VIDEO: High Mortality Rates For Youth, Connection Between Unhappy Childhood and Adulthood Obesity, Doctors Feel Stress When Working With Patient's Surrogate

11.09.2009 | 1:54 min

(September 11, 2009 - Insidermedicine) From Australia - Young people have a very high risk for mortality, according to a report published in The Lancet. Studying global death rate statistics, researchers found that 2.6 million youths aged 10 to 24 are dying each year and that most of these deaths are preventable. 97% of these deaths occurred in low-to-middle income countries, while almost 40% occurred as a result of accidents or violence, specifically, war. From London - Unhappy children are more likely to become overweight later in life, according to a report published in the journal BMC Medicine. Researchers examined over 6,500 individuals who had participated in the 1970 British Birth Cohort study, measuring each persons weight and height at age 10 and again at age 30. Participants were also questioned on their emotional state. Results showed that those who had low self-esteem and worried excessively as children were more likely to be obese as adults. And finally, from Indianapolis -  Doctors feel additional stress when they have to work with a patient's surrogate decision maker, according to a report published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.  Researchers studied nearly 300 doctors, 3/4 of which had dealt with surrogates shortly before the study began. 25% of doctors reported feeling significant stress working with surrogates. Ineffective communication and dissatisfaction with outcome of the decisions were the primary reasons cited for this stress.
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