Preventing Heart Ailments at Their Roots - Childhood - NYTimes.com

Two studies published Monday suggest that the road to hypertension and heart disease starts in childhood and that prevention should start there, too.

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One analysis found that parental smoking increases the risk for high blood pressure in preschoolers, and the other that excessive sugar consumption in teenagers is associated with multiple factors known to increase the risk for cardiovascular disease. Both reports appear in the February issue of the journal Circulation.

The first study looked at 4,236 children in Germany, where 5-year-olds undergo a compulsory physical and cognitive assessment before starting school. During the period of the study, 2007-8, more than 28 percent had at least one parent who smoked. Even after correcting for body mass index and parental hypertension, having a smoker as a parent substantially increased the likelihood that a child would have blood pressure readings in the top 15 percent of the sample.

Parental smoking was not the only association, or even the strongest. Being overweight and having a parent with hypertension were also associated with high blood pressure in the children. But the lead author, Dr. Giacomo D. Simonetti, said smoking was probably the easiest risk to modify.

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Welcome to Wish.org, the online home of the nation’s largest wish-granting organization. Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation^® has given hope, strength and joy to children with life-threatening medical conditions. From our humble beginnings with one boy’s wish to be a police officer, we’ve evolved into an organization that grants a child’s wish in the U.S. every 40 minutes.

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Children's Hospital launches 'zero errors' initiative

Reeling from the deaths of two children due to medication errors, the staff of Seattle Children's Hospital devoted Saturday to special training designed to prevent a recurrence of the tragedies.

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"It's so very important that we never forget that we harmed these children," said Pat Hagan, president of Children's Hospital. "We were all devastated by this when it happened. It struck us at our core."

Hagan said the patient deaths have been a "great, great tragedy for these families," and "a profound tragedy" for the hospital staff.

"We never want to forget how this feels. That feeling is going to be what drives us to continue to find ways to improve what we do here," he said.

Over 550 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other staff members gathered at Children's for a special Patient Safety Day to address the medication errors that caused two deaths over the past 18 months.

More than 28 patient safety sessions were held, including 11 devoted to medication safety.

But first, participants gathered together in the morning to remember the two small patients who died.

"How we emerge from this situation today and over the coming months will be the real test of us as an organization," said Thomas Hansen, the hospital's CEO. "As I look around this room, I'm confident that we have the best and brightest people to rise to this challenge."

He told the staff "we must strive for zero errors, this must be our promise."

The day's sessions included topics such as decreasing verbal orders and increasing the safety of verbal orders when they are necessary, standardizing medications located on care units, ordering, dispensing and administration of high-risk medications, interruptions, provider-to-provider hand-offs and communication, ambulance transport and patient safety training using simulation.

Hospital spokesperson Louise Maxwell said Children's also is fully cooperating with state investigations of the recent medication errors and has made a number of improvements to decrease the chance of errors.

The hospital has also initiated a re-evaluation of the entire medication delivery system and launched a detailed analysis to determine why usual safety processes failed in each of the medication error cases.

Hospital officals said Saturday's special training did not affect care for patients or others needing urgent or emergency services.

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My beautiful baby girl
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without a care in the world...
but soon you will be gone.

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how much you looked like me,
an image so clear none could deny
and all could plainly see.

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will stay here in my heart
long after you are fully grown,
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I'll always treasure you, my dear,
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"Why are you crying?" he asked his mom.

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His mom just hugged him and said, "You never will!"

Later the little boy asked his father why Mother seemed to cry for no reason.

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The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why mothers cry. So he finally put in a call to God and when God got on the phone the man said, "God, why do mothers cry so easily."

God said, "You see son, when I made mothers they had to be special. I made their shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave them an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times come from their children.

"I gave them a hardiness that allows them to keep going when everyone else gives up, and to take care of their families through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

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A child's life is a blank page.
What will the first words be?

Shut up!
Get out of my sight.
Go play.
Don't touch!

You, that child's parent, write upon
These words teach fear.
They register unwantedness.
They say, "I don't love you."

Let your words teach gentleness and beauty.
Let them supply high moral principles,
courage to meet life's disappointments, pride in a job well done.
Use words that reflect your love:

Beautiful, son!
You did a great job.
Don't worry--we'll clean it up together.
I'm so proud of you!
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