Sentences with phrase «old children at risk»

An evaluation of the Webster - Stratton Incredible Years parenting programme in Wales, while finding the intervention to be cost - effective for all 3 — 5 - year - old children at risk of conduct disorder, suggested that the intervention would be most cost - effective for children with the highest risk of developing conduct disorder (Edwards et al., 2007).

Attachment - based intervention for enhancing sensitive discipline in mothers of 1 - to 3 - year - old children at risk for externalizing behavior problems: a randomized controlled trial.

Attachment - based intervention for enhancing sensitive discipline in mothers of 1 - to 3 - year - old children at risk for externalizing behavior problems: a randomized controlled trial.

Not exact matches

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

The latest is Noonan Syndrome which men middle aged and older are at a high risk for fathering a child with because it has no other cause than «old man» sperm.

A German study found that breastfeeding your child reduces their risk of SIDS by 50 percent, and that it is best to breastfeed until your child is at least six months old.

Doctors even recommend that babies under 6 months old must not be given any fruit juices at all since they can significantly increase the risk of obesity in children.

We're not talking about examples of helicopter parenting run amok such as parents of college - age kids calling professors to argue about grades; but not supervising 9 - year - olds at all to the point that parents don't know who their friends are or what they are doing is not only opening a child up to potential risks and bad choices, but making them stressed as well.

Performing a «meta - analysis» of data from 14 studies published between 1999 and 2012, researchers at Cinncinati Children's Hospital found a 72 % risk reduction in female athletes under 18 years old versus a risk reduction of only 16 % for those over age 18.

Infants and children under 2 years old are at risk for death when they sleep in the car.

The data is inconclusive as to whether young children are at a greater risk for adjustment problems, but they clearly are harmed by it as much as older children are.

Once your child is about age 2 or older, the doctor may suggest something called transcranial doppler ultrasonography, which creates a picture of the brain that can help determine whether your baby is at high risk for a stroke.

This is usually well policed with a first child, but when a second comes along and the older child is big enough to play with more intricate toys, then the baby is at risk.

The AAP doesn't recommend reduced - fat milk for children younger than 24 months or nonfat (skim) milk for children age 2 and older unless they're overweight or considered at risk for obesity — and even then, not without the approval of a doctor.

Although it is still thought that most children aren't developmentally ready for formal swimming lessons — in which they can learn to swim well on their own — until they are at least four years old, the AAP now states that some swimming instruction may help lower the risk of drowning for younger children between the ages of one to four years of age.

Older children are less at risk because the gases cause them to develop a headache and call for help.

For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28

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The Roving Caregivers (Caribbean countries) is an early childhood development and family support program available to at - risk Caribbean children under the age of three years old.

Antiretroviral drugs now allow these children to exclusively breastfeed until they are 6 months old and continue breastfeeding until at least 12 months of age with a significantly reduced risk of HIV transmission.

The vaccine is especially important for children less than 5 years of age, and for older children with chronic conditions who are at high risk of complications from the flu.

Formula - fed babies are at risk for the introduction of solid food too early in life (3 to 4 months old), and early solid food introduction places children at a higher risk of obesity later in life.

And that may put a child at risk for bigger problems as he grows older.

There is a risk of botulism contamination in honey that an immature child's digestive system is unable to cope with, so you must wait until your baby is at least one - year - old before offering it.

Pregnant women and young children, among others (e.g., adults 65 years of age and older, people with certain medical conditions) are at high risk of developing flu - related complications.

Keep in mind that children may also be at risk for lead poisoning if they play in the soil around an older home that may become contaminated with exterior lead - based paint.

Children who live in old buildings in which lead still exists in the plumbing or in lead paint that has been painted over may be at risk.

My older children were 3 and 5 at the time, and we just could not risk having their playmates over, as they may be carrying a virus that could be harmful to Alayna.

Once a child is four or five years old and meets the criteria for ADHD, also keep in mind that the AAP states that «In areas where evidence - based behavioral treatments are not available, the clinician needs to weigh the risks of starting medication at an early age against the harm of delaying diagnosis and treatment.»

Also, younger toddlers in particular may be at risk because they don't eat as much solid food as older children and adults, which means that there is less opportunity for their sodium stores to be replenished.

While the children of Flint, Michigan face the danger of lead in their water, it is old lead paint on the walls of area homes that puts our children at risk.

Some people, such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions, are at high risk for serious flu complications.

«The persons most at risk are the children under 5 and those older than 65 years, although many baby boomers between 50 and 65 are getting the flu as well.»

Children and older people are at greater risk of severe symptoms from dehydration, and using sports beverages, chicken soup or other home remedies may actually worsen the illness.»

In July, in an update of a 1998 policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended dropping the age at which at - risk children should be given statins — a class of cholesterol - lowering medication — from 10 years old to 8 years.

Researchers examined the data of 314 overweight and obese Latino children who were between 8 and 15 years old when they enrolled in the National Institutes of Health - funded Study of Latino Adolescents at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (SOLAR) study, a 12 - year undertaking.

Malaspina used the Israeli group to look first at the risk of schizophrenia in children of older fathers — and then at the risk of autism.

«Up to 60 per cent of women will start their pregnancy overweight, many women are having children at an older age, and most people have a family member with Type 2 diabetes, so traditional risk factors are starting to apply to more and more people, which prevent us from properly identifying those at a high risk.»

In all these studies, researchers took a close look at whether there was something about the older fathers — unrelated to age — that increased the risk of schizophrenia in their children.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

«Our research raises the concern that we very well may be missing a large group of children who potentially could be at risk for these diseases as they get older,» Dr. Javed says.

Impairments of motor function among children with a familial risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder at 7 years old in Denmark: an observational cohort study.

In each cohort, older children were immunized at least one day before younger children so that vaccine responses could be observed first in older children before exposing younger children to potential risks of vaccination.

A more recent interest concerns infants and children at high risk for developing autism (such as those with an older sibling with autism or who have a particular genetic variance).

The report recommended prioritizing cannabis research — clinically and in health policy, health economics, public health and public safety — especially in at - risk and under - researched populations, such as children and youth, older populations, pregnant women and heavy users.

And for those at high risk for complications — such as anyone 65 years or older, people with chronic medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease), pregnant women, and young children — the flu is much more than a nuisance; it's potentially life - threatening.

The researchers — who examined data on more than 8,000 children up to age 14 — did find that breast - feeding was linked to a reduced risk of obesity and hyperactivity and measures of higher intelligence, but that breast advantage evaporated once they looked at families where one child was breast - fed and one wasn't (my exact situation — my older son got the breast while the younger one had to settle for formula because I had low supply).

Moreover, pediatricians routinely test babies and children they consider at risk for anemia and encourage iron supplementation starting as early as four months old in accordance with the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Lead from old pipes, paint, or even leaded gasoline still in topsoil (with children particularly at risk because even brief exposure can affect brain development)

Dehydration can be a serious problem for anyone, but children and older adults are at greater risk, according to the Gatorade Sports Science Institute.