Sentences with phrase «studying child growth»

In the off season Marshall has been attending Michigan State, studying child growth and development.

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A study of vocabulary growth in children from eight months to six years old shows that the size of spoken vocabulary increases from zero words at age eight months to 2,562 words at age six years.

Studies have linked lead to chronic health problems, especially for children, including learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, stunted growth, seizures and even death.

A marital enrichment group, a family camp, a child - study group, a youth fellowship, a preparation for retirement group, a nursery program, a senior citizen club, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, pastoral care in bereavement, parent - child counseling, and the entire spiritual growth and educational thrust of the church — all these are examples of resources which are designed to stimulate the growth of personality toward the realization of each individual's potentialities.

In studies comparing raw and pasteurized human milk, there were fewer infections and better growth in children receiving raw human milk (see Pasteurization Does Harm Real Milk).

Research With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more.

According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.

Studies show that meeting the needs of children is necessary to their normal growth and development.

Her education is focused on nutrition and early childhood studies, making her an expert when it comes to writing about health and children's growth and development.

This study found that rapid early growth did not explain the increased risk of obesity in preschool age children.

Committed to the mission of «fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger,» Free - Range Kids combats our greatest parenting fears with actual stats, studies, and advice to help keep kids safe without hindering their growth.

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.

«Taken together our findings show that EGF is a key factor present in breast milk that prevents the onset of NEC in two ways: EGF prevents intestinal cells from dying while at the same time restoring the cell growth that promotes gut healing,» says study author Misty Good, M.D., a neonatologist at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

The Lancet studies also estimate that US$ 300 billion in economic growth is lost every year due to the unrealized mental capacity of children who are not exclusively breastfed as infants.

Their education is not limited to basic breastfeeding help, but also includes the health sciences such as biology, human anatomy and physiology, infant / child growth and development, nutrition, clinical research, intensive lactation studies, and basic life support (among many others).

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

Studies in developing countries demonstrate that continued, frequent breastfeeding is associated with greater linear growth and further protects child health by delaying maternal fertility postpartum and reducing the child's risk of morbidity and mortality.

She writes, «Some studies of children in Asia and Africa have found a positive relationship between prolonged breastfeeding and growth, with a decrease in the incidence of malnutrition.4 - 6 Other research has reported a negative association between prolonged breastfeeding and growth, resulting in lower nutritional status.7, 8»

Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

• Review a variety of evidence - based research studies on the importance of touch for healthy growth and development of infant or child.

Data from the World Health Organization's 15 - year study of 8,500 children from six countries was used to create the new growth charts.

If you are able to breastfeed your premature baby, there's some good news: According to a new study of 77 preterm infants in the NICU at St. Louis Children's Hospital, preemies who were fed mostly breast milk during the first month of life appear to have more robust brain growth than those who were not.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Years ago, children were warned that smoking could stunt their growth, but now a major study by an international team including the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University and the University of Edinburgh shows new evidence that long - term smoking could cause thinning of the brain's cortex.

Studies in rodents suggest that stress during pregnancy inhibits neural growth, while the children of women who lived in war zones during pregnancy have a higher risk of developing schizophrenia.

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.

Growth of the child's spine and brain lagged, a new study finds.

Just before the teenage years, «the rate of growth for many skills kind of slows down,» says Deborah Waber, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School's Children's Hospital Boston and the lead author of a paper that reports the results of the behavioral component of the NIH Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Study of Normal Brain Development.

In an earlier study, Brady and Warren found that vocabulary growth in children with FXS was linked to mothers who displayed greater early and sustained responsivity up until their children reached the age of nine.

Most of the studies they analysed looked at children's growth rates.

«Health, emotional and cognitive function, and physical growth were no worse for institution - living [children],» the study authors report in a new paper published online Thursday in the journal PLoS ONE.

The small number of patients and the lack of controls means that the study is not definitive, but it casts significant doubt on the effectiveness of the hormone in children who make normal levels of growth hormone, he says.

In preliminary results from a study funded by Genentech on 36 healthy children, growth hormone is shown to add 4 centimetres to the final height of boys and 8.1 centimetres to the height of girls.

In particular, he criticises the study's lack of controls — children who received no hormone and whose growth could be compared with that of the treated group.

That study included sophisticated bone and growth measurements during annual visits for up to seven years in over 2000 healthy children, adolescents and young during 2002 to 2010.

Yet, few studies have examined parents» mental health and personal growth, especially in black and Hispanic parents, following their child's death in the NICU or PICU.

Researchers from the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and collaborators conducted a longitudinal study with a racially and ethnically diverse sample to look at the relationships between spiritual and religious coping strategies, and grief, mental health, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and personal growth for parents at one and three months following the death of their child in a NICU or PICU.

A 2014 study that included 163,820 children between the ages of three and 18 showed that those taking stimulants to treat their ADHD had slower rates of growth from early childhood to the middle years compared with control subjects who had no history of ADHD or stimulant use.

«Our study does not imply that economic development is not important in a general sense but cautions policymakers about relying solely on the trickle - down effects of economic growth on child nutrition,» said Sebastian Vollmer, assistant professor of development economics at the University of Göttingen, adjunct assistant professor of global health at HSPH, and lead author of the study.

A large study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries finds that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world's poorest children.

In a retrospective cohort study, Kim and co-authors, all of Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, investigated the weight - growth trajectory and the protective effect of breastfeeding for obesity in children.

«Other studies have shown that fructose and artificial sweeteners are particularly damaging during critical periods of growth and development in children.

Children who live in «smart growth» neighborhoods — developments that are designed to increase walkability and have more parks and green space areas — get 46 percent more moderate or vigorous physical activity than kids who live in conventional neighborhoods, finds a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

«This shows we didn't simply stretch the esophagus — it lengthened through cell growth,» says Pierre Dupont, PhD, the study's senior investigator and Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Boston Children's.

Paediatric neurologist Nico Dosenbach at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, who was not involved in the study, compares it to the children's growth chart used by clinicians.

A study led by Dr. Bing Hu at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and involving other researchers from China and Switzerland, suggests for the first time that the use of local anaesthetic may affect tooth cell growth and the development of children's teeth.

Leda Chatzi, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Crete, Greece, and coauthors analyzed data from 26,184 pregnant women and their children in European and U.S studies to examine associations with maternal fish intake and childhood growth and overweight / obesity.

«Our study begins to fill this research gap but further study is needed, especially as children enter their teens, to gauge whether these growth deficits are transitory or lasting.»

He currently serves as the center PI for the National Standards for Fetal Growth study as well as the PI for the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.

In fact, studies have shown that when fed the exact same diet, mice injected with gut microbes from malnourished children exhibited reduced growth when compared to mice that were given microbes from healthy children.