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To find out how this might affect health outcomes in early adolescence, researchers looked at data from more than 10,000 youth in more than 21 states who'd been tracked since late childhood.
They found that tweens who had their own smartphone at age 12 were more likely to have obesity, symptoms of depression, and report insufficient sleep compared to their peers without phones.
And the younger they got their phones, the higher their risk for some of these conditions.
The researchers say they hope their findings will help inform the creation of guidelines on the appropriate age at which kids should first get their own smartphones.
About half of all children in the U.S.
have their own smartphone by age 11.
To find out how this might affect health outcomes in early adolescence, researchers looked at data from more than 10,000 youth in more than 21 states who'd been tracked since late childhood.
They found that tweens who had their own smartphone at age 12 were more likely to have obesity, symptoms of depression, and report insufficient sleep compared to their peers without phones.
And the younger they got their phones, the higher their risk for some of these conditions.
The researchers say they hope their findings will help inform the creation of guidelines on the appropriate age at which kids should first get their own smartphones.
The report says nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000.
That's more than any other childhood vaccine of the past 50 years.
Even so, an estimated 95,000 people, mostly children under age five, died from measles last year.
While that death toll is among the lowest in recent decades, WHO officials say it's still unacceptably high for a vaccine-preventable disease.
GLP-1 drugs have become increasingly popular among women of reproductive age, but women are advised to stop taking these medications before pregnancy because of potential risks to the fetus.
In the study, researchers from Mass General Brigham reviewed the medical records for nearly 1,800 pregnancies, primarily among women with obesity.