea, p...

Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

.... Despite great strides in treatment, death due to childhood asthma has not dropped. Roughly 50 children in the U.K. and more than 200 in the U.S die each year from asthma. Dr. Roberts' team studied 19 children who required emergency ventilator treatment //for a life-threatening asthma attack, matching each pa...

Homeless More Likely to Die Early

...atest risk of early death, the study says. Adverse childhood experiences, such as the death of a father, and alcohol and drug abuse were other predictors of early death among the homeless people. The study suggests outreach and case-management techniques may help improve the daily living standards for homeles...

Death Among the Homeless

...tion. Other predictors of early death include bad childhood experiences and the use of alcohol or drugs. Most of the homeless people studied had severe psychiatric problems. Ten percent of them had been institutionalized as children. Others suffered dramatic experiences, such as the death of a parent. Fourtee...

How to Improve Life Expectancy

...afe water, //sanitation and hygiene, indoor smoke, childhood sexual abuse, and vitamin deficiencies. They found 47 percent of premature deaths and 39 percent of total diseases around the world in 2000 resulted from a combination of risk factors. Some of the health problems that resulted were diarrhea, lower r...

Sunshine Reduces MS Risk

...ce the risk of disease. Higher sun exposure during childhood and early adolescence is associated with a reduced risk of multiple sclerosis, according to the study. Australian investigators conducted a study in Tasmania, which is located at high latitude and has a high prevalence of multiple sclerosis. //Resear...

Radiation Not Needed for Childhood Cancers

...isorders is no higher among survivors of cancer in childhood or adolescence. //The one striking exception was a...f leukemia in children and the most common type of childhood cancer. Patients suffering from this disease have too many underdeveloped white blood cells....

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

...ached middle and old age. Bone mass development in childhood is critical to preventing the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis in later life....

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

Researchers believe a troubled childhood can lead to an increased risk of liver disease. C... The researchers theorized abuse or neglect during childhood would lead to risky behavior in adulthood and therefore, increase the risk of liver disease. They d...

Weight and Blood Pressure

...w birthweight and low socio-economic status during childhood can also contribute to higher blood pressure in th...lso had data on the participants’ birth weight and childhood social class. Researchers report a consistent negative association between birthweight and systolic...

Snoring May Be Sign of Asthma in Kids

...ildren who do not have asthma, Sullivan notes that childhood asthma and snoring do appear to be linked, pointing out that more than 40 percent of children who snored had asthma, compared to about 26 percent of children who did not snore. "Snorers had almost a doubling of the level of asthma," Sullivan says."B...

Prevention of Rickets

...e given vitamin D supplementation.// Rickets is a childhood disorder involving softening and weakening of the bones, primarily caused by lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. It is most likely to occur during rapid growth, when the body demands high levels of calcium and phosphate. Rickets may be seen in ...

Elevated LDL levels in Childhood could be Predictors of Heart Disease

...d, according to new research.// A new study finds childhood levels of low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, and bod...ive burden of each of the risk factors. They found childhood LDL levels and BMI are significant risk factors for having increased carotid IMT in adulthood. In ad...

Support Services found to Dramatically Impact Pediatric Health Care

...radeoffs in health care expenditures between early childhood and end of life will become even more acute and significant as the baby boom generation ages and consumes increasing proportions of the health care dollar." Thus medical providers in the public health arena agree that investing in early health care...

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...t. ?h ICS therapy is associated with a decrease in childhood growth rates, but the effect is small and studies suggest it may not persist with long-term therapy. Adult height of asthmatic children treated with ICS therapy is not substantially different from adult height attained by nonasthmatic children. Conc...

Onset Linked To Severity of Asthma

...earchers found that patients whose asthma began in childhood were more frequently allergic than those whose asthma began as adults, while adult-onset asthma was associated with more rapid loss of lung function. Researchers say they were surprised to find that many patients showed no signs of inflammation, gene...

Persistent Childhood Wheeze Probably Inherited

...any different causes, some of which are typical of childhood asthma and some // of which are not. Previous stud...However, some children who develop wheeze later in childhood end up with the same characteristics as those who begin wheezing early. This study involved nearly ...

Childhood Weight Gain Found To Increase The Risk of Diabetes

Being overweight in childhood can no longer be considered a benign condition or ...nate from what happens during fetal development or childhood weight gain. Previous studies have shown high rates of diabetes in people who were born small but be...

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