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In a multicenter, international study of infants and children who suffered cardiac arrest while in the hospital, NIH-funded researchers have found that body cooling, or therapeutic hypothermia, is no more effective than actively keeping the body at a normal temperature, or therapeutic normothermia.
Young children do follow in their parents’ footsteps. Literally.
That’s the conclusion of NIH-funded researchers who found that in underserved populations, parents’ physical activity—and their sedentary behavior—directly correlates with the activity level of their preschoolers. Researchers say these findings, published January 9 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, could lead to interventions that focus more on helping parents model—not just encourage—an active lifestyle for their children.
It is not just the extra fat in the body, but where it is stored that increases the risks for diabetes, heart disease and stroke. NHLBI-funded researchers have identified seven new areas of the genome that influence the storage of fat. The study published in Nature Genetics might lead to insights for prevention and targeted therapies. Read the release.
The risk for heart disease and stroke is significantly greater for black men and women living in impoverished, usually urban neighborhoods, according to an NHLBI-funded study published in the American Journal of Public Health. The researchers analyzed data from the Jackson Heart Study and the 2000 U.S. Census, and found that every step down the scale used to measure socioeconomic status was associated with a 25 percent rise in heart disease risk.
