Sentences with phrase «with childhood leukemia»

Speaking of trouble, I once read that parents of kids with childhood leukemia suffer more posttraumatic stress disorders and recurring nightmares than the kids themselves do.

It found that a breastfeeding duration of less than a month was not significantly associated with childhood leukemia when compared with breastfeeding duration of 6 months or more (OR, 1.2; 95 % CI, 0.9 - 1.6).

Not exact matches

• A high quality case control study in Northern California found that exposure to paternal preconception smoking alone (as well as in combination with postnatal passive smoking) is highly likely to be important in the risk of childhood leukemia (Chang et al, 2006).

We found that a history of breastfeeding was associated with a reduction in the risk of acute otitis media, non-specific gastroenteritis, severe lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, asthma (young children), obesity, type 1 and 2 diabetes, childhood leukemia, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and necrotizing enterocolitis.

Health risks associated with formula feeding over the long term include increased incidence of infectious morbidity, childhood obesity, both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

«Health outcomes differ substantially for mothers and infants who formula feed compared to those that breastfeed... For infants, not being breastfed [and being formula fed instead,] is associated with an increased incidence of infectious morbidity, including otitis media [ear infections], gastroenteritis, and pneumonia, as well as elevated risks of childhood obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes, leukemia and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).»

These studies are at risk for selection bias both of cases and of control individuals and their results might be influenced by potential confounders such as other health behaviors that may be independently associated both with breastfeeding and childhood leukemia risk, although this is of course not limited to case - control studies.

With the exception of otitis media and childhood leukemia, each of these conditions has a documented black / white health disparity, with higher rates observed among black (vs. white) children (16 — With the exception of otitis media and childhood leukemia, each of these conditions has a documented black / white health disparity, with higher rates observed among black (vs. white) children (16 — with higher rates observed among black (vs. white) children (16 — 23).

A separate meta - analysis of 15 studies indicated that ever breastfed compared with never breastfed was associated with a 9 % lower risk for childhood leukemia (odds ratio, 0.91; 95 % CI, 0.80 - 1.04), although the definition of never breastfed differed between studies.

Twelve studies, contributing 7596 childhood leukemia cases, were included in the analysis of breastfeeding and childhood leukemia and the authors found a moderate effect of between - study heterogeneity that was eliminated when they removed the study by Smulevich et al. 17 The calculated pooled OR of the 12 studies indicated a statistically significant inverse association between ever breastfed compared with never breastfed and childhood leukemia (OR, 0.87; 95 % CI, 0.77 - 0.99).

Because there are discernable differences in childhood leukemia rates and breastfeeding rates between developed countries with a Western lifestyle and other countries, an analysis was conducted including only the 12 studies18 - 25,37,38,40,42 led in developed countries.

In this meta - analysis of published (1995 - 2011) case - control studies examining the relationship between breastfeeding and childhood leukemia, all analyses, except the subanalysis for AML alone, which was not statistically significant, showed that being breastfed for at least 6 months compared with less than that or not at all was significantly associated with a 14 % to 20 % lower risk for childhood leukemia, with a 20 % lower risk when all selected 17 studies were included in the analysis.

The UK Childhood Cancer Study investigators23 published in 2001 a study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1.00).

The separate analysis of these 4 studies indicated a statistically significant inverse association between any breastfeeding for 6 months or more compared with a shorter duration and childhood leukemia (OR, 0.84; 95 % CI, 0.75 - 0.94).

This analysis including 7 studies20,23,25,37 - 39, 42 showed that any breastfeeding for more than 6 months compared with a shorter duration was associated with a 17 % decreased risk for childhood leukemia (OR, 0.83; 95 % CI, 0.72 - 0.96).

Ever breastfeeding compared with never breastfeeding is associated with a 9 % lower risk for childhood leukemia (odds ratio, 0.91; 95 % CI, 0.80 - 1.04).

61 The distinction between exclusive breastfeeding and partial breastfeeding in the analyses of the association between breastfeeding and the risk for childhood leukemia is essential given that the addition of infant formula, together with breast milk or instead of it, changes the infant's gut microbiota, affecting the immunology of the infant.62, 63 Thus, misclassification might weaken the association between breastfeeding and lower risk for childhood leukemia.

One of those early patients was a young girl named Emily Whitehead who arrived in June's clinic, «on death's door,» with an aggressive form of relapsed childhood leukemia.

Summers and the research team, led by Dr. Mike Jensen at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroy cancer.

There's growing concern among researchers that public wariness about the newborn screening program will create a backlash — with parents declining to screen their kids (who may end up much sicker because their disease wasn't caught early), and with the spots no longer made available for valuable pediatrics research, such as tracing the origins of childhood leukemia.

«High exposure to benzene during pregnancy is associated with low birth weight, an increased risk of childhood leukemia and a greater incidence of birth defects such as spina bifida,» said Caron - Beaudoin.

Most childhood leukemias have very high remission rates, with some up to 90 % (remission means there is no longer evidence of cancer cells in the body).

Prevalence and characteristics of metabolic syndrome in adults from the French childhood leukemia survivors» cohort: a comparison with controls from the French population

That evidence, combined with the present study, suggests that childhood leukemia may regularly be initiated before birth,» said Wiemels.

The researchers conducted their study by using a highly sensitive probe to scrutinize minute numbers of leukemia cells in blood samples previously collected from newborns who during childhood were diagnosed with leukemia.

«The use of 15 - mg / kg ATLG was associated with statistically improved event - free survival in the subgroups of children with acute leukemia or with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which represents the more frequent indication for an allograft in hematologic malignancies of childhood.»

In addition, we have access to new agent trials through the Therapeutic Advances in Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma (TACL) consortium, and we offer CAR T - cell therapy for eligible children with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemiLeukemia and Lymphoma (TACL) consortium, and we offer CAR T - cell therapy for eligible children with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemialeukemia (ALL).

We know cured meat increases cancer risk — childhood leukemia, for example — yet, higher intake of vegetables is associated with a reduced risk.

The pilot study observed children who have been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia — the most commonly diagnosed childhood cancer.

The patient population for the pilot will be children aged 3 through 11 years who are newly diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia — the most commonly - diagnosed childhood cancer — or who have been in treatment for less than 12 months.

The EPHX1 rs1051740 Polymorphism Is Associated with Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Korean Population