Posted on 05/23/2006 11:53:56 AM PDT by Moonman62
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with behavior problems in children and pre-teens.
While the study examined 5 to 11 year olds with asthma, the findings most likely could be extrapolated to include children without asthma who "act out" or experience depression and anxiety, according to Kimberly Yolton, Ph.D., a researcher at the Children's Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children's and the study's main author
The study will be presented at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time Sunday, April 30, at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco.
"This study provides further incentive for states to set public health standards to protect children from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke," says Dr. Yolton.
Dr. Yolton examined 225 children and pre-teens exposed to at least five cigarettes a day. On average, the children were exposed to approximately 14 cigarettes a day. The children were enrolled in an asthma intervention study. Dr. Yolton included additional measures to assess child behaviors.
To measure exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, Dr. Yolton measured levels of cotinine in the children's blood. Cotinine is a substance produced when nicotine is broken down by the body and can be measured in blood, urine, saliva and hair. It is considered the best available marker of environmental tobacco smoke exposure.
Dr. Yolton found a relationship between cotinine levels and increases in acting out; increases in holding things in, often manifested by anxiety and depression; increases in behavior problems as rated by parents, and behavior and school problems as rated by teachers; and, decreases in the ability to adapt to behavior problems.
"The greater the exposure to tobacco smoke, the greater the problems these children had," says Dr. Yolton. "Behavior problems in children have increased from 7 to 18 percent over the last 20 years for reasons that are poorly understood. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for child behavior problems."
In the United States, about 25 percent of children are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke in their own homes, yet more than 50 percent of children have detectable levels of cotinine in their blood, according to Dr. Yolton.
Previous studies have found link between tobacco smoke and birth weight, number of infections and other health problems, including asthma exacerbations. In a groundbreaking study in 2002, Dr. Yolton found that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, even at extremely low levels, is associated with decreases in certain cognitive skills, including reading, math, and logic and reasoning, in children and adolescents.
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a 475-bed institution devoted to bringing the world the joy of healthier kids. Cincinnati Children's is dedicated to transforming the way health care is delivered by providing care that is timely, efficient, effective, family-centered, equitable and safe. Cincinnati Children's ranks third nationally among all pediatric centers in research grants from the National Institutes of Health. It is a teaching affiliate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The Cincinnati Children's vision is to be the leader in improving child health. Additional information can be found at www.cincinnatichildrens.org.
I answered the question very well.
I would not imagine to begin to try and take responsibility for . . . . assimilating my answer in an understanding and profitable way.
What were the other factors they researched and considered before they drew their conclusions?
I would not imagine to begin to try and take responsibility for . . . . assimilating my answer in an understanding and profitable way.
We need a borg!:)
Are you of the grossly mistaken assumption (amongst many such) that I'm a relative or close friend of or even know the researchers?
LOL.
Bye, y'all . . .
been . . . interesting.
Actually, I sure didn't think you were a relative of the researchers.
Run.
THERE IS
NO
FREEDOM
WITHOUT
RESPONSIBILITY
I think you took that little tid-bit out of context.
The responsibility I think he spoke of was to keep an active eye on what is going on politically, in your country, so as to avoid the hell he went through. Freedom means standing up and saying NO MORE, regardless of how un-popular your stand is.
Hitler hated tobacco, too, along with meat, and many other things. Cigarettes didn't kill 6 million Jews, Gypsies, and other "undesierables". A government out of control did. And they targeted people just like this.
Government policies have killed more people than about anything else on the planet.
You're funny.......you really are.
If I haven't told you before...I really and truly HATE shopping...........I know, I'm a weird woman.
If I haven't told you before...I really and truly HATE shopping...........I know, I'm a weird woman.
There's no better way to get me tired--in a clothing store I'm out in about 2 minutes.
And no, you're not weird--semi-normal in my book. Besides, who wants to shop for 5 hours when you can be constructive and be on a conservative forum for that long instead? :)
"Those cowpies have become much more enriched in recent years."
I agree. We need to do a "scientific study" on this horrible situation, right away!
I agree. We need to do a "scientific study" on this horrible situation, right away!
What meth-odology do you suggest? Maybe using people who will do what they are told when someone tells them to go eat s--t? :O
Thanks Shelion you said it so much better then I could have.
Better get a mobile lab. It looks like most of your subjects are going to be of the "dump and run" variety.
No it's that the kids are told every day in school about how bad smoking is and to see their parents doing it screws with thier heads. It's the first step in turning the kids against the parents. Then they tell them about sex.
Care to provide it? I doubt it, because it doesn't exist.
The overwhelming majority of the evidence demonstrates that second hand smoke is a nuisance to busybodies such as yourself, and only harms people who are otherwise unhealthy.
Victor Frankel's words are correct........if your health is so fragile that you need to avoid tobacco smoke, stay out of places that allow it. No conservative I know would seek the government to do for them what they can easily do for themselves.
Fabulous.
A statistician with a preconceived notion to "prove".
LOL! Ain't it the truth.
This one is getting pretty ugly. Your pointed wit is needed ping.
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