Stressed kids may have high risk of heart disease later on
A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyindicates that children who experience high levels of stress during childhood may be at greater risk for diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Stress is the main cause of around 60% of all illness and disease in humans, according to the American Institute of Stress.
To gain a better understanding if this was true, lead author Ashley Winning, of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA, and colleagues analyzed data of almost 7,000 people who were part of the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study.
The authors of the study said, ‘While effects of distress in early childhood on higher cardio-metabolic risk in adulthood appeared to be somewhat mitigated if distress levels were lower by adulthood, they were not eradicated. This highlights the potentially lasting impact of childhood distress on adult physical health.’
Parents, teachers and senior school children should be take care that they do not put younger children under stress.
Written by: Dr. Ajay Sati.
