{"id":37,"date":"2008-11-25T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/study-many-kids-in-katrina-trailer-park-anemic.html"},"modified":"2008-11-25T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T10:46:00","slug":"study-many-kids-in-katrina-trailer-park-anemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/study-many-kids-in-katrina-trailer-park-anemic.html","title":{"rendered":"Study: Many kids in Katrina trailer park anemic"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 11\/25\/2008<br \/><br \/>By JANET McCONNAUGHEY<br \/>Associated Press Writer<br \/><br \/>NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana&#8217;s biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate more than four times the national average.<br \/><br \/>About 41 percent of 77 children under the age of 4 suffered from the condition this year, according to a study released Monday by the Children&#8217;s Health Fund. Most, and possibly all, lived in the Renaissance Village trailer park in Baker.<br \/><br \/>Iron deficiency anemia can cause fatigue and learning problems. Severe deficiency in young children can delay growth and development and even cause heart murmurs.<br \/><br \/>The national rate for children that young is below 10 percent. Louisiana has one of the nation&#8217;s highest anemia rates, with about 24 percent of all children below the age of 5 affected, according to the 2007 Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance survey.<br \/><br \/>Dr. Irwin Redlener, president of the Children&#8217;s Health Fund and director of Columbia University&#8217;s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, said the Renaissance Village rate was double the rate for homeless children the same age in New York City shelters.<br \/><br \/>The study used records for all 261 babies and children who lived in New Orleans until Katrina and were treated last year at CHF&#8217;s mobile clinics at the trailer park and Baton Rouge schools, said Roy Grant, the organization&#8217;s director of applied research and policy analysis.<br \/><br \/>While most of the affected children were storm evacuees, it was possible that a few were natives of Baton Rouge.<br \/><br \/>But studying the problem further and providing follow-up care for the children is difficult because the state closed the parks in May.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s more difficult, because they&#8217;re no longer in the trailer area. They&#8217;re dispersed around the state. So it&#8217;s a little harder to get follow-up,&#8221; said Dr. Jimmy Guidry, Louisiana&#8217;s health officer.<br \/><br \/>___<br \/><br \/>On the Net:<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nccdphp\/dnpa\/nutrition\/nutrition_for_everyone iro n_defici ency\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nccdphp\/dnpa\/nutrition\/nutrition_for_everyone iro n_defici ency\/index.htm<\/a><br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 11\/25\/2008By JANET McCONNAUGHEYAssociated Press WriterNEW ORLEANS (AP) _ Dozens of infants and toddlers who lived in Louisiana&#8217;s biggest trailer park for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina were anemic because of poor diets, at a rate more than four times the national average.About 41 percent of 77 children under the age of 4 suffered from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,54,108,184,183,180,181,179,178,177],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anemia","tag-child-health","tag-childrens-health-fund","tag-heart-murmers","tag-katrina-aftermath","tag-katrina-children","tag-katrina-infants","tag-katrina-trailer-park","tag-katrina-trailer-park-health","tag-renaissance-village-trailer-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}