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Children's Health Could Elderly People Health Risk Prediction
Ohio, the health condition of a child could be a harbinger of health conditions of his parents. When a child has high blood pressure or cholesterol, the parents could also have a high risk of severe diabetes and heart disease.
519 research on family in Ohio found that weight loss, cholesterol and blood pressure in young 12 year old can predict the likelihood of parents affected by heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes for thirty years into the future.
These findings indicate that checks on children could be found the risk of diseases belonging to his parents.
"Risk factors for children, either in the form of cholesterol, triglycerides, high blood pressure, can be a sign of increased risk on his parents," said the researcher, Dr. Charles j. Glueck of Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati as reported by FoxNews, Friday (3/2/2012).
One important reason is because most parents don't do health checks herself regularly, but regularly saw his children to the doctor.
A study reported in the Journal of Pediatrics is analyzing data from 852 persons school students with average age 12 years. Children measured cholesterol levels, blood pressure, triglycerides and weight. After 26 years later, students are measured back with his parents that the average age of 66 years.
As many as 47 percent of parents suffered a heart attack, stroke or need a procedure to clear a heart artery blockages at the end of the study. As much as 37 percent of parents have diabetes.
Overall, the team Glueck discovered that the parents will have the possibility of suffering from heart disease or stroke at the age less than 60 years two times larger if his son has high blood pressure at the age of 12 years.
The possibility of parents having heart disease and blood vessels at any age is also higher when the Cubs had high levels of cholesterol or triglycerides. And when the children are experiencing overweight, chances are his parents affected by diabetes or high blood pressure also rose twofold.
In previous research, the team has found that the results of Glueck tests on children also predicts the risk of children alone for heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure at the age of end of 30 years.
All of that suggests that screening in childhood can help predict risk in the future, both in children and parents.
However, not everyone agrees his children got a lot of medical examination. Standards of health care for children is to check the weight and measure the pressure of the blood. But recently scholars began to recommend cholesterol screening.
In November 2011, the National Institutes of Health in the United States issued a new guide which recommends that children should be checked kolesterolnya levels at the age of 9 to 11 years, and checked again between the ages of 17 to 21 years old. American Academy of Pediatrics also supports this recommendation.
This recommendation is a change from the previous suggestion of experts, i.e. cholesterol checks only for children who are at risk, such as children who have a family history of having diabetes or heart disease.
Some critics question this new guideline. They beriskeras that there is no data that shows that pemeiksaan of cholesterol in children would be beneficial for heart health in the long run.
