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Pregnant women who use mobile phones are 'more likely to have children with behavioural problems', say scientists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=567125&in_page_id=1774
The study found that mothers who used their mobile phone while pregnant were 54 per cent more likely to report their children had behavioural problems (self reporting people find excuses for thier brats behviour)
Pregnant women who use mobile phones are more likely to have children with behavioural problems, a shocking study has found.
Using handsets just two or three times a day is enough to raise the risk of hyperactivity and emotional problems.
Letting children use mobiles before the age of seven also puts them at risk, scientists warn.
The research is the latest in a series of health fears linked to mobile phones and yet another worry for expectant mothers, who have already been warned about drinking, smoking, pesticides, food allergies and stress.
The study follows a finding by the official Russian radiation watchdog that the danger posed by mobile phones is "not much lower than the risk to children's health from tobacco or alcohol".
The UK's Health Protection Agency said the study's findings were unexpected and highlighted the need for caution over mobiles. But it stopped short of telling pregnant women not to use them.
A spokesman said: "Its findings need to be investigated thoroughly. There may be another cause for the effect observed."
The agency has already warned against "excessive" use of mobile phones by children.
The study, the first of its kind in the world, covered more than 13,000 women.
It found that those who used phones while pregnant were 54 per cent more likely to report behavioural problems in their children, including hyperactivity and emotional and relationship difficulties.(is it 54% of 100, or 2000 or is it a 54% increase of a 0.001 chance
Problems were even more likely among children whose mothers had used phones while pregnant and who had used mobiles themselves before the age of seven.
They were 80 per cent more likely to suffer from behavioural difficulties compared to youngsters who had not been exposed to mobile phone use at all.
They were 25 per cent more at risk of emotional problems, 24 per cent more likely to have difficulties relating to other children, 35 per cent more likely to be hyperactive and 49 per cent more likely to have problems with behaviour.
The risks increased with the amount of phone use and potential radiation.
Experts said the results were particularly significant as one of the study's authors has been a leading sceptic over claims that mobile phones were a health risk.
Professor Leeka Kheifets of the University of California, Los Angeles, had previously written that there was no proof of "any adverse health effect".
But she and her three co-authors concluded that there did appear to be an association between mobile phone exposure and behavioural problems.
They warned, however, that there were other possible explanations, including that mothers who were frequently on the phone through pregnancy might continue the pattern after birth, spending less time with their babies.
Previous studies have suggested a link between children being left unattended for long periods and later behavioural problems.
The research, conducted jointly with academics in Aarhus, Denmark, is due to be published in the respected medical journal Epidemiology in July.
Radiation from mobile phones is thought to penetrate only one or two centimetres into the skin and not to reach the unborn child.
But previous studies have shown it can affect levels of melatonin, a sleep- controlling hormone that mothers pass to unborn babies through the placenta
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=567192&in_page_id=1770
Stressed pregnant women are more likely to have children with allergies
Last updated at 01:45am on 19th May 2008
Pregnancy stress is linked to allergies
Women who are stressed in pregnancy, possibly by financial or relationship problems, are more likely to have babies who suffer from asthma and allergies, say researchers.
Findings from a U.S. study suggest babies exposed to stress before birth have an increased tendency to react to allergy triggers such as dust mites.
It is thought the developing immune system of unborn babies can be changed by maternal stress, probably through stress hormones such as cortisol.
The results of the study, at Harvard Medical School, Boston, were presented yesterday at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Toronto.
They held true regardless of the mother's race, class, education or smoking history. Lead researcher Dr Rosalind Wright, of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said: "While predisposition to asthma may be, in part, set at birth, the factors that may determine this are not strictly genetic.
"This research supports the notion that stress can be thought of as a social pollutant that, when 'breathed' into the body, may influence the immune response, similar to the effects of physical pollutants like allergens."
Previous research has found children of stressed mothers had lower IQs at 18 months and double the risk of hyperactivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at the age of four.
There are 5.2million asthma sufferers in the UK, including 1.1million children, while growing numbers of children suffer from allergies.
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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii
Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.â€
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
my comments are in bold brackets
Pregnant women who use mobile phones are 'more likely to have children with behavioural problems', say scientists
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=567125&in_page_id=1774
The study found that mothers who used their mobile phone while pregnant were 54 per cent more likely to report their children had behavioural problems (self reporting people find excuses for thier brats behviour)
Pregnant women who use mobile phones are more likely to have children with behavioural problems, a shocking study has found.
Using handsets just two or three times a day is enough to raise the risk of hyperactivity and emotional problems.
Letting children use mobiles before the age of seven also puts them at risk, scientists warn.
The research is the latest in a series of health fears linked to mobile phones and yet another worry for expectant mothers, who have already been warned about drinking, smoking, pesticides, food allergies and stress.
The study follows a finding by the official Russian radiation watchdog that the danger posed by mobile phones is "not much lower than the risk to children's health from tobacco or alcohol".
The UK's Health Protection Agency said the study's findings were unexpected and highlighted the need for caution over mobiles. But it stopped short of telling pregnant women not to use them.
A spokesman said: "Its findings need to be investigated thoroughly. There may be another cause for the effect observed."
The agency has already warned against "excessive" use of mobile phones by children.
The study, the first of its kind in the world, covered more than 13,000 women.
It found that those who used phones while pregnant were 54 per cent more likely to report behavioural problems in their children, including hyperactivity and emotional and relationship difficulties.(is it 54% of 100, or 2000 or is it a 54% increase of a 0.001 chance
Problems were even more likely among children whose mothers had used phones while pregnant and who had used mobiles themselves before the age of seven.
They were 80 per cent more likely to suffer from behavioural difficulties compared to youngsters who had not been exposed to mobile phone use at all.
They were 25 per cent more at risk of emotional problems, 24 per cent more likely to have difficulties relating to other children, 35 per cent more likely to be hyperactive and 49 per cent more likely to have problems with behaviour.
The risks increased with the amount of phone use and potential radiation.
Experts said the results were particularly significant as one of the study's authors has been a leading sceptic over claims that mobile phones were a health risk.
Professor Leeka Kheifets of the University of California, Los Angeles, had previously written that there was no proof of "any adverse health effect".
But she and her three co-authors concluded that there did appear to be an association between mobile phone exposure and behavioural problems.
They warned, however, that there were other possible explanations, including that mothers who were frequently on the phone through pregnancy might continue the pattern after birth, spending less time with their babies.
Previous studies have suggested a link between children being left unattended for long periods and later behavioural problems.
The research, conducted jointly with academics in Aarhus, Denmark, is due to be published in the respected medical journal Epidemiology in July.
Radiation from mobile phones is thought to penetrate only one or two centimetres into the skin and not to reach the unborn child.
But previous studies have shown it can affect levels of melatonin, a sleep- controlling hormone that mothers pass to unborn babies through the placenta
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=567192&in_page_id=1770
Stressed pregnant women are more likely to have children with allergies
Last updated at 01:45am on 19th May 2008
Pregnancy stress is linked to allergies
Women who are stressed in pregnancy, possibly by financial or relationship problems, are more likely to have babies who suffer from asthma and allergies, say researchers.
Findings from a U.S. study suggest babies exposed to stress before birth have an increased tendency to react to allergy triggers such as dust mites.
It is thought the developing immune system of unborn babies can be changed by maternal stress, probably through stress hormones such as cortisol.
The results of the study, at Harvard Medical School, Boston, were presented yesterday at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Toronto.
They held true regardless of the mother's race, class, education or smoking history. Lead researcher Dr Rosalind Wright, of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said: "While predisposition to asthma may be, in part, set at birth, the factors that may determine this are not strictly genetic.
"This research supports the notion that stress can be thought of as a social pollutant that, when 'breathed' into the body, may influence the immune response, similar to the effects of physical pollutants like allergens."
Previous research has found children of stressed mothers had lower IQs at 18 months and double the risk of hyperactivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at the age of four.
There are 5.2million asthma sufferers in the UK, including 1.1million children, while growing numbers of children suffer from allergies.
*********************************************************************************************************************************
I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii
Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.â€
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
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