by Claire McCarthy on March 9, 2010
Dr. Claire McCarthy is a primary care physician and the Medical Communications Editor at Boston Children’s Hospital. Along with her blogs here on Thriving, you can find her at the Huffington Post and Boston.com. Follow her on Twitter @drClaire.
If your adolescent child has been exposed to secondhand smoke, he may already have heart disease. That’s the message of a new study published this month.
Researchers in Finland followed around 500 children from age 8 to 13. Every year they did a blood test that measured their exposure to tobacco smoke in the previous few days. At age 13, they looked at the arteries of the children using ultrasound, to measure their thickness and health, and measured their levels of Apolipoprotein B, which gives a direct measure of the lipoproteins that can cause heart disease. Full story »
by Childrens Hospital Boston staff on January 17, 2010
by Childrens Hospital Boston staff on January 11, 2010
by Lawrence Rhein, MD, director of the Center for Healthy Infant Lung Development
Most people know that smoking is bad for the people who light up a cigarette and inhale. And most non-smokers know that inhaling someone else’s smoke can be unpleasant. But is it dangerous?
High in toxic chemicals, secondhand smoke causes or contributes to many health problems, including heart disease, cancer, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). A new study, out this month, adds to the growing evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke is especially concerning for children. Full story »
by Childrens Hospital Boston staff on November 21, 2009
Other stories we’ve been reading:
A new study says your child is more likely to become a criminal if they don’t have good fear conditioning. Pediatricians are ordering Viagra for children with heart defects.
A new report says too much food, not a lack of exercise, is to blame for teen obesity, and researchers find that toddlers and obese kids suffer the most from secondhand smoke.
More kids’ lives are saved as the cost of child vaccines fall and Santa says he wants his H1N1 vaccine too.
by Annie Cardi on August 28, 2009
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