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From : Maria Majewska
Date : Mon, 14 May 2012 06:35:59 +0200
Subject : Wyjątkowe zdrowie Amiszów
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Witam,
Amerykańscy Amisze są grupą społeczną (oryginalnie wywodzącą się z emigrantów holenderskich), która żyje na farmach zgodnie z naturą i na ogół nie stosuje współczesnej medycyny alopatycznej. Korzystają głównie z medycyny naturalnej i ostrej (pogotowie, chirurgia, rzadko antybiotyki), lecz nie z „medycyny prewencyjnej”. Wiadomo, że bardzo rzadko szczepią oni swoje dzieci. Wcześniej wykazano, że w wśród Amiszów praktycznie nie ma przypadków autyzmu (http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/05/dan-olmsted-the-amish-all-over-again.html<span >), a umieralność ich niemowląt nie różni się od umieralności innych niemowląt białych Amerykanów żyjących w danej okolicy. Natomiast wystandaryzowana pod względem wieku umieralność Amiszów w 1960 r. była o 19% niższa od średniej w USA.
Ostatnie doniesienia naukowe podają, że dzieci Amiszów mają również znacznie mniej niż inne rozmaitych alergii i rzadziej cierpią na astmę. Wśród 6-12 latków Amiszów tylko 7,2 % wykazywało sensytyzację i reakcje alergiczne, podczas gdy w USA wg. narodowego sondażu (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) ok. 54,3 % populacji cierpi na jakieś formy sensytyzacji i alergii. Dla porównania ok. 25% szwajcarskich dzieci żyjących na farmach miało różne alergie, oraz ok 44.2 dzieci miejskich.
Amisze znacznie rzadziej chorują też na choroby nowotworowe.
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Am J Epidemiol. 1994 Jan 15;139(2):173-83.
Perinatal, infant, and child death rates among the Old Order Amish.
Source
Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Abstract
The Old Order Amish are a distinct ethnic group with a very high birth rate and patterns of perinatal risk factors quite different from those of the general population. This study reports marital fertility and perinatal, infant, and child death rates for an entire Amish settlement of approximately 10,000 individuals, centered around Geauga County, Ohio. All 6,623 births from 1948 to 1988 listed in a directory of Geauga Settlement Amish households were studied. The childbearing experience of all 475 married women over the age of 44 years was also described. Women aged > 44 years had a median of 8.3 births; 24% of the births were to women aged > 34 years. Despite a higher prevalence of several risk factors for perinatal and infant death among the Amish, neonatal and infant death rates for Geauga Settlement Amish have been very similar to the corresponding rates for white children in rural Ohio and the state as a whole. The beneficial aspects of Amish society that may lessen the impact of perinatal risk factors on mortality merit further study.
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Coll Antropol. 1997 Jun;21(1):67-82.
Biocultural approaches to health and mortality in an Old Order Amish community.
Source
Health Services Administration, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY 14201, USA.
Abstract
The assumption that Amish cultural value of cooperation leads to greater longevity, prosperity and well-being among elders was examined using historical demographic and ethnographic analysis in a conservative Old Order Amish community. Migration, fertility, mortality and morbidity data since 1948 were used to identify population structure. The population pyramid in the Amish community (3% of the population over age 60, compared to 18% of the neighboring non-Amish rural area) is largely determined by natural fertility with low infant mortality. Household ethnography explored health beliefs, access to health care, caregiving patterns, and economic strategies. The perception that community cooperation and altruistic behavior were of benefit to Amish health is supported by mortality rates. Amish age standardized death rates were 19% below the US death rate in 1960. Migrating to form new communities and selectively utilizing acute (but not preventive or public) health care services, emerged as strong cultural patterns that facilitate reproductive success among the Amish.
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J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012 Apr 16. [Epub ahead of print]
Amish children living in Northern Indiana have a very low prevalence of allergic sensitization.
Holbreich M, Genuneit J, Weber J, Braun-Fahrlaender C, Waser M, von Mutius E.
Source Allergy and Asthma Consultants, Indianapolis, Ind.
Cancer Causes Control. 2010 Jan;21(1):69-75. Epub 2009 Sep 25.
Low cancer incidence rates in Ohio Amish.
Westman JA, Ferketich AK, Kauffman RM, MacEachern SN, Wilkins JR 3rd, Wilcox PP, Pilarski RT, Nagy R, Lemeshow S, de la Chapelle A, Bloomfield CD.
Source
Division of Human Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The Amish have not been previously studied for cancer incidence, yet they have the potential to help in the understanding of its environmental and genetic contributions. The purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence of cancer among the largest Amish population.
METHODS:
Adults from randomly selected households were interviewed and a detailed cancer family history was taken. Using both the household interview data and a search of the Ohio cancer registry data, a total of 191 cancer cases were identified between the years 1996 and 2003.
RESULTS:
The age-adjusted cancer incidence rate for all cancers among the Amish adults was 60% of the age-adjusted adult rate in Ohio (389.5/10(5) vs. 646.9/10(5); p < 0.0001). The incidence rate for tobacco-related cancers in the Amish was 37% of the rate for Ohio adults (p < 0.0001). The incidence rate for non-tobacco-related cancers in the Amish was 72% of the age-adjusted adult rate in Ohio (p = 0.0001).
CONCLUSION:
Cancer incidence is low in the Ohio Amish. These data strongly support reduction of cancer incidence by tobacco abstinence but cannot be explained solely on this basis. Understanding these contributions may help to identify additional important factors to target to reduce cancer among the non-Amish.