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Offspring's birth weight affected by father's diabetes

...ficant difference cannot be explained by father's height or social class. The study involved a large group of people born in 1958 in Britain who were interviewed then and were evaluated four decades later. The follow-up respondents consisted of 8000 parents, 35 of whom were men with diabetes and 25 of who...

Shorter infants have lower incomes in later life

...30 men born in Helsinki between 1934 and 1944. The height of each man had been measured an average of 18 times between birth and age 12, measurements that the researchers linked to records of their level of education, information about income and occupation taken from the 1990 census. The researchers divid...

Excess Weight Can Affect Individuals as They Age

...ed as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. The study included 6,766 middle-aged men and women who did not have diabetes or heart disease. The participants were part of another study between 1967 and 1973 when they were between 36 and 64 years old. Researchers had the participants c...

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...t 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. Conclusions could not be drawn on the effect of ICS therapy on b...

Insulin Resistance Linked To Difference In Gender

...ite similar body weights. However, after adjusting height and weight variables and physical activity, girls remain 33-percent more insulin-resistant than boys. Researchers also found triglycerides were significantly higher in girls and good cholesterol was lower in girls than in boys. Investigators say th...

Blood Pressure Checks To Be Done For Children As Young As Age 3

...g blood pressure in children based on age, weight, height and sex. According to the latest standards // children as young as age 3 should receive regular blood pressure checks. Kids who fall in the 95th percentile for blood pressure are diagnosed with high blood pressure. Kids who fall between the 90th pe...

Weight Of Child A Predictor Of Heart Disease Later In Life

...they also found that the mother’s age, weight and height affected the child’s blood pressure. Thus researchers say they believe that quitting smoking during pregnancy could have a small positive effect. Thus researchers conclude saying that a child’s weight plays a significant role in his risk for high bl...

Growth Patterns In Childhood Could Predict Breast Cancer Later In Life

...to the key findings were: birth weight: 7 percent; height at age 14: 15 percent; BMI at age 14: 15 percent, and age at peak growth: 9 percent. These risks remained elevated even after researchers adjusted for other factors thought to affect breast cancer risk, such as age of first menstrual period and age a...

Suppressing A Girls Height In Adolescence Could Lead to Fertility Problems

...ms later on in life . Estrogen is thought to limit height by altering long bone development. The study involved 780 women who had been assessed for estrogen therapy as girls and completed a fertility survey later in life. About half had actually been treated with estrogen, and the other half was not treate...

Understanding Insulin Resistance

...ite similar body weights. However, after adjusting height and weight variables and physical activity, girls remain 33-percent more insulin-resistant than boys. Researchers also found triglycerides were significantly higher in girls and good cholesterol was lower in girls than in boys. Thus researchers sug...

Giving up smoking is good for health, but causes weight gain too

...habits and weight, adjustments being made for age, height and gender. The results of the study shows that stopping smoking seems to benefit women more than men, in terms of weight gain or lung function. However, if people who quit smoking can maintain their weights, sex difference in terms of health benefi...

Improved height from administration of growth hormones

...rom lack of growth hormones, gained about 50% more height than the conventional dosages of growth hormone administered to a control group. They were given dosages of growth hormones adjusted to the levels of IGF-I that was the mean for the age and gender. Researchers feel that there is dramatic difference ...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

...ed other important data like pubertal development, height and weight, physical activity and dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium. The bone mineral density of the lumbar spine and left femur were measured at the beginning and end of the study with dual x-ray absorptiometry. For study participants who ...

Vitamin D Supplement in Teenage Girls essential in Winter months

...ed other important data like pubertal development, height and weight, physical activity and dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium. The bone mineral density of the lumbar spine and left femur were measured at the beginning and end of the study with dual x-ray absorptiometry. For study participants who ...

Increased physical activity to stop obesity in teen girls

...rchers had taken into account the BMI derived from height and weight, measurements to evaluate body fat through skin fold, records of physical activity and diet of the participants of the study. However, the researchers have also reported a growing tendency among the teenagers to underreport their diets and...

Obesity More Likely to Cause Disability than Death in Elderly

...ss index, which is calculated from self-reports of height and weight. Analyzing the effect of obesity on the elderly and defining “active life” as having no difficulty in performing any functions necessary for day-to-day life, researchers drew several conclusions. About 13 percent of the population over ag...

Ethiopian Children Face Threat From Malnutrition

...rcent or less of the median in terms of weight and height measurements. Malnutrition is also a major concern among HIV/AIDS infected in Ethiopia, who number 1.5 million. What is all the more alarming is that acute malnutrition rates among children under five years is increasing at an unbelievable pace rang...

Scandals Can Affect Medical Research

...and ethical approval, say the authors. “During the height of the controversy, press reports suggested that the only proper response to any use of children’s tissue was skepticism and questioning of professional motives.” Anecdotal experience also suggests that medical staff may have been deterred from aski...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

...ed as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) of the two sets of patients. All patients were women. The researchers compared surgical times as well as the ratio of the procedure time to the patient’s BMI. The number and severity of complication were comparable, the researchers found...

Exposure To Greenery And Graffiti May Affect Obesity

... in 2002-3. Questionnaires captured information on height and weight, which was then used to calculate body mass index, and level of physical activity. Surveyors then assessed the immediate residential environment, including the amount of graffiti, litter, and dog mess, as well as the level of vegetation ...

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