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It is responsible for the secondary cause of mortality among children less than 5 years of age surpassing the combined childhood deaths from malaria, measles, and AIDS. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reported 2.5 billion cases of diarrhea in children ...
The main causes of constipation are diet, lack of sufficient amounts of water, stress, not enough exercise, and inconsistent bathroom routines. [19] Enuresis: The cause of enuresis is thought to be unclear and usually is attributed to many factors. Genetic – there is a genetic component within enuresis and it tends to run in families.
Undernutrition in children causes direct structural damage to the brain and impairs infant motor development and exploratory behavior. [14] Children who are undernourished before age two and gain weight quickly later in childhood and in adolescence are at high risk of chronic diseases related to nutrition.
The two types of procedures have shown a 26% weight loss from baseline at five years with an 86% remission rate in diabetes and 68% hypertension remission rate. [6] Of those adolescents who lost weight after bariatric surgery, 60% maintained at least a 20% weight loss at five-year follow-up and 8% had regained most of the pre-surgical weight. [6]
Experts say that recent, unexplained weight loss is a "well-known phenomenon" associated with cancer. But other health conditions can cause weight loss as well.
Primary insomnia is a sleep disorder not attributable to a medical, psychiatric, or environmental cause. [127] There are three main types of primary insomnia. These include psychophysiological, idiopathic insomnia, and sleep state misperception (paradoxical insomnia). [ 124 ]
Failure to thrive (FTT), also known as weight faltering or faltering growth, indicates insufficient weight gain or absence of appropriate physical growth in children. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] FTT is usually defined in terms of weight, and can be evaluated either by a low weight for the child's age, or by a low rate of increase in the weight.
When a person struggles to fall asleep or stay asleep without any obvious cause, it is referred to as insomnia, [2] which is the most common sleep disorder. [3] Other sleep disorders include sleep apnea , narcolepsy , hypersomnia (excessive sleepiness at inappropriate times), sleeping sickness (disruption of the sleep cycle due to infection ...