Mothers' lifestyles are linked to explosion in premature births
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AN "ALARMING increase" in the premature births is being recorded across Europe and doctors believe that women's lifestyles may be to blame.
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Professor Andrew Shennan and Dr Susan Bewley, from St Thomas's Hospital in London, said research showed that even among a group of low-risk European women aged 20 to 40, there had been a 51 per cent increase in early delivery in the past decade. "This is alarming, and implies that clinicians have failed to have any impact on reducing rates," they said.
"Untangling the underlying causative factors may be difficult, but general public-health measures to do with smoking, teenage and middle-aged pregnancy, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, obesity and social inequities are a good start."
The research also linked fertility treatment, multiple pregnancies and elective, early deliveries to the increase in early births. The researchers said that rising rates of pre-term births had "worrying" implications for doctors, health economists, teachers, parents and the children themselves.
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Charlotte Davies, of the baby charity Tommy's, said: "We know that there are more premature babies being born now than in the past. More premature babies are also now being kept alive than were previously. But this has long-term health implications because these children often suffer problems when they are much older. Not only is there the stress and strain at the point of birth and during the time in special care, but there are the long-term effects on society and the health costs as well."
Ms Davies said more work was urgently needed to tackle the problem. "The more we know about the causes, the more we can do to prevent premature births," she said. "We know there are some lifestyle factors that put people at a higher risk, with smoking being the biggest preventable cause of premature births."
Not ten days ago I posted - A lost generation - with the following quote and pronouncement in regard to what is to be done about the increase in diabetes etc. This statement is also pertinent to the problem of premature babies!
New figures were released yesterday at a diabetes summit showing the number of type 2 diabetics has doubled in five years, numbers of children with type 2 diabetes was increasing at between 5 and 10 per cent a year and juvenile type 1 diabetes is rising by 3 per cent a year.
So what are they calling for? Well, government intervention of course! But why? It's too late for these youngsters because these illness are genomically carried through from their parents and the lifestyle they were introduced to while they were youngsters. Nothing can be done for today's kids.
As long as government food agencies allow the wholesale distribution of poisons, eg Aspartame, and salt laden snacks into the food chain then the population do not stand a chance of eradicating diseases such as diabetes in kids.
Today's kids are destined to suffer because their grandparents allowed their parents to indulge in such things as snack foods, soft drinks etc at an early age. The hippy attitude of "let them eat cake whenever they want", has ruined this generation and probably the next.
When will they ever learn?
AN "ALARMING increase" in the premature births is being recorded across Europe and doctors believe that women's lifestyles may be to blame.
.
.
Professor Andrew Shennan and Dr Susan Bewley, from St Thomas's Hospital in London, said research showed that even among a group of low-risk European women aged 20 to 40, there had been a 51 per cent increase in early delivery in the past decade. "This is alarming, and implies that clinicians have failed to have any impact on reducing rates," they said.
"Untangling the underlying causative factors may be difficult, but general public-health measures to do with smoking, teenage and middle-aged pregnancy, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, obesity and social inequities are a good start."
The research also linked fertility treatment, multiple pregnancies and elective, early deliveries to the increase in early births. The researchers said that rising rates of pre-term births had "worrying" implications for doctors, health economists, teachers, parents and the children themselves.
.
.
Charlotte Davies, of the baby charity Tommy's, said: "We know that there are more premature babies being born now than in the past. More premature babies are also now being kept alive than were previously. But this has long-term health implications because these children often suffer problems when they are much older. Not only is there the stress and strain at the point of birth and during the time in special care, but there are the long-term effects on society and the health costs as well."
Ms Davies said more work was urgently needed to tackle the problem. "The more we know about the causes, the more we can do to prevent premature births," she said. "We know there are some lifestyle factors that put people at a higher risk, with smoking being the biggest preventable cause of premature births."
Not ten days ago I posted - A lost generation - with the following quote and pronouncement in regard to what is to be done about the increase in diabetes etc. This statement is also pertinent to the problem of premature babies!
New figures were released yesterday at a diabetes summit showing the number of type 2 diabetics has doubled in five years, numbers of children with type 2 diabetes was increasing at between 5 and 10 per cent a year and juvenile type 1 diabetes is rising by 3 per cent a year.
So what are they calling for? Well, government intervention of course! But why? It's too late for these youngsters because these illness are genomically carried through from their parents and the lifestyle they were introduced to while they were youngsters. Nothing can be done for today's kids.
As long as government food agencies allow the wholesale distribution of poisons, eg Aspartame, and salt laden snacks into the food chain then the population do not stand a chance of eradicating diseases such as diabetes in kids.
Today's kids are destined to suffer because their grandparents allowed their parents to indulge in such things as snack foods, soft drinks etc at an early age. The hippy attitude of "let them eat cake whenever they want", has ruined this generation and probably the next.
When will they ever learn?
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