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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Interesting study of children in Bradford
The universe is made up of a total of 10,000 families, which starred one of the child health studies major who has been made to date. It is noteworthy that Bradford -West Yorkshire city, England, has a total of 493 000 inhabitants- has the dubious honor of recording twice the national rate of infant mortality and the highest rate of genetic diseases in Britain, leading the british classification tables with respect to heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Short life expectancy
As each city, the city of Bradford has its own peculiarities, and among them, it is noteworthy that more than half of the 6,000 children born each year have mothers in Bradford Pakistanis, and more than two thirds of these women are married with his cousins, with the risk of these children suffer an autosomal recessive disorder, many of which lead to some of these children develop severe disabilities and their life expectancy is shorter than would be normal. In this regard, John Wright professor, head of the study and epidemiologist at the Bradford Royal Infirmary, remarked that the purpose of conducting studies such as this was none other than identifying the causes, to find the reasons, diseases in newborns.
Two of the objects of study, two of the realities of this work, the sisters represent Safina and Tahira. Tahira has just given birth to her third child, but has suffered some complications which could be due to genetic problems. Tahira normal is getting married cousin -"is normal for us as we have been educated"-, while recognizing that your child has had some complications, and, oddly, she herself suffered from the same small congenital heart defect their child. Given this parallelism, Tahira says: "I think the fact that my child as I've had the same problem may be due to genetic origin and could be related to the fact that many of our marriages are between cousins."
Tahir also supports the results of research on the gestational diabetes, which she was subjected during their last pregnancy. Therefore, Tahira believes "it is good that Bradford evaluate these issues, and monitoring is made to the mothers so closely, as this will help families like ours.
Diabetes epidemic
Raj Bhopal, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, said that the investigation will be crucial to better understand the development of diabetes, while they were encouraged to note that "we are facing an epidemic of diabetes. There 200 million people worldwide with diabetes. In the UK the numbers are doubling, and the same applies in the countries of South Asia".
To better understand this situation, the research carried out in Bradford is of great interest because it will bring great lines. Raj Bhopal has this hope. He says it is known that diabetes risk increases when a newborn is smaller than that accruing as their weight is less than desired. "What we learn -Bhopal concludes- is how the growth of these babies, and what is the exact relationship between the establishment of the fat and the onset of diabetes. And in this task, the Bradford study will help us better understand the situation". And what is not said Bhopal is that the conclusions of this study also have their uses and interest with respect to what happens in the Spanish cohorts Inma Project.