are childhood diseases on the rise?
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16, 2010 -- Chronic childhood health problems such as obesity, asthma, and learning and behavioral problems are on the rise, more than doubling over a 12-year period, according to a new study.
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Without access to medicines, Africans are susceptible to the three big killer diseases on the continent: malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. Globally, 50% of children under five who die of pneumonia, diarrhoea, measles, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Changes in consumption and lifestyle have increased the incidence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and cancer. Communicable diseases like dengue fever, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis, as well as the possibility of a flu epidemic, still pose significant health security challenges for Sri Lanka.
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Patients who've had their tonsils and adenoids removed in childhood are at significantly increased long-term risk of respiratory, allergic and infectious diseases, according to a new study which — for the first time — examined the long-term effects of the operations.
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By race/ethnicity: The same study found the rate of ADHD diagnosis increased from 7.0% in 1997–1999 to 10.2% in 2012–2014. During this period, prevalence increased among non-Hispanic white children from 8.5% to 12.5%, among non-Hispanic black children from 5.5% to 9.6%, and among Hispanic children from 3.8% to 6.4%.
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The exact cause is unknown, but noma may be due to a certain kind of bacteria. This disorder most often occurs in young, severely malnourished children between the ages of 2 to 5. Often they have had an illness such as measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, or cancer. They may also have a weakened immune system.
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In all specifications, higher parental education is associated with lower levels of stunting, underweight and wasting. In models only adjusted for child age, sex and country-level fixed effects (Model 1), the predicted prevalence tends to be smaller for higher-educated mothers compared with higher-educated fathers.
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Research shows that young people do NOT have immune systems as efficient as adults. Children may be prone to contact a viral infection, and take more time to recover from it. This is true for a number of reasons. Kids are constantly growing and they eat more food, drink more water, and breathe more air than adults do.
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'Chemsex' trend. British Association for Sexual Health and HIV spokesman, Dr Patrick French, says increases in STIs are usually linked to changes in sexual behaviour in a population. He says this recent rise in cases of syphilis has been driven in part by behaviour changes particularly among men who have sex with men.
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The relationship between food and health is complex. Everyone needs food to live, but too little food, too much food, or the wrong type of food has negative consequences for health. To increase understanding of this relationship, we describe trends and patterns in food-related diseases among both adults and children.
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Though the prevalence of Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is associated with several risk factors such as feeding and oral hygiene practices, Streptococcus mutans levels, socioeconomic status (SES), etc., it is suggested that these factors should be studied adequately to aid in the early prevention and management of ECC.
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In Ethiopia, the top five leading causes of age-standardized premature mortality and death rates in 2015 were lower respiratory infections, tuberculosis, diarrheal disease, ischemic heart disease, and HIV/AIDS.
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A catch-up programme is required to protect a generation of children, born between 1997 and 2003, who are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against measles. Low levels of vaccination in this generation were caused by an unsubstantiated scare about the MMR vaccine.
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“After conferring with another local pediatrician, I brought to the epidemiologists' attention that there were three cases of DIPG in Ocean Springs between 2009 and 2017. “They looked at population data from the time period and confirmed that there was an increased incidence of DIPG,” Wurm said.
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For infants, not being breastfed is associated with an increased incidence of infectious morbidity, including otitis media, gastroenteritis, and pneumonia, as well as elevated risks of childhood obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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Although increasing trade is certainly good for economies, it also leads to a globalization of health risks. Important examples of such risks include tobacco, alcohol, global epidemics of non-communicable diseases and trade in health services.
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Childhood cancer rates have been rising slightly for the past few decades. Because of major treatment advances in recent decades, 84% of children with cancer now survive 5 years or more. Overall, this is a huge increase since the mid-1970s, when the 5-year survival rate was about 58%.