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from the breathe-deeply-and-count-backwards-from-100 dept.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-anesthesia-idUSKBN1322D3
Kids who are exposed to surgical anesthesia before age four tend to have slightly lower school grades at age 16 compared to other kids, but the difference is very small and shouldn't discourage parents from proceeding with necessary surgeries, researchers say.
The "low overall difference in academic performance after childhood exposure to surgery is reassuring," they write in JAMA Pediatrics.
Studying the health and school records of more than 2 million children born in Sweden between 1973 and 1993, the researchers identified 33,000 children who had one surgery with anesthesia before age four and 159,000 children who were similar in most ways but had not had surgery or anesthesia before age 16.
On average, kids who'd had anesthesia had 0.41 percent lower school grades at age 16 and 0.97 percent lower intelligence quotient (IQ) scores at age 18.
Association of Anesthesia and Surgery During Childhood With Long-term Academic Performance (open, DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.3470) (DX)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @09:51PM
everybody knows that 4 years before the age of 10 equals about 30 years before 100.
so if you miss 5 minutes as a kid before 10 then that equals multiple months as a grown up.
that's how life works.
so if you get "put under" as a kid you miss out ALOT. (miss one week in school and YOU"RE FUCKED FOR LIFE, rather).
anyone being a stock broker or even moon lighting as one, knows that every second counts.
now imagine this same pressure but it doesnt affect your fiat currency-like-las-vegas-gambling world but rather your "existing as a being growing
up in universe with space-and-time intermingled (maybe tachyons you have to hunt?), higgs-field permeated and the being up-to-date with the
latest 8 year old hoty your having a crush on.
seconds count when you're growing up, man! anesthetics is bad, man!