Article Text
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Should we screen for screen time?
‘Screen time’ means time spent on a computer, games console or television. Nightingale et al report data from the Child Heart and Health Study in England (CHASE), which although a bit old (2004–7) are arguably still relevant even though they acknowledge that ‘screens’ in 2017 would have to include tablets and smartphones. These authors looked for associations not only with fatness, but independently with metabolic risk factors for type two diabetes, such as insulin resistance. Their finding of a strong independent association between screen time and type two diabetes markers, including insulin resistance, with a dose-response in terms of quantity of screen time, is both of interest and concern. It does not prove causality of course, but since exercise is causal for improvements in the factors that collectively make up the risk for type two diabetes, it is reasonable to think that it may be worth evaluating screen time in paediatric consultations with young people, and at least starting a conversation with them about it. See page 612.
Hepatitis A
Acute infectious hepatitis is rare in children so it was a good topic for a study using the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit. …
Linked Articles
- Original article
- Review
- Review
- Original article
- Original article
- Drug therapy