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A woman's age at first menstruation influences risk of obesity for her children
04-23-2007 · EurekAlert!A new study published in PLoS Medicine suggests that the age when a woman's periods start may affect her children's growth rate during childhood, final height and risk of obesity in later life.
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Cats and cat allergens in the home clearly raise the risk of the allergic sensitisation of children up to the age of two. For older children, however, the influence of the environment at home on the development of cat allergen sensitization decreases. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Helmholtz-Association, when they evaluated the data of more than 2,000 children from Leipzig and Munich.
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- Treating diabetes during pregnancy can break link to childhood obesity
08-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
New Kaiser Permanente study shows treating gestational diabetes can break the link to childhood obesity. The largest study of its kind, this research shows that childhood obesity risk rises with a pregnant woman's blood sugar level and untreated gestational diabetes doubles a child's risk of obesity. Authors looked at 20,000 mothers and children, and found treating gestational diabetes lowers the child's risk of obesity to same level of a mother with normal blood sugar levels.
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- Childhood obesity indicates greater risk of school absenteeism, Penn study reveals
08-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the first study of how weight may affect school attendance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that overweight children are absent from school on average 20 percent more than their normal-weight peersThe study of more than a thousand 4th, 5th and 6th graders also determined that body mass index is as significant a factor in determining absenteeism from school as age, race, socioeconomic status and gender, formerly the four main predictors.
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- Overweight mothers run greater risk of having hyperactive children
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- Obesity-related hormone is higher in children with Down syndrome
10-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Pediatricians call for a cohesive definition of metabolic syndrome in children
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04-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Childhood obesity may contribute to earlier puberty for girls
03-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital say increasing rates of childhood obesity and overweight in the United States may be contributing to an earlier onset of puberty in girls. In a study published this month in Pediatrics, they found that higher body mass index (BMI) score in girls as young as age 3, and large increases in BMI between 3 years of age and first grade are associated with earlier puberty.
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