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Study Finds Decline in Infant Cerebral Palsy
According to Seedol, a study conducted by a team of researchers in the Netherlands suggests a decline in the number of children diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The study findings were published in the journal of Pediatrics concluded that promising developments have been made in recent years in terms of cerebral palsy diagnosis and their severity on infants born prematurely. The study conducted by the University Medical Center Utrecht examined 3,000 children born prematurely, a group commonly susceptible to being diagnosed with cerebral palsy, over a 15-year period from 1990 to 2005. The researchers found that 6.5 percent of the infants born between 1990 and 1993 were diagnosed with the birth injury, while only 2.2 percent of infants born between 2002 and 2005 received a similar diagnosis. The decline could be attributed to technological and medical advances, study authors suggest. Advances in perinatal and neonatal care may have contributed to the…
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Premature Babies Are At Higher Risk of Diabetes, Study Finds
According to MSNBC, diabetes risk may be slightly higher in premature babies. According to a Swedish study, children who spent less time in the womb had a slightly higher risk, less than 1 percent, of developing diabetes at a later time in their life. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 3 of every 25 babies are delivered prematurely. Premature babies face a lot of developmental risks, but diabetes could lead to other risk factors such as high blood pressure. The research team, along with Dr. Casey Crump of Stanford University, used a national prescription database to track the use of diabetes medications by 630,000 people in Sweden born between 1973 and 1979. Roughly 28,000 of those individuals were born premature, the study found. Crump’s team found that 15 out of 100 preemies developed diabetes by the time they were in their twenties and thirties….
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Researchers Find Learning Ability Restored After Brain Injury With New Cells
According to Science News, a study conducted on mice showed that newborn nerve cells may help heal the brain after a traumatic injury. Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center published in the Journal of Neuroscience a finding that could help treat brain injured patients with new nerve cells. Doctors have known that adult brains can make new neurons in two parts of the brain, but the role of those cells has not been clear. Some scientists suggest that generating new nerve cells may be a way to build a new brain during development and has no affect on the adult brain at all. Others argue that new wiring hooks up new brain cells and sometimes can cause seizures due to wire tangling. The new study suggests that newborn neurons made in the hippocampus are beneficial, at least in aiding recovery after a traumatic brain injury. The hippocampus…
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