Children's Health Declines In Last 17 Years, Study Finds

The beingness and intelligence health of U.S. children has declined complete nan past 17 years, according to a caller study.

The findings, published Monday successful nan Journal of nan American Medical Association, charted trends successful children’s wellness successful nan U.S. from 2007 to 2023.

"The astonishing portion of nan study wasn’t pinch immoderate azygous statistic; it was that there’s 170 indicators, 8 information sources, each showing nan aforesaid thing: a generalized diminution successful kids’ health," Dr. Christopher Forrest, 1 of nan authors of nan study, told nan Associated Press.

The study recovered that U.S. children were 15% to 20% much apt to person a chronic information specified arsenic anxiety, slump aliases slumber apnea than U.S. children successful 2011.

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The findings published successful nan Journal of nan American Medical Association looked astatine U.S. children's beingness and intelligence wellness from 2007 to 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Childhood obesity rates for U.S. children roseate from 17% successful 2007-2008 to astir 21% from 2021-2023, according to nan findings.

American kids besides knowledgeable an summation successful early onset of menstruation, problem sleeping, limitations successful activity, beingness symptoms, depressive symptoms and loneliness during nan study period.

The insubstantial besides compared nan mortality rates of U.S. children to kids successful different high-income countries, uncovering that American children were astir 1.8 times much apt to dice than those successful nan different countries.

Being calved premature and abrupt unexpected decease were overmuch higher among U.S. infants, and firearm-related incidents and centrifugal conveyance crashes were overmuch much communal among 1-19-year-old American youths than among those nan aforesaid property successful different countries examined.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought children's wellness to nan forefront of nan nationalist argumentation speech pinch his "Make America Healthy Again" plan.

An editorial that accompanied nan caller study, however, based on that nan Trump administration’s actions – including cuts to federal wellness agencies, Medicaid and scientific research – are not apt to reverse nan trend.

"The wellness of kids successful America is not arsenic bully arsenic it should be, not arsenic bully arsenic nan different countries, and nan existent policies of this management are decidedly going to make it worse," Dr. Frederick Rivara, a pediatrician and interrogator astatine nan Seattle Children's Hospital and UW Medicine successful Seattle, told nan AP.

Forrest, a pediatrician astatine nan Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said "kids are nan canaries successful nan ember mine," and that nan findings bespeak bigger problems pinch America’s wellness astatine large.

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"We person to measurement backmost and return immoderate lessons from nan ecological sustainability organization and say: Let’s look astatine nan ecosystem that kids are increasing up in. And let’s commencement connected a benignant of neighborhood-by-neighborhood, city-by-city basis, examining it," he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.