Medical News | Medical Articles - Children's Health - Oct 3, 2018 Edition

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October 3, 2018     Children's Health     The latest pediatrics news from News Medical

Obesity in early puberty doubles asthma risk for boy's future offspring   Boys who have considerable weight gain between childhood and puberty, double the risk of having asthma both as an adult and for his future offspring.

Breastfeeding could be important way to prevent childhood obesity, study finds   In the UK a quarter of two-to-five-year olds are overweight or obese. The World Health Organization classify childhood obesity as one of the most serious global health challenges for the 21st century and in 2016 estimated that more than 41 million children under five years old were overweight or obese worldwide.         Research finds drop in number of measles cases in the EU/EEA since March 2018   During the month of July, a total of 758 cases of measles were reported across seventeen countries in the EU/EEA, which is a decrease from the 1054 cases reported during the month of June.

Persistent lung inflammation from childhood asthma may increase risk of anxiety later in life   Persistent lung inflammation may be one possible explanation for why having asthma during childhood increases your risk for developing anxiety later in life, according to Penn State researchers.       Child sleep disorders on the rise due to social media and obesity   More and more children in England are being diagnosed with sleep problems, including nightmares, sleepwalking, and insomnia.       Two-minute bursts of in-class exercise breaks do not disrupt learning and teaching   As childhood obesity rates rise and physical education offerings dwindle, elementary schools keep searching for ways to incorporate the federally mandated half-hour of physical activity into the school day.       Young children's oral microbiota could serve as early indicator for obesity   Weight gain trajectories in early childhood are related to the composition of oral bacteria of two-year-old children, suggesting that this understudied aspect of a child's microbiota -- the collection of microorganisms, including beneficial bacteria, residing in the mouth -- could serve as an early indicator for childhood obesity.       Infant walkers lead to thousands of emergency visits for babies   According to a new study, hundreds of thousands of babies have been injured while using baby walkers. The results of the study appeared in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics this week.       Study: Women exposed to trauma in their lives gave birth to underweight male infants   In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found significantly lower birth weights in male infants--an average decrease of 38 grams, or approximately 1.3 ounces--born to women who had been exposed to trauma at some point in their lives and who secreted higher levels of cortisol, a hormone related to stress, in late pregnancy.       Researchers find link between insufficient sleep and unsafe behavior in teens   Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent of high school students get less than that.       Researchers find human milk oligosaccharides in amniotic fluid   Human milk oligosaccharides are complex carbohydrates that are highly abundant and unique to human milk.       Breastfeeding changes gene activity that regulates infant's response to stress   It has long been known that there are many physical and mental health benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and babies. But can these benefits be due to genetic changes induced by breastfeeding? New research suggests that connection.

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