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Diabetes Threatens Children

Diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the biggest dangers to teenagers and even young children in China due to a serious lack of nutritional education, warn health experts.

It was confirmed last week that the country has the highest population of diabetics in the world, with more than 92 million sufferers.

According to figures from the Chinese Medical Doctors’ Association, children make up about 5 percent of that figure. The number of juveniles with the potentially fatal condition is rising by 10 percent every year, a report by the association said.

But it is not just the impact on a child’s health doctors are concerned about.

Discrimination toward diabetes can also seriously affect a sufferer’s chances of finding a job or even getting accepted into college.

“Although the proportion of juvenile diabetics still accounts for a low percentage of all diabetics, their numbers have increased very fast in recent years,” said Ji Linong, director of endocrinology at the People’s Hospital of Peking University.

“This is a situation that calls for urgent attention from society.”

One of the youngest patients ever to be diagnosed with the condition is a 3-year-old girl admitted to Shaoxing People’s Hospital in Zhejiang province in January. Staff said they have treated a dozen or so child diabetics under 10 years old in recent years.

The girl’s grandmother, who is in her late 50s and did not want to be named, took the youngster to get help after noticing she was losing a lot of weight. “She loves fizzy drinks and she always seemed anxious to eat,” she said. “But the more she ate, the thinner she got.”

Tests showed the patient’s blood-sugar level was more than 11 millimoles per liter (the standard unit of measurement), far higher than the normal 3.9 to 6.1 mmol/L.

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Though having a dry skin can be a year-round problem for some people, but winter months bring the typical bouts of dry skin for most of us. Dry skin can range from the ordinary symptoms of scaly or flaky skin to the more severe conditions of skin inflammation which is called eczema. It is actually a generalized term for many types of skin inflammation, and it affects all ages but is most commonly found in children. There is no known exact cause of eczema, but doctors believe an abnormal function of the immune system to be a factor. Since there really isn’t a perfect cure, eczema treatment is to get the itching and inflammation under control and of course prevent the condition from getting worse.

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Static in Cellphone Study

The final results of a major international study of the potential link between cellphone use and cancer were published last week. The finding: Using a cellphone seems to protect against two types of brain tumors.

Even the researchers didn’t quite believe it.

The apparent shield of cellphone radiation, most likely fictitious, illustrates how hard it is to analyze, let alone quantify, the potential for a small elevated risk in a rare disease from a widespread, mundane activity.

“They found that ever having used a cellphone appeared to be protective [against] brain cancer,” says David O. Carpenter, director of the University at Albany’s Institute for Health and the Environment, in Albany, N.Y. “And that just simply makes no sense.”

The study was funded in part by the Mobile Manufacturers’ Forum and GSM Association, two wireless industry groups. The researchers had protections in place they say guarded their independence. Most criticisms of the study haven’t focused on the funding.

The researchers conducting the study, which was called Interphone, were flummoxed at nearly every turn. They tried to find a control group that matched participants who had suffered a brain tumor, but potential subjects were reluctant to participate, for various reasons. Then there were subtle behavioral differences between individuals with and without brain tumors. Internal squabbling over how to interpret the results delayed publication for so long that usage patterns of study participants didn’t match those of mobile users today.

The Interphone researchers acknowledged in their resulting paper, published online last week by the International Journal of Epidemiology, that something had probably gone wrong with the controls.

The study tracked cellphone use across 13 countries. It looked at a group of adults 30 to 59 years old who had been diagnosed with glioma or meningioma, types of brain tumors that can be either benign or malignant, between 2000 and 2004. They were compared with control subjects, people selected to match the individuals with tumors in terms of age, gender and place of residence.

Then both groups were interviewed extensively about their cellphone use. If the two groups matched in other ways, and the group with brain tumors used cellphones more frequently, that would suggest that cellphone use might have caused the tumors.

But they didn’t really match. For one thing, just 53% of people selected to participate as controls agreed, and a survey of those who declined showed that they were less likely to use cellphones than those who participated. That may have artificially raised cellphone use in the tumor-free control group and made mobile phones seem less dangerous than they are.

The result is a strange set of numbers. Many levels of cellphone use appeared to reduce the chance of developing a tumor. Only the people who talked on cellphones the most had a significantly greater chance of developing glioma—40% greater—than those who didn’t use cellphones.

Yet, as some of the study’s authors themselves pointed out, if those who never used cellphones—who were more prevalent among those with tumors—were excluded, and the lightest users were contrasted with the more avid ones, then the bizarre protective effect of cellphone use mostly disappeared, and the risk among the heaviest users was 82% greater.

Even in this analysis, the risk doesn’t steadily increase with use, which is what epidemiologists typically look for—a discernible dose-response relationship. “It’s certainly less compelling than if you saw some kind of graded response,” says David A. Savitz, director of the Disease Prevention and Public Health Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Disputes about how to interpret these numbers held up publication of the research, says Christopher Wild, director of the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, in Lyon, which coordinated the study. The study was published more than six years after its conclusion, by which time cellphone use had both surged and changed.

“Interphone made more effort than most other studies to identify and quantify its own flaws,” says co-author Martine Vrijheid, a researcher at the agency. “It has thereby also attracted more attention to these flaws.”

A U.K. study under way will take a different approach, tracking cellphone users over time to see if heavy use is tied to a greater incidence of cancer. But the study will still need to enlist hundreds of thousands of volunteers to yield useful results, and it could take decades to spot any divergence in cancer rates.

Epidemiologists say such research may be difficult and expensive but is important.

“Even if you think it’s very, very unlikely that it’s a problem,” Dr. Savitz says, “it’s always worth some effort to make sure you haven’t done something really terrible” as a society by enabling widespread cellphone use. Such open questions, and the difficulty of solving them, he says, “keep epidemiologists in business for a long time.”  By Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal

Water-Efficient & High-Performing

To be well informed about water economy is to understand our relationship with this elegant design of nature. Towards this reason, what can we do in our small piece of the world to save, maintain and use clean water? Well, everyone can start with basic steps to save money and improve chances of surviving the ever growing need for clean plentiful water. At home, we should begin by looking at every water source and assess if they are water efficient, as most of the water wasted in homes comes from high-end bath or kitchen. Thankfully, a new program has been introduced which makes finding an efficient product easier than ever. A Grohe faucet is not only water-efficient, but is also high-performing products. Their multi-head shower systems allow you to achieve the perfect water temperature with thermostatically controlled valves for the ultimate in chic relaxation.

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