Children's Heart Disease

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses heart disease in children. It first looks at the improved technology in detecting and treating heart disease in children. In then looks at the fact that children who are obese or at risk for obesity show early signs of heart disease similar to obese adults with heart disease. The paper focuses on the need for prevention and treatment of heart disease that begins during childhood.

From the Paper:

"At the same time, parents have to be encouraged by their physicians and other professionals to follow better diets and reinforce the same in their own children. Childhood offers a unique opportunity for promoting and reinforcing cardiovascular health. Parents actively turn to their primary care providers, especially pediatricians, when their children are newborn and infants. Valuable information offered at this vulnerable time can have a critical impact on a child's future lifestyle. Charting growth patterns, weight and blood pressure and following other health factors over time presents early identification of lifestyle choices that may contribute to the risk of cardiovascular problems in later life. Health promotion has to start by focusing on intervention at the child's developmental level."

Sample of Sources Used:

• American Heart Association. Congenital Heart Defects Fact Sheet. 25/10/2007 http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=12012
• Ennis, Heather. New procedure little help for babies with lethal heart condition Medical Post. 41.9 (2005): 19
• Lorch SM, Sharkey A. Myocardial Velocity, Strain, and Strain Rate Abnormalities in Healthy Obese Children. Journal of Cardiometabolic Syndrome.2.1 (2007) 30-34.
• MacNeil, Jane Salodof Improved imaging tracks congenital heart disease: new tools allow physicians to image the heart and other structures in small pediatric patients. Pediatric News 40.5 (2006): 52
• Michals-Matalon, K., et al. Nutrient Intake and Congenital Heart Defects in Maternal Phenylketonuria. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 187 (2002) 441-444.

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