HealthDay (7/10, Preidt) reports investigators “surveyed more than 12,000 teens in Germany, Poland and Romania and found those who used social network sites for more than two hours a day were at increased risk for cyberbullying.” The findings were published online July 10 in BMC Public Health. MedPage Today also covers the story.

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— “Teens Focused on Social Media May Be at Cyberbullying Risk ,”Robert Preidt , HealthDay, July 10, 2018.

Reuters (7/10, Carroll) reports that research published online July 10 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes suggests that “more than 16 years after cleanup was completed at the site of the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City’s World Trade Center complex, many who worked at the disaster site still struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and may also have an elevated risk of heart attack and stroke as a result.”

HealthDay (7/10, Gordon) reports that approximately “20 percent of men and 26 percent of women who responded when the twin towers were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 developed PTSD, which is at least twice the rate expected in the general population, the researchers said.” The investigators found that “those who developed” PTSD “faced more than double the risk of a heart attack and stroke compared to those who worked on New York City’s World Trade Center site but didn’t develop PTSD.”

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— “PTSD raises heart and stroke risk in World Trade Center cleanup crews,”Linda Carroll, Reuters, July 10, 2018.

HealthDay (7/9, Preidt) reports, “Children whose parents spend time in prison are more likely to lead risky lifestyles as young adults,” researchers found after analyzing “data from more than 13,000 young adults, aged 24 to 32,” about 10 percent of whom “had a parent incarcerated during their childhood.” The study revealed that “young adults who had a parent incarcerated during their childhood were more likely to skip needed health care, smoke cigarettes, engage in risky sex, and abuse alcohol, prescription and illicit drugs.” The findings were published online in the journal Pediatrics.

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— “When Parents Do Time, Kids Pay the Price,” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, July 9, 2018.

Healio (7/9, Demko) reports that a 24-study “integrative review published” online May 20 in the journal Birth “revealed that anger coexists with postpartum mood disturbances in women.” The review also demonstrated that “anger occurs when women’s expectations about motherhood are different from reality, and when they feel trapped in situations such as poverty and intimate partner violence.”

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— “Anger coexists with postnatal depression,”Savannah Demko, Healio, July 9, 2018.

The ABC News (7/9, Powell) website reports research published online July 9 in Pediatrics “finds that traumatic events in childhood increase the risk of mental health and behavioral problems not just for that person but also for their children.” For the study, researchers “used a national sample of families from previous research – parents who had participated in a 2014 Child Development Supplement and 2,529 of their children who had complete data in the 2014 Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study.” The study revealed an association “between children with a high rate of behavioral problems and parents who had experienced a greater number of adverse childhood events.”

HealthDay (7/9, Norton) reports children of parents who had experienced “abuse or other adversities” as children were themselves “twice as likely to have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder” and “four times as likely to have been diagnosed with any mental health disorder.” Medical Daily (7/9) also covers the study.

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— “Trauma suffered in childhood echoes across generations, study finds,”Denise Powell, The ABC News, July 9, 2018.