Dr Rosa M Cruz Hernandez

15/02/2022

Good morning, this page was created to provide information about General Pediatric medical care.
I hope the information will help parents and families up to date with your children’s health!

08/10/2019

Researchers found that 4% of children and teens around the world had hypertension, with the prevalence of childhood hypertension increasing at a relative rate of 75% to 79% from 2000 to 2015. The findings in JAMA Pediatrics, based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of 47 studies between 1994 a...

17/09/2019

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Children born to mothers who took acetaminophen during the first and second trimesters, the second trimester alone, and anytime during their pregnancy were more likely to develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, compared with those whose mothers didn't take acetaminophen during pregnancy, T...

17/09/2019

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Researchers found that 18.5% of physician visits for US children up to age 18 involved at least one off-label prescription, according to a study in Pediatrics. Teens were most likely to get an off-label medication, but 83% of newborns who needed medication got an off-label drug, and girls, those wit...

14/09/2019

04/09/2019

A case study in the Annals of Internal Medicine described a 17-year-old boy in the UK with avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder who developed nutritional optic neuropathy, resulting in permanent blindness, after eating only Pringles potato chips, white bread, fries from a fish and chip shop, sa...

24/04/2019

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A study in the European Heart Journal showed that individuals with prediabetes who received 2,000 mg of metformin daily experienced reductions in left ventricular hypertrophy, body weight and blood pressure levels, compared with those on placebo. Researchers recruited 68 participants for the MET-REM...

24/04/2019

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A study in the European Heart Journal showed that individuals with prediabetes who received 2,000 mg of metformin daily experienced reductions in left ventricular hypertrophy, body weight and blood pressure levels, compared with those on placebo. Researchers recruited 68 participants for the MET-REM...

29/03/2019

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A study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine associated every additional 0.1-gram of omega-3 dietary intake to a 3% to 4% reduced likelihood of daytime asthma symptoms among children. However, researchers found that every gram increase in omega-6 dietary intake was linke...