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Typically, people with higher BMIs have a greater likelihood of developing conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and type 2 diabetes. But many factors — including your family history, eating habits and activity level — also influence your overall health.
Kanpur: Does your kid snore while sleeping at night? If the answer is `yes', you should immediately consult a doctor, as it can be a symptom of sleep breathing disorder, a more serious underlying problem that can affect your child's physical and mental well-being, an expert revealed during the third day of IMA CGP.
Dr JC Suri from New Delhi, said that sleep breathing disorder is most common among kids between 2-18 years of age. "This problem is seen in about 5% of children between this age group. The biggest reason being excessive growth of tonsils and adenoid in the back of the throat. Major symptoms of the disease include snoring, irregular sleep, increased aggressiveness, change in attitude etc.
Children who are chronically sleep deprived may be prone to problems with attention behavior, learning and mood. If not treated on time the disorder can take shape of chronic heart disease. With the advancement of science today we have developed ways to cure the disease without operating the child," the doctor said. Dr Anant Kumar, a urologist from New Delhi,speaking on the occasion said that Kidney stone has become one of the major concerns among youngsters today. He said the changing lifestyle and environmental conditions are responsible the for increasing cases of Kidney stones.
"The problem is common in all age groups. It is wrong to say that the only reason is excessive eating of junk food. Our over all lifestyle is responsible for the alarming situation. Kidney is a support system of the human body. Any damage to any part of the body may hamper the working of the kidney," he said.
"The main symptoms of kidney disease include, swelling of legs and area under the eyes, rise in blood pressure, lethargy etc. Person with these symptoms should be immediately taken to a doctor, followed by a urine test. Every person after the age of 50 years must go for regular checkups." Dr Kumar added.
In the third session of the day, Dr. Anupam Sachdeva, a senior doctor in Sri Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, talked about common hematological problems in children. He told how the blood test can be helpful for identification of different diseases. He said that blood cancer in kids is now treatable and to a large extent even curable.
Sleep difficulties may be linked to faster rates of decline in brain volume, according to a study published in the September 3, 2014, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Sleep has been proposed to be “the brain’s housekeeper,” serving to repair and restore the brain.
The study included 147 adults between 20 and 84 years old. Researchers examined the link between sleep difficulties, such as having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep at night, and brain volume.
All participants underwent two MRI brain scans, an average of 3.5 years apart, before completing a questionnaire about their sleep habits.
A total of 35% of the participants met the criteria for poor sleep quality, scoring an average of 8.5 out of 21 points on the sleep assessment. The assessment looked at how long people slept, how long it took them to fall asleep at night, use of sleeping medications, and other factors.
The study found that sleep difficulties were linked with a more rapid decline in brain volume over the course of the study in widespread brain regions, including within frontal, temporal, and parietal areas.
The results were more pronounced in people over 60 years old.
“It is not yet known whether poor sleep quality is a cause or consequence of changes in brain structure,” says study author Claire E. Sexton, DPhil, with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, in a release. “There are effective treatments for sleep problems, so future research needs to test whether improving people’s quality of sleep could slow the rate of brain volume loss. If that is the case, improving people’s sleep habits could be an important way to improve brain health.”
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock
Obesity is a factor in developing sleep apnea. Let's start early in a attempt to prevent our kids from developing this condition.
Efforts to improve what children eat should begin before they even learn to walk, a series of nutritional studies published on Tuesday has found. Taken together, the data indicate that infant feeding patterns persist far longer than has been appreciated.
“Our early taste preferences, particularly for fruits and vegetables, and on the flip side for sugary beverages, are lasting,” said Dr. Elsie M. Taveras, chief of the division of general pediatrics at MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston, who was not involved in the new research.
“These studies are suggesting that in terms of diet quality, the die might be cast in the first year,” she added.
The package of 11 studies was published in the journal Pediatrics and was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, among others. Investigators tracked the diets of roughly 1,500 6-year-olds, comparing their eating patterns to those observed in a study that followed them until age 1.
Previous research has shown that taste preferences are developed in infancy. Yet until now it was unclear how infant diets bear on what children prefer to consume years later, once in school.
Women breastfed their children outside City Hall in New York last month during a rally to support breastfeeding in public. Research has shown that breast-fed infants are more accepting of new foods than babies who drank the same-tasting formula day after day. Credit Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
As it turns out, “when infants had infrequent consumption of fruits and vegetables, they also had infrequent consumption at 6,” said Kelley Scanlon, an epidemiologist at the C.D.C. and the senior author of a few of the new studies.
Dr. Scanlon and her colleagues suggested that it is best to interest children in fruits and vegetables by late infancy — roughly between 10 and 12 months old.
Their analysis took into account factors that could skew results, like race, family income and breast-feeding. Other factors may play a role in establishing a child’s diet patterns, such as whether a child fears trying new foods, said Catherine A. Forestell, an associate professor of psychology at the College of William and Mary, who researches eating habits from infancy to adulthood.
Still, Dr. Scanlon’s finding emphasizes the importance of exposing infants to a variety of fruits and vegetables as they make the transition to table food.
“I do believe in the importance of the early experience,” said Dr. Forestell, adding that it is crucial for parents “not to be deterred by an initial negative response.”
In a 2007 study by Dr. Forestell, infants who were offered green beans for the first time squinted and wrinkled their noses. But these young critics willingly opened their mouths to try another spoonful if parents persisted, she said.
Another study in the new series found that babies who consumed any amount of sugar-sweetened beverages were two times more likely to drink them at least once daily at age 6. A third study found that infants ages 10 to 12 months who were given sugar-sweetened beverages more than three times a week were twice as likely to be obese at age 6 than those who consumed none as infants.
It is not clear what impact breast-feeding might have on a child’s later diet. A mother’s eating habits are reflected in the taste of her breast milk, providing a “flavor bridge” that eases her baby’s transition to the foods she ate regularly while nursing.
Breast-fed infants are more accepting of new foods than babies who drank the same-tasting formula day after day, research has shown. A C.D.C. study in the new series found that children who were breast-fed were more likely to consume water (versus sugar-sweetened beverages), fruits and vegetables at age 6.
Cria Perrine, an epidemiologist at the C.D.C., and her co-authors concluded one additional perk of breast-feeding may be an “improved child diet.”
Recent research that took into account economic and cultural variables has thrown into question whether breast-feeding protects against obesity into the preteen years, Dr. Taveras said. But a strong relationship between breast-feeding and protection against obesity up to age 3 has been documented. Dr. Perrine’s study suggests one way breast-feeding might protect against early obesity, Dr. Taveras said.
Some experts argue that parents lack consistent guidance on how to interest infants in unfamiliar, often bitter vegetables. The task is made tougher by the fact that infants do not need repeat exposures to become enamored of sweet and salty foods.
“We don’t do a very good job of teaching parents about good nutrition in infancy,” said Deanna Hoelscher, the director of a center for healthy living at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.
In March, a research review published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition called for separate dietary guidelines for infants and toddlers. Currently, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans makes recommendations only for ages 2 and older.
It may not be obvious to parents, for example, that noncarbonated drinks with added sugar, like cranberry juice cocktail, should be avoided in the first year. Dr. Sohyun Park, a C.D.C. epidemiologist and the lead author of a study in the journal, noted that 27 percent of the infants studied had been fed sugar-sweetened beverages.
Indeed, nearly 9 percent were fed them before 6 months of age. Yet the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends only breast milk for the first six months or, alternatively, formula.
With sleep drunkenness in the news, ABC 7 reports on how getting too much sleep can contribute to the problem.
For years medical professionals have warned of the hazards of not getting enough sleep. But getting too many Z’s may be responsible for you feeling dazed, disoriented and confused…and possibly perceived by others as a little drunk.
“If you’re normally sleeping eight hours or so, then suddenly decide, ‘oh, I’m going to have a really nice weekend’ and you sleep eleven or twelve hours, you may wake up so groggy that you don’t really wake up for twenty or thirty minutes,” says Dr. Matthew Edlund at Center for Circadian Medicine.
This happens to a lot of people, he says. “That’s when people wake up, but they really don’t wake up. They’re still in between sleep and awake.”
Most of the time, he says people just feel really, really groggy. “Like this lead pipe hanging over your back, and they just hardly can move.”
SARASOTA, Fla. -- According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, about 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders. Here are the signs and symptoms of one disorder called Sleep Drunkenness.
For years medical professionals have warned of the hazards of not getting enough sleep. But getting too many Z's may be responsible for you feeling dazed, disoriented and confused…and possibly perceived by others as a little drunk.
“If you're normally sleeping eight hours or so, then suddenly decide, ‘oh, I'm going to have a really nice weekend’ and you sleep eleven or twelve hours, you may wake up so groggy that you don't really wake up for twenty or thirty minutes,” says Dr. Matthew Edlund at Center for Circadian Medicine.
This happens to a lot of people, he says. “That’s when people wake up, but they really don't wake up. They're still in between sleep and awake.”
Most of the time, he says people just feel really, really groggy. “Like this lead pipe hanging over your back, and they just hardly can move.”
This is how you may appear to others. “You'll feel not with it, people looking at you might think that you're drunk, hungover, some people even think that you're having a seizure.”
Oversleep affects more than your clarity. “If you sleep a very long period of time, your appetite may change, that may contribute to your grogginess.”
But, Sleep Drunkenness doesn't just affect those who oversleep.
“Sleep Drunkenness is both sleep deprivation and too much sleep.” Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery Dr. Jeffrey Sell says those with sleep disorders of any kind will have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease. “In a study of thousands of people in Europe, they looked at 19% of them reported having some kind of sleep problem. And of much higher than usual incidence of cardiovascular disease, as well as obesity as well as hyperlipidemias.”
Hazards of Sleep Drunkenness may not only affect you. “It can cause a danger, especially if you're going to try and get behind a vehicle.”
Research at the University of Miami aims to learn what makes sleep apnea a risk factor for strokes, the Miami Herald reports.
A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted, depriving the brain of oxygen. A stroke may be caused by a narrowed or blocked artery supplying blood to the brain or by a burst blood vessel in the brain.
The interruptions in breathing that characterize sleep apnea lead to low oxygen levels in the blood and brain.
“Sleep apnea triggers a series of responses in the body as a result of low oxygen levels,” Ramos said. “One of them is hypertension — an increase in blood pressure.”
Hypertension associated with sleep apnea occurs because of the strain that low oxygen levels in the blood and brain place on the cardiovascular system. As high blood pressure is an independent risk for stroke, sleep apnea becomes an indirect cause of stroke.
Sleep apnea is most likely to lead to ischemic strokes, the ones caused by an interruption of blood supply to the brain.
