Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Occurs More Frequently In Boys Than In Girls

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Occurs More Frequently In Boys Than In Girls.
Experts have covet known that swift infant passing syndrome (SIDS) is more common in boys than girls, but a new study suggests that gender differences in levels of wakefulness are not to blame. In fact, the researchers found that infant boys are more simply aroused from nap than girls. "Since the incidence of SIDS is increased in male infants, we had expected the virile infants to be more difficult to arouse from sleep and to have fewer full arousals than the female infants," major author Rosemary SC Horne, a senior research fellow at the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, said in a flash release.

And "In fact, we found the opposite when infants were younger at two to four weeks of age, and we were surprised to judge that any differences between the male and female infants were resolved by the discretion of two to three months, which is the most vulnerable age for SIDS". About 60 percent of infants who give up the ghost from SIDS are male.

In the study, published in the Aug 1, 2010 issuance of Sleep, the Australian team tested 50 healthy infants by blowing a puffery of air into their nostrils in order to wake them from sleep. At two to four weeks of age, the pertinacity of the puff of air needed to arouse the infants was much lower in males than in females. This reformation was no longer significant by ages two to three months, when SIDS risk peaks.

With Each Passing Day The World Becomes More Obese Kids

With Each Passing Day The World Becomes More Obese Kids.
American kids are attractive obese, or nearly so, at an increasingly brood age, with about one-third of them falling into that classification by the time they're 9 months old, researchers have found. There are some caveats about the research, however. The infants were not planned recently: They were born about a decade ago. And it's not perceptibly how excess weight in babies may affect their health later in their lives.

The bookwork found no guarantee that a baby who's overweight at 9 months will stay slack when his or her second birthday rolls around. Still, the study - in the January-February 2011 arise of the American Journal of Health Promotion - does present a picture of babies and infants who are carrying around a lot of collateral weight.

The findings also suggest that small changes in an infant's diet can make a big difference, said Dr Wendy Slusser, medical headman of a children's weight program at Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles. For criterion "if you don't give your kid liquid and have them eat the fruit instead, suddenly there's 150 calories less a day that can style a big difference in weight gain over a long term".

The researchers examined federal data about 16400 children in the United States who were born in 2001. After adjusting the statistics so they wouldn't be thrown off by such factors as drugged numbers of unnamed kinds of kids, the study authors found that 17 percent of 9-month-olds were tubby and 15 percent were at risk for obesity, for a total of 32 percent.