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According to the latest study, Type 1 diabetes-related brain damage in teenagers may be treatable. In a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found that teens with Type 1 diabetes who closely monitor their blood sugar levels may be able to decrease the disease's negative effects on the brain, effects that have been observed even in younger children. According to the findings, better glucose control may potentially improve the structure and function of the brain in children with Type 1 diabetes, bringing them closer to their non-diabetic peers. This proof-of-concept pilot trial, the most extensive study on the subject to date, was directed by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine and Nemours Children's Health in Jacksonville. Pediatric endocrinologist Nelly Mauras, MD, of Nemours Children's Health Jacksonville and professor of pediatrics at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, is the paper's senior author and co-principa...

10% of pediatric hospitalizations are due to pharmacological side effects, with over 50% of those being life-threatening. Despite the need to understand more about these medicines and the harmful effects they can have on children, there is currently little proof. Although clinical trials remain the gold standard for identifying adverse drug events (ADEs) in adults, its application in juvenile populations raises ethical and scientific questions. Problems with comprehending the potential consequences of various medication therapies at different stages of childhood are greatly made worse by the quick changes in biological and physiological developments. An innovative algorithm developed by researchers at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center was able to recognize nearly 20,000 ADEs signals (information on a new or well-known side effect that may be caused by a particular drug) over the course of the seven pediatric developmental stages and make them openly available. An innovative...

Teenagers who sleep for fewer than eight hours each night are more likely to be overweight or obese. Teenagers who sleep for fewer than eight hours each night are more likely to be overweight or obese than their classmates who obtain the recommended amount of sleep, according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2022. A combination of other harmful traits, such as excessive belly obesity, high blood pressure, and abnormal blood lipid and glucose levels, were also more prevalent in shorter sleepers. According to the study's author, Mr. Jess Martnez Gómez, a researcher in training at the Cardiovascular Health and Imaging Laboratory of the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Madrid, Spain, "our study shows that most teenagers do not get enough sleep and that this is connected with excess weight and characteristics that promote weight gain, potentially setting them up for future problems." We are currently looking a...

A new study from Spain found that eating breakfast at home is linked to less behavioral problems in kids. Young people who eat wholesome breakfasts at home have improved psychological health, according to recent research that was published in Frontiers in Nutrition. Although the importance of a nutritious meal has been mentioned in previous studies, this is the first one to look at the reported effects of whether children eat breakfast as well as where and what they eat. These findings offer insightful commentary and helpful suggestions for parents and their children. According to the study's first author, Dr. José Francisco López-Gil of the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca, Spain, "our results suggest that it is not only important for young people to eat breakfast, but that it's also important for them to consider where they eat breakfast and what they eat." "In children and adolescents, skipping breakfast or eating it away from home is linked to an in...

According to the study, a new intervention encourages schoolchildren to consume fewer unhealthy snacks. A fresh approach encouraging pupils to consume fewer unhealthy snacks has been successfully evaluated by psychologists. Secondary school students frequently overestimate the amount of unhealthy snacking among their classmates, which raises their likelihood of consuming unhealthy snacks themselves, according to researchers from Staffordshire University. "In focus groups with 11 to 13-year-olds done prior to the intervention, we discovered they knew what healthy eating behaviors were, as well as the short-term and long-term impacts, but didn't always implement these behaviors," said Sian Calvert, who oversaw the research across a number of studies. Students were skipping meals as a result of their frequent unhealthy snacking, which appeared to have an impact on how often they consumed normal meals. The focus group discussions also revealed that peers had a significant inf...

A doctor may learn a lot about a child's health and development from the way they walk. The change from a wobbly toddler to a strutting adolescent, however, is not as common as you might imagine. A child's gait may develop slightly differently depending on where in the world they are raised. No matter where a child grows up, most studies indicate that by the age of 7, the length and timing of a child's footsteps correspond to the regularity and coordination of adult walking. However, other research has discovered modest variations in older children's gait from stride to stride. These variances can be impacted by culture and seem to last as long as a person's lanky lower limbs are still developing, up until early adolescence. For instance, researchers in South Africa have discovered that children in the first grade already walk with a mature angle of hip rotation. But in France, children don't begin to exhibit a comparably adult gait pattern until they are roughl...

The American Heart Association's new criteria and scoring system are being used for the first time in a study in the United States to assess cardiovascular health. The majority of children and adolescents in the United States have low scores for cardiovascular health, according to the first study to apply the American Heart Association's new "Life's Essential 8" criteria and scoring system for evaluating cardiovascular health levels in adults and children (CVH). Less than 30% of kids between the ages of 2 and 19 had high CVH in total. In toddlers 2 to 5 years old, 56 percent had high CVH, compared to 33 percent in children 6 to 11 years old and 14 percent in adolescents 12 to 19 years old. The study was released in the Circulation journal. According to senior author Amanda Marma Perak, MD, a cardiologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, ...

Obesity in early adolescence and childhood has been linked to poor mental health and is frequently a risk factor for chronic illnesses like diabetes and cardiovascular disease in adults. A recent study led by Solveig A. Cunningham, Ph.D., and published in Pediatrics found that rates of new cases of obesity in elementary schools are higher and are occurring earlier in childhood than they were even ten years ago. This is despite numerous public health initiatives to promote healthy behaviors and improve living conditions. The multidisciplinary Emory team includes co-senior authors Michael R. Kramer, Ph.D., K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, and postdoctoral fellow Rebecca Jones, Ph.D. The researchers examined which children are most at risk for obesity as well as the ages at which they are most likely to develop it. Data on kindergarten-aged children were compared between the years of 1998 and 2010, and they were followed through the fifth grade. Conclusions apply to all children growing up in the...

The findings of working memory and attention tests were unaffected by the noise levels in the home, according to study that was published in PLoS Medicine. Although it is a widespread problem in cities, the consequences of traffic noise on children's health are still unclear. The development of working memory and attention in young children is negatively impacted by traffic noise, according to new research conducted at 38 schools in Barcelona. The findings of this study were published in the journal PLoS Medicine. It was directed by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution funded by the "la Caixa" Foundation. Researchers Maria Foraster and Jordi Sunyer oversaw the BREATHE initiative study, which included 2,680 children between the ages of 7 and 10. In order to assess the possible impacts of traffic noise on cognitive development, the researchers concentrated on attention and working memory, two abilities that develop swiftly throughout preadole...