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 Infant Information - December 2, 2008
| Infant children of parents who are habitual snorers are themselves at increased risk for frequent snoring, a new study reveals. The study also found that young children diagnosed with atopy- a tendency to develop allergies and asthma, are also prone to frequent snoring. The findings are important because so-called "sleep-disordered breathing" among children has been previously associated with the development of learning disabilities, heart disease, and metabolic disorders | | U.S.-born Asian-Indian women are more likely than their Mexican-American peers to deliver low birth weight infants despite environmental and biological factors that typically would signal opposite findings. This trend has given rise to researchers to study this group who has fewer risk factors and also suggests that physicians should consider their patients' ethnic backgrounds when planning their care | | Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb, The Associated Press reports. The infant, named Nazia, was in critical condition following the two-hour operation at The Children's Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in the capital, Islamabad | | A new study finds that the average length of pregnancy in the United States is now 39 weeks, a week shorter than the traditional definition of a full-term pregnancy. In 2002, 25 percent of all singleton babies were born full term at 39 weeks, while births at or after 40 weeks decreased by nearly 21 percent. During the 10-year study, there was also a 12 percent increase in births occurring between 34 and 36 weeks, referred to as "late preterm births | | New York, New York (AHN)-Investigators with the Women and Infants Transmission Study Group report that early diagnosis of an AIDS-defining illness in children, who acquired HIV infection from their mothers, is associated with impaired cognitive development | |
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