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How to use the word Abnormality in a Sentence?

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Cardiac events during sports are uncommon for anyone, said Dr. Stuart Berger, division head of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. While they can also occur in kids and teens, these injuries can happen whether or not people play sports. While many children can get injured on the field, the numbers are mostly declining – and sports are important for their physical and mental health, doctors say. They explain how to prevent and treat sports injury in kids. How many kids get injured playing sports Overall injuries due to youth participation in football show a dramatic decline since 2013, plateauing in 2020 and heading back up in 2021, according to the most recent figures from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Children should receive an hour of exercise per day. WavebreakMediaMicro/Adobe Stock Convincing your child to leave the screens behind to exercise is hard. Heres how to do it More than a million kids ages 5 to 14 were injured in sports and required a trip to the emergency room, according to the commission. Along with sports like basketball, soccer and football, the agency also reported significant injuries from things like playground equipment and skateboards. Children between the ages of 5 and 14 were most likely to be injured in football in 2021 : There were 110,171 reported injuries in children ages 5 to 14 in 2021, compared to 92,802 in youth and young adults aged 15 to 24. Soccer and basketball were also high risk for kids ’ injuries with 59,000 and 79,207 injuries, respectively. The sports with the highest rates of concussion were : boys ’ football, with 10.4 concussions per 10,000 athlete exposures ; girls ’ soccer, with 8.19 per 10,000 athlete exposures ; and boys ’ ice hockey, with 7.69 per 10,000 athlete exposures, according to a 2019 study. High contact sports like hockey, football, lacrosse and martial arts might be higher risk for serious injuries such as head injury, but even seemingly safer sports like swimming and track pose some risk for overuse injuries. And they all can be made safer with the right strategy, said Dr. Erin Grieb, pediatric primary care sports medicine physician at Stanford Medicine Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Stanford Medicine Center. Here’s what to do if your child plays sports. What to look out for When it comes to cardiac events, screening is crucial, Stuart Berger said. Generally, kids are safe to play sports and exercise without concern for cardiac events, but with all types of sports, it is important to do a physical with family history to identify those who might be at risk, he added. ‘ The concerns are that maybe there is somebody with an underlying cardiac abnormality, the screening is designed to bring that out and that we can identify, if possible, who those kids are.

Stuart Berger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ...

George Orwell, 1984

added by Normando
4 years ago

There’s no reason such a young patient should have it, except as a congenital abnormality or medication induced.

Somwail Rasla

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Early detection can lead to prevention of developing diabetes and heart disease, patients are more likely to change their lifestyle when they know they have a related abnormality.

Richard Legro

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

In my experience as a clinician, as well as some studies that have been undertaken, many of the individuals who are family members have symptoms, though they may not have complained of those symptoms to their doctors, sometimes because they did not realize they were an abnormality and sometimes because they were never asked, in that circumstance, I often find in my practice that patients who go on a gluten-free diet, who themselves did not even appreciate the symptoms, often feel better.

Joseph Murray

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These are genetic abnormalities, and we’ve identified some of the genes associated with venous malformation but not all of them, it’s clearly a genetic abnormality, but the abnormal gene was not throughout his entire body— only in a certain region of the face.

Milton Waner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It’s clearly a genetic abnormality, but the abnormal gene was not throughout his entire body— only in a certain region of the face.

Milton Waner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Even at the young age, the heart is a muscle...there are 16-year-olds that can have an enlarged heart from muscle, so it looks like an athlete EKG. It has higher voltage. Pediatricians say this is abnormal, but a sports medicine specialist would say that's the typical pattern of a trained athlete, untrained physicians overcall abnormality and that leads to further testing.

Damion Martins

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The vast majority of these babies are totally normal babies who just happen to have an abnormality of the urinary tract that has to be dealt with. It’s very fixable.

Patricio Gargollo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This means that deviated nose is not a simple nose problem in many cases, but is complex issue related with facial skeleton abnormality.

Yong Ju Jang

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Maybe it’s not going to be the gross abnormality that could n’t produce the healthy child but maybe there will be some subtler things in that child’s later fertility or learning ability, for example.

Bridgit Danner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Taken together, these findings show that any abnormality in the way BDNF communicates with its receptor and its associated intracardiac signaling appears to unlock a cascade of chemical glitches that eventually leads to poor cardiac function.

Ning Feng

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Trying to be normal is the greatest abnormality in the world.

Becky Alunan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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