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- <text id=91TT1032>
- <title>
- May 13, 1991: Only The Lonely
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 13, 1991 Crack Kids
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MEDICINE, Page 54
- Only the Lonely
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Health risks for the single child
- </p>
- <p> Only children score better on IQ tests, reach higher levels
- of education and get more prestigious jobs than people with
- siblings. Look at Leonardo da Vinci, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph
- Stalin. But there is a price for fame and glory. "Onlies" are
- associated with a host of irksome psychological traits--among
- them impaired social skills and a nagging need for attention.
- Now it seems they may also suffer from a distinct physical
- handicap: higher blood pressure.
- </p>
- <p> According to a study by researchers at the State
- University of New York at Buffalo, men who do not have siblings
- are nearly twice as likely to suffer from hypertension as men
- who do. In women, the risk jumps by half as much as it does for
- men. The research, reported in a letter to the New England
- Journal of Medicine, did not determine whether only children
- have a increased risk of heart disease. But it may provoke
- second thoughts among the growing numbers of parents who for
- reasons of life-style or necessity are choosing to stop at one.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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