Historically, researchers have assumed that children of alcoholics will be victims of their parent's alcoholism. However, there are children of alcoholic parents who manage to thrive despite their parent's addiction, and as a result of this resiliency, avoid developing alcoholism themselves. In ...
No support for time-varying effects was found; proximal effects of mothers' alcohol-related consequences on child-reported internalizing symptoms were found and distal effects of mother and father alcoholism predicted greater internalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents. Implications for the ...
For children, the safety and stability they need to thrive will be missing in a home where alcoholism prevails, which can cause great anxiety that can stay with them for the rest of their lives. If the parent with the drinking problems becomes physically or emotionally abusive while under the...
This longitudinal study assessed the effects of parents' marital transitions and pubertal development on grandparent-grandchild relationships. 9- to 13-year-old children, their mothers, and maternal grandparents from 186 Caucasian, middle-class families including 73 intact families, 64 mother-custody, ...
Research has shown that there is a line of hereditary influence. Children with parents that are alcoholics are more likely to become alcoholics than children who have non-alcoholic parents. This means that they have the genes so there is a greater chance that they will end up like their paren...
It decreases the alcoholic's cravings for alcohol by blocking the body's euphoric ("high") response to it. People take naltrexone either by mouth on a daily basis or through monthly injections. Physicians prescribe disulfiram (Antabuse) for about 9% of alcoholics. It decreases the alcoholic'...
Crestor is also used to treat hereditary forms of high cholesterol, including the heterozygous type (inherited from one parent) and the homozygous type (inherited from both parents). For the heterozygous type, Crestor can be used in children who are at least 8 years old. For the homozygous ty...
Mental disorders and harmful substance use in children of substance abusing parents: A longitudinal register-based study on a complete birth cohort born in... Adverse childhood experiences and their accumulation over childhood have negative outcomes to children, yet earlier findings on the independent ...
- Most of the studies on the effects of probiotics and synbiotics on obesity are related to anthropometric measurements, lipid parameters and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and there are few studies regarding their effects on intestinal microbiota composition, especially in children. What is New ...
indirectly. BMI is measured using a formula [BMI = weight (kg)/ height (m)^2].[6][7]As growth in children varies with age and sex, so do the norms for BMI. The following definitions are used to classify weight status based on BMI for children from 2 to 20 years of age.[8][9...