Sentences with phrase «childhood disease and death»

Kidney disease, which often leads to kidney failure, is a common complication of ciliopathies and is a significant cause of childhood disease and death.

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Faith - based organizations are a vital and growing part of our global effort to end childhood deaths from preventable diseases.

Immunization is one of the most cost - effective health interventions ever known for lowering childhood deaths and disease.

If you insist that all people are sinners and deserve such things arbitrarily, then I would suggest serious childhood diseases that cause suffering and death like cancers.

It also impairs immune system function and increases the risk of death from certain childhood diseases.

We've heard of some recent stories where some of the formulas were pulled off the shelves, because of contaminations, and then babies that are receiving formula have a higher risk of middle ear infection, eczema, gastrointestinal infections, lower respiratory track diseases, asthma, the risk of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, also childhood leukemia and sudden infant death syndrome.

Breastfeeding can lower the risk of gastrointestinal and diarrheal infections, ear infections, respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, diabetes, childhood obesity, heart disease, eczema, necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Baby has a lower risk for infections and stomach problems, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and childhood leukemia.

Excluding type 2 diabetes (because of insufficient data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.

Childhood obesity also increases the risk of obesity, noncommunicable diseases, premature death and disability in adulthood.

It includes accidents, sudden infant death syndrome, and childhood diseases.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Childhood obesity often leads to adult obesity, which causes many health problems including heart disease, diabetes, and even early death.

Suboptimal breastfeeding accounts for one million infant deaths annually, and 10 percent of the disease burden in children, reported the UK publication, Archives of Disease in Childhood, idisease burden in children, reported the UK publication, Archives of Disease in Childhood, iDisease in Childhood, in 2012.

Providing this support is the right thing to do for both babies and mothers: breastfeeding prevents infant death, childhood illness and non-communicable diseases, while supporting brain development and protecting maternal health.

In Nigeria, the disease is responsible for 60 % outpatient visits to health facilities, 30 % childhood death, 25 % of death in children under one year and 11 % maternal death.

The rare, debilitating genetic diseases, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and progressive osseous heteroplasia, strike in childhood and lead to years of pain and early death.

Although he is only mildly affected, more serious forms of the disease can lead to deteriorating brain function and death in childhood.

Ebola's lasting legacy may be in maternal and child health: Public health officials worry that deaths during childbirth and from preventable childhood diseases like measles could escalate into the tens of thousands.

A promising treatment for a rare childhood disorder characterized by rapid aging and death prevented and even reversed the most devastating effect of the disease in mice.

This is a major concern because the cumulation of risk factors in childhood significantly increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, vascular diseases and premature death in adulthood.

The authors were interested in whether zinc supplements could reduce childhood death and disease, and help support growth.

Analyzing historical birth and death records from 19th - century Europe, he and Eileen Crimmins, a gerontologist and sociologist at the University of Southern California, found that longevity is directly related to exposure to childhood disease.

Now an analysis by Ian Deary at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his team has found that a higher test score in childhood was linked with a 28 per cent lower risk of death from respiratory disease and a 25 per cent reduction in coronary heart disease risk.

He proved that a vitamin A deficiency dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious disease, and that a 4 - cent dose of vitamin A not only prevented and cured eye disease, but also reduced childhood deaths by 34 percent.

Hotter temperatures lead to more smog, which can damage lungs, and increases childhood asthma, respiratory and heart disease, and death,» the state attorney general's office cautions.

There is consistent evidence that indoor air pollution increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and of acute respiratory infections in childhood, the most important cause of death among children under 5 years of age in developing countries.

Recent publications from the ACE Study have shown a strong, graded relationship between the number of adverse childhood experiences, multiple risk factors for leading causes of death in the United States, 23 and priority health and social problems such as smoking, 24 sexually transmitted diseases, 25 unintended pregnancies, 26 male involvement in teen pregnancy, 27 and alcohol problems.28

Rather, the experience of childhood trauma triggers a chain of events that ultimately result in negative health outcomes, including disease, disability, and early death.

Women who smoke during pregnancy are at a higher risk for miscarriage and complications during pregnancy and delivery.45 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking during pregnancy leads to more than 1,000 infant deaths each year.46 After giving birth, health risks continue through infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

If you follow my work you already know that research shows that #ACEs, such as being chronically put down or humiliated, living with a depressed, mentally ill, or alcoholic parent, losing a parent to divorce or death, being emotionally neglected, physically or sexually abused, as well as many other types of toxic childhood stressors, are linked to a much greater likelihood of developing autoimmune disease, heart disease and cancer in adulthood.

Childhood diseases can cause children pain and discomfort, and also lead to doctor visits, hospitalization and even death.