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"Obesity and extreme obesity during early childhood are likely to continue into adulthood," writes study author Dr. Liping Pan, a researcher at the CDC. "Understanding trends in extreme obesity is important because the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors increases with severity of childhood ob...
because babies' bodies may not yet prepared for chewing and swallowing. Introducing solid foods too early may also suggest mothers are cutting short breast-feeding. Children who aren't breast-fed are at higher risk for obesity, diabetes, respiratory and ear infections, eczema, and tend to requir...
obesity and asthma.86 Highlighting the importance of gene regulation over time, a study assessing the effects of BMI childhood trajectories on asthma incidence by age 18 years found that DNA methylation at four CpG sites wholly or partially mediated the association between high BMI and incident ...
Discrepancies between classification systems of childhood obesity. Obes Rev 5, 105–114. Article CAS Google Scholar O'Neill JL, McCarthy SN, Burke SJ, Hannon EM, Kiely M, Flynn A et al. (2006). Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Irish school children, using four different definitions...
childhood immunizations, we save $11 based on the math that I just walked through there with you. And so, to help our communities, to protect our children, to protect our families, we really need to continue this teamwork effort, especially through the leadership of health ...
More children in the United States have anautism spectrum disorder(ASD) than previously thought, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports today. New estimates put the figure at 1 in 68 children aged 8 years (or 14.7 per 1000) ― roughly 30% higher than previous estim...
ADHD is a condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. It begins in childhood and may persist into adulthood. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images A child with ADHD may often daydream; forget or lose things; talk too much; squirm or fidget; have difficulty getting along with oth...
U.S. children ages 2 to 5 areoverweight or obese-- and that almost 80 percent of kids ages 1 to 3 exceed the recommended maximum level of daily salt, which is 1,500 milligrams.Excess sugarand salt cancontribute to obesityand elevated blood pressure even in childhood, but also later on....
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