Fathers in Sweden are less likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis during their partner’s pregnancy and in the months following the birth of their child. However, diagnoses of depression and stress-related disorders increase a year later, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Sichuan University in China.

Childhood deaths are significantly higher among children who lose a parent to drug overdose, homicide or suicide compared to the general child population, a new University of Michigan study found.

About The Study: This statewide cohort study found that childhood mortality is significantly higher among children bereaved by parental drug overdose, homicide, and suicide compared with the general child population. Parental homicide was associated with the highest risk of mortality in children and highlights the need for research into potential explanations, such as the impact on family restructuring and mental health.

About The Study: In this multicenter randomized clinical trial among older adults with family history of dementia and/or self-reported subjective cognitive decline, exercise, intensive pharmacological reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, or both did not result in statistically significant differences in improvements in cognitive function over 24 months.

About The Study: In England’s health care system, multiple sclerosis prevalence more than doubled while survival rates increased over 30 years. Substantial gradients in tobacco use, abnormal weight, and socioeconomic deprivation persisted and were associated with mortality.

About The Study: The results this cohort study suggest that children ages 7 to 17 with metabolically healthy obesity at treatment initiation have an increased associated long-term risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia compared with their peers in the general population. Reduction in BMI z score in pediatric obesity treatment was associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk in children with metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity to the same extent. Therefore, treatment should also be recommended for children with obesity who appear metabolically healthy. 

About The Study: Using Fitbit data in a longitudinal cohort of 3,393 young adolescents, 6 sleep health dimensions were identified: irregularity, timing, duration, social jetlag, weekend oversleep, and continuity. Greater irregularity was associated with higher concurrent transdiagnostic mental health symptoms, whereas shorter duration was associated with higher symptoms at 1-year follow-up. These findings demonstrate the multidimensional nature of adolescent sleep health and can help guide selection of sleep health domains and representative measures to enhance reproducibility and suggest potential intervention targets.