Sentences with phrase «previous studies children»

In previous studies children have been admitted to specialist sleep centres at hospital to measure sleep via a polysomnographic study,» says Anne Virring Sørensen.

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Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

Behavior experts David Whitebread and Sue Bingham of the University of Cambridge reviewed previous studies to determine how children learn in general, and how they learn about money in particular.

«While the previous decision by the FDA to ban BPA in products used by babies and small children is the step in the right direction, this new study again raises an important question: should FDA consider banning BPA for more than just this vulnerable population?

Previous studies in Australian children / adolescents and adults examining added sugar (AS) intake were based on now out - of - date national surveys.

Consumption of other packaged foods is similarly widespread: one study found that 80 - 90 % of children age 6 - 23 months in places like Dakar, Senegal, and Kathmandu Valley, Nepal ate a commercially - produced packaged food within the previous week.

In fact, babies who are born to mothers that delivered a previous child a year prior have triple the risk of developing autism, according to a Journal of Epidemiology study.

Most recently, there was a study (Ayrim 2014), in Turkey: 165 women with singleton pregnancies who were breastfeeding the previous child.

Previous studies questioned whether the USDA's National School Lunch Program, which provides free or reduced - priced meals to low - income students, helped children maintain a healthy weight.

Previous research has tied smoking cigarettes during pregnancy to behavior problems among children later on, but those studies couldn't rule out the influence of other factors, such as genetics or parenting techniques, researchers said.

Although previous studies have found that breastfeeding provides a variety of benefits for babies, including apparently reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, the study is the first to demonstrate an overall reduction in mortality among U.S. children, Rogan and other experts said.

«Previous studies have shown reductions in children's social, emotional and behavioral problems,» said Ron Prinz, Ph.D., at the University of South Carolina, the study's lead investigator.

After analyzing hundreds of previous studies, including some that involved pregnant women and children, the authors found no strong evidence in favor of the organics.

The data is the result of a follow - up study looking at children involved in two previous studies initiated in the 1990s.

I do not have the details of the previous study day I attended to hand but there was a talk on Fussy eating; one on Faltering growth and safeguarding; one on milk allergies and finally a presentation from Action for Children on the Nurse Family Partnership scheme pilot run in York.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

Although previous studies have found feeding children peanut and egg may reduce allergy risk, other studies have found no effect.

Previous studies have suggested that men who delay fatherhood run a (slightly) higher risk of having children who develop autism.

Previous studies were too small and inconclusive to indicate whether men with lower testosterone levels were more likely to have children or whether the hormone dropped for all men after fatherhood.

A new study by scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of California Davis adds to their previous research implicating insulin's role in lactation success.

This meta - analysis that included studies not featured in previous meta - analyses on the subject indicates that promoting breastfeeding for 6 months or more may help lower childhood leukemia incidence, in addition to its other health benefits for children and mothers.

Unlike previous studies, the Southampton research found the effect in children from the general population, not just those whose parents suspected they were sensitive to food dyes.

In this study, researcher analyzed the results of 11 previous studies on the differences in intelligence between breastfed and formula fed babies and children.

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

Consistent with a previous study, 35 most fathers reported regularly playing games and singing or talking to their children, suggesting that these activities may be more normative behaviors for fathers than reading stories.

Most previous studies have compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months, compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10

Like the previous study, these data were adjusted for factors like the children's physical activity and body composition and parental weight and education.

Nonetheless, state environmental officials downplayed residents» complaints and vehemently disputed local studies that found a link between elevated blood - lead levels among children and the water source switch, until, in October, Snyder conceded the situation had become a «public safety issue» and announced a $ 12m plan to transfer Flint back to its previous supply with the city of Detroit.

«It's unclear as to why our study on children showed contrasting results to previous studies on adults.

«Previous studies have linked intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children, but there is little information about when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.

Excess body weight has been linked to poor academic performance in children in several previous studies.

«We knew from our previous work that preschool and kindergarten children with uncorrected farsightedness have decreased early literacy, and this new study shows that there are even more deficits in these children early on,» she said.

Previous research cited in the study suggests that children placed in special education are at higher risk for dropping out of school and for committing crimes as adults.

The raccoons performed differently than birds and human children did in previous Aesop's Fable studies, and they did not always pick the most functional option.

Previous studies by this research group have demonstrated that television food advertising exposure alters children's food preferences in the direction of high fat, high sugar snack foods and also increases their consumption of these sorts of foods.

While the growth difference was small, the finding echoes previous studies showing that children who take inhaled corticosteroids for asthma may experience a small negative impact on their growth rate.

Previous studies have found parents» characteristics influence their reports of concerns about their child's development.

Previous studies with older children showed that peanut OIT can offer some protection against potentially life - threatening anaphylaxis caused by peanut exposure.

At the start of the study, 48 percent of children with asthma had reported bronchitis symptoms in the previous year.

Previous studies have shown that greater cognitive flexibility relates to better reading abilities as a child, resilience as an adult, and quality of life in the advanced years.

By the age of twelve, around one in four (24.4 %) of children in the study reported having suffered from nightmares in the previous six months, with fewer than one in ten (9.3 %) experiencing episodes of night terrors during the same period.

To be sure, previous research has found that young children who have been neglected in massive eastern European nurseries exhibit early developmental and even hormonal differences compared with their noninstitutionalized peers, but the six - to 12 - year - old children in the new study — many of whom had been in institutions since early childhood and infancy — appeared to be doing relatively well.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved few of these medications for the preschool age group, yet previous studies documented two to threefold increases in psychotropic prescriptions for preschool children between 1991 and 2001.

«We did not find any difference between children who received general anesthesia and spinal anesthesia, suggesting that the previous human studies may have been affected by confounding factors.»

Unlike previous research that only factored spanking and neighborhood conditions separately as precursors of child maltreatment, the current study examined these factors simultaneously, said study lead author Julie Ma, assistant professor of social work at UM - Flint.

Bearing in mind previous research, the main objective of this study was to identify the factors relating to greater emotional and behavioural problems among children, in the context of foster care (behavioural problems, impulsivity and attention deficit).

«In our study, though previous medical histories of the subjects were unknown, 51.3 percent of the children with these infections presented in the outpatient or ambulatory setting.»

The study showed that the vaccine being tested elicited more RSV antibodies in young children than a previous RSV vaccine candidate.

Researchers from Norway and Canada used data from The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and The Medical Birth Registry of Norway to measure the effect of SSRIs and maternal depression on birth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effStudy (MoBa) and The Medical Birth Registry of Norway to measure the effect of SSRIs and maternal depression on birth weight and gestational length, using their sibling design method to differentiate the study from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effstudy from previous studies looking into prenatal SSRI effects.

The beneficial effects of breastfeeding for both mother and child are widely known, but previous studies on the association between breastfeeding and RA have been mixed.