login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Adolescents may Not Get Headaches Due to the Use of Computer Games, Mobiles, TV
The study of 1025 13-17 year olds found no association between the use of electronic media and headaches.
However, listening to one or two hours of music every day was associated with a pounding head.
Astrid Milde-Busch, from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, and colleagues studied the links between exposure to electronics and the prevalence and type of headaches.
"Excessive use of electronic media is often reported to be associated with long-lasting adverse effects on health like obesity or lack of regular exercise, or unspecific symptoms like tiredness, stress, concentration difficulties and sleep disturbances," she said.
"Studies into the occurrence of headaches have had mixed results and for some types of media, in particular computer games, are completely lacking," she added.
The researchers interviewed 489 teenagers who claimed to suffer from headaches and 536 who said they did not.
When the two groups were compared, no associations were found for television viewing, electronic gaming, mobile phone usage or computer usage.
|
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
|
|
- News Quick Links
 |
Headache
Complete Medindia Resources
|
| News Categories: |
| » | Scientists Develop Compound That Triggers Cancer Cell Death |
| » | Iraqi National Hopes to Find Affordable Treatment for His Cancer in India |
| » | New Technique can Help Doctors Detect Pancreatic Cancer |
| » | Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors Probed |
| » | Breast MRI 'Better Than Clinical Approach for Predicting Chemotherapy's Efficiency' |
| More Cancer News | |
|
