Role of environment in child deaths in Europe

Pollution, dirty water, poor sanitation and toxins is a cause of one of three children in Europe died. Thus the conclusion of the study presented by Dr Giorgio Tamburlini from the Institute of Child Health in Trieste (Italy) to the world Health Organization (WHO).

According to a report published by WHO, the pollution from coal-burning smoke and wood is a killer of children the number one in Central Asia and Turkey. While in Europe, the death of many coming from the traffic conditions caused a number of incidents that made the children suffered injuries.

"One of the three children who died in some European countries can be called due to environmental factors," said Dr Giorgio Tamburlini, the leader of this research. WHO report calls 100,000 children died and another 6 million lives each year at risk. Victims came from newborns to 19-year-old in 52 countries in Western Europe and Eastern Europe, including fractions of a number of countries the Soviet Union.

"This report is the first estimate of health impacts on children and adolescents due to environmental factors in several countries in Europe," he said, reports published in the Lancet medical journal has become one of the discussion in the meeting of officials of the European Environment and Health that was held on June 23 - 25 ago in Budapest, Romania.

No doubt the growing influence of environmental factors to the child. They are threatened because of where they live and play very badly from the environment. Although a number of causes of deaths vary widely, but the main factors such as pollution, sanitation and clean water support is needed to protect them from injury risk factors.

Injury included traffic accidents, falls, violence or suicide are nearly 75,000 teens across the European region in 2001 ago. Approximately 23,000 children died during the four years since the disease pneumonia and some other diseases because of air pollution.

The low sanitation made 13,000 children die from diarrhea. "Intervention needs to be done to reduce the increase of children affected by this," said Dr Giorgio. The report also mentions that a number of areas that need to be the main target is children who live on the streets and those who threatened a number of high-risk factors that environment.

Dr Giorgio Tamburlini study also said the result could be a warning that some developing countries to help children and teenagers out of a number of risks that.


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Avoid Stroke with Aspirin

Gender differences appeared to take a different impact on the use of a drug. For example, that aspirin can protect a woman's stroke, but not to avoid the risk of heart attack affected. Suggestions of use of aspirin for women presented by Dr. Paul Ridker.

Benefits of aspirin are able to protect a woman's risk of stroke, in fact can not be used on the type of their opponent, the man. While aspirin is recommended by many doctors to be used on men, women and people with heart disease.

Doctors from Harvard Medical School, as well as researchers from `Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston` reminded that this is very dangerous to generalize on the impact of the use of aspirin in men and women. "We already know the answers to that issue."

Studies carried out by `The Women's Health Study` before doing the test on the use of aspirin and vitamin E in women. The results of vitamin E does not provide a solution that both supplements for women because it is not enough help, but even harmful.

Nearly 40,000 women aged 45 years has been to get as much as 100 milligrams of aspirin was given in random order. After 10 years of aspirin users showed that they have the opportunity 17% lower stroke affected most likely because aspirin is able to prevent the occurrence of thrombosis.

Suspected stroke occurs because the flow of blood to the brain is not smooth because of thrombosis. While women aged over 65 years have a higher benefit with aspirin consumed where they can be exposed to the risk of stroke to 34%. Other important note is the protection of aspirin can effectively occur in the female non-smokers and former smokers.

However, this benefit does not apply to women who use hormones after the menopause period. Results of research that Dr. Paul is very good because the women have a greater chance of stroke rather than infected heart attack, a different thing going on the man who has exposed a high risk of stroke rather than heart attacks.


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Premature infants may experience difficulty in Learning

Almost half of babies who are born premature will have problems such as disability and learning difficulties in the future. 'The Epicure' conduct studies on 1200 infants born before 26 weeks from 38 weeks, which should be passed by a mother during pregnancy.
Still according to them, after half of these premature babies can have difficulties learning, they also estimated to need glasses. When the premature baby is growing up, then at the age of 6 years the risk will be increased two-fold.
The Epicure study was based on monitoring the baby who was born in the UK and Ireland in 1995, especially the baby who was born before the pregnancy enters the weekend to-26. Epicure The publication states that they give with the aim that parents can understand the issues that will be faced by their children who are born premature.
For male babies exposed to risk in a number of issues that will be 2.4 times higher babies instead of women. However, researchers did not explain the team what the cause of the inability of risk accepted by the baby is premature. Research leader, Neil Marlow, professor University of Nottingham hope the doctors and parents can be ready when the occurrence of premature babies.
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Research: suicide is determined from birth

Believe it or not, someone to do the action suicide was already determined when the newborn baby was born the first time. This is revealed in the results of research conducted by a team of Swedish leaders Dr Danuta Wasserman who do research on the 700,000 young people.
From the results of the research Dr Danuta Wasserman is known that body weight when the baby is born are determines risk of suicide later. Babies born under average have twice the risk to make a higher suicide compared with infants born to normal. The risk becomes higher if the birth mother who is still a teenager.
Results of research Dr Danuta Wasserman, which is `the researchers from the National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention` (Stockholm) is published by The Lancet medical journal. According to Dr Danuta Wasserman, genetic factors portray important position in this case suicide.
Research conducted with the data from all infants born between 1973 and 1980 with a tendency to see the action suicide that occurred at the age of 10 years to 26 years. Overall level of suicide that occurred in Sweden in 1999 to around 20 people per 100.00 population. According to research, babies born have less body weight 2 kg will be hit twice the risk experienced higher suicide compared with infants who were born normal 3:25 kg - 3.75 kg.
Meanwhile, children born of mothers aged under 19 years experience will also be exposed to risk the threat of suicide when compared with mothers aged 20 to 29 years. Instead measure the baby was born at the time they also examined by Dr Danuta Wasserman. According to him, the baby was born less than 47 cm will have a tendency to suicide when compared with babies born with a long 50 or 51 cm.
"Studies that we have do not give a definitive answer about the risk of a suicide," he said. "But at least we found significant relationships between pre-birth as a key factor. I think genetic factors and environmental factors that become very important."
Dr Danuta Wasserman suggested that the mother during pregnancy to maintain good nutrition, including not consuming alcohol and drugs.


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Journal of Medicine: Bad News trigger heart attacks

The impact of bad news a secret that is capable of surprising the heart is able to be solved by a research team from John Hopkins University leaders Ilan Wittstein. As published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Ilan Wittstein said that bad news associated closely with a number of hormone release.
A number of hormones such as adrenalin and other hormones surprised, been able to call someone after a heart surprising to hear bad news or sad.
From the published studies that called that if not properly then it can be defined as a heart attack.
Because the shock caused only a temporary take, especially on weekends only. After conducting research on 19 patients who came to the hospital with symptoms of a heart attack is the same as the researchers did not see that as other symptoms of heart attack patients in the general women's families are not found in the blood stoppage artery generally like the other people with heart attack.
Doctors originally considered as a heart attack found that the collision `` stress hormones are high, especially in the `` adrenalin and noradrenalin `` on patients in their blood. According to the researchers, `` stress hormones can be toxic to the heart and is very effective to be a surprise.
Patients who experience stress hormones also have a high in the brain called the `with` brain natriuretic peptide as well as indications that the normal working heart. Results using the `watchlist` echocardiograms used to measure heart function also showed a unique wave after a patient is declared a heart attack.
In the case of heart attack, a patient can recover the new conditions after a few weeks or weekends. That team researchers from the University of Hopkins does not explain how this `` stress hormones can affect the heart.
They only see the possibility of a liquid chemical that can affect heart rate so that the heart stress load. The team recommends further research be done to the people who have a genetic condition such as this.


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