Kids' 'screen time' linked to early markers for cardiovascular disease
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Six-year-olds who spent the most time watching television, using a computer or playing video games had narrower arteries in the back of their eyes a marker of future cardiovascular risk, in a first-of-its-kind study reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association.