Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma
Parental Stress Increases Kids’ Risk of Asthma: Interesting how environment can effect health. Now study shows that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma.
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Breathing Disorders, Asthma
http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P00004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma
Bottle-Feeding
http://healthlibrary.brighamandwomens.org/Search/85,P01196
Screening Tool May Help Identify Abnormal Blood Pressure in Children and Teens
A simplified pediatric blood pressure table may simplify screening for potentially abnormal blood pressures in children and adolescents
http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/703958?src=cmemp
Parental Stress Increases Kids' Risk of Asthma
In their study of nearly 2,500 non-asthmatic children ages 5 to 9 who lived in the area, researchers found that the level of stress reported by the children’s parents had a significant impact on the kids’ susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma — namely exposure to pollution from traffic and secondhand smoke.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1912184,00.html
War on Obesity Targets Toddlers
War on Obesity Targets Toddlers – That cute little munchkin who looks like a sumo wrestler may be heading down a rocky road as he or she gets older. Pediatricians are treating children as young as 2 in a effort to stop a problem before it literally grows out of control.
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Cholesterol Screening is Urged for Young
Cholesterol Screening is Urged for Young – Good health’s got to start somewhere and so does bad health. Screening the young for such things as high cholesterol may not spring to mind, but new guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics has made that recommendation.
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Why Safe Kids are Becoming Fat
Why Safe Kids are Becoming Fat – If you grew up in the 50′s you will relate to this article and cheer the author. At some point we have lost something in growing up … Risk! So much has been done to shelter children from the chance of getting hurt that we are creating a generation of young people who are getting fat and many may face a lifetime of chronic disease. Might unstructured exercise avert this?
Screening Tool May Help Identify Abnormal Blood Pressure in Kids
Screening Tool May Help Identify Abnormal Blood Pressure in Kids: A simplified pediatric blood pressure table may simplify screening for potentially abnormal blood pressures in children and adolescents.
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Obese as a Child Triples Risk of Heart Attack by Middle Age.
Dr. Glenn Gandleman report on studies that should keep kids trim and exercised.
