Daycare lowers leukemia risk by 30%
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Daycare lowers leukemia risk by 30%
| Wed, 04-30-2008 - 11:15pm |
Someone on another board posted this. Does anyone have thoughts on it? Thirty percent is quite a significant difference!
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Me either. I just wanted to point out that it wasn't just one study, though. Researchers analyzed the results of 14 studies, and the result was that they noticed that across those 14 studies, children who attended daycare or playgroups in the first few years were 30% less likely to be subsequently diagnosed with childhood leukemia than isolated children. I understand being cautious about studies you read in the news, and that the media is notorious for sensationalizing these things (my parents didn't speak to me in Spanish as a child because of a stupid oversimplified news report), but it seems to me that what we have here is a pretty strong correlation between early social contact and susceptibility to this disease - strong enough to warrant the article's title. The meta-analysis showed that putting kids in daycare DID reduce their risk.
I would be intererested in looking at the actual studies. I wonder how effectively they could isolate that one variable to draw the conclusion? The problem with studies like these is that it is extremely difficult to isolate variables. If they don't analyze every possible connection, the conclusion isn't completely accurate.When they say isolated, I wonder exactly how they define that. It has also been noted that daycare isn't the only way to prime the immune system of young children, so saying daycare is the definitive connection seems a little inaccurate to me. If I were to chose to put a young infant into fulltime dc that could sacrifice the breastfeeding relationship. Breastfeeding can be very important in a child's health so I can't see sacrificing breastfeeding my child
Aw, thanks! I love my happy little guy. :-)
And I'm glad that you engage in critical thinking regarding study publications. More people need to do that.
The word daycare should not be in the headlines or studies. Children in group settings (or something to that effect) would be more accurate.
"daycare" does not lower the risk. Exposing certain children to viruses (which can be done in a lot of different settings) can lower their risk. There is nothing about daycare itself that will lower the risk.
<"Our analysis concluded that children who attended daycare or play groups had about a 30-per-cent lower risk of developing leukemia than those who did not," lead author Patricia Buffler, professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the University of California, Berkeley said in a statement.>
Contrary to your headline,
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