Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine surveyed the
parents of more than 11,000 kids with sleep disordered breathing.
Doctors
asked the parents to track their kids' snoring, mouth breathing and
sleep apnea from six months to about six years of age.
Cleveland
Clinic psychologist Joe Austerman didn't take part in the study, but
said the results show a connection between poor sleep and behavior
problems down the road.
"Most notably what they looked for were
children that were mouth breathers, children that snored and children
that had obstructive sleep apnea, and they highly correlated that with
hyper activity, poorer ability to plan or executive functioning and
emotional problems," he explained.
The study found that by four
years of age, kids with sleep disordered breathing are 20 to 60 percent
more likely to show behavioral difficulties. By age seven, kids are 40
to 100 percent more likely to show behavior problems.
Researchers say symptoms for sleep disordered breathing may require attention as early as the first year of life.
Austerman said that the findings underscore the importance of sleep for children.
"For
adults, when you have a bad night's sleep, you don't function well the
next day. This is true for children and adolescents. When they don't
sleep well, they do poorer in school. This may translate to poorer
self-esteem or poorer control of their behaviors. So, I think it's a
very simple message and something that intuitively we know, but this
research now backs that up scientifically that sleep is very important
for kids," he remarked.
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"We intend to build cars in North America for [the] North American market, build cars in Europe for the European market and build them in Asia for the Asian market," said Don Graunstadt.
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