Special educational needs, social care and health.

abstract：:Fifty Asian immigrant mothers who would have expected to breast feed their infants had they remained in rural Asia were studied. There was a striking reduction in the incidence and duration of breast feeding on arrival in the United Kingdom, and a fall in the age of weaning. The availability of an alternative to human...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Evans N,Walpole IR,Qureshi MU,Memon MH,Everley Jones HW

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decision to participate in infant screening often rests with parents. Medical ethics require that parental decision is elicited from informed choice. Such a decision is influenced by the parental knowledge and attitude towards screening and a careful evaluation of these factors is essential in seeking informed con...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Olusanya BO,Luxon LM,Wirz SL

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically useful criteria were found by studying immunological functions on admission in 15 African children with acute hepatitis (AH) (11 of whom were HBsAg positive) and in 11 children with fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) (8 of whom were HBsAg positive), and by comparing these results with normal controls. Nine of ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mackenjee MK,Kiepiela P,Cooper R,Coovadia HM

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent famine in Ethiopia has resulted in the dislocation of millions of people. Many of these individuals have moved to refugee camps in Sudan or to feeding centres within Ethiopia. A total of 1325 children up to the age of 15 years were examined by an ophthalmologist in January 1985 at several sites in these two...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pizzarello LD

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Perinatal stress is thought to underlie the Barker sequelae of low birth weight, of which precocious pubarche may be a manifestation. AIMS:To explore whether prematurity as well as smallness for gestational age (SGA) predisposes to precocious pubarche, and the potential role of excess weight gain during chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Neville KA,Walker JL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop and implement an evidence based guideline for the treatment of acute asthma using a metered dose inhaler and spacer combination. METHODS:Defined strategies were used for the development and implementation of a guideline, assessed by a prospective, descriptive, study using notes review, and patient, nur...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Powell CV,Maskell GR,Marks MK,South M,Robertson CF

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference range for head circumference on the Tanner charts do not go beyond age 16. In this study the head circumference and heights of 354 adults in two British centres were measured. The centile charts constructed from these measurements show that adult head circumference is related to height. The mean head circumf...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bushby KM,Cole T,Matthews JN,Goodship JA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) may be susceptible to skeletal morbidity. AIM:To determine the incidence and risk factors for skeletal morbidity in ALL children. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The medical records of all (n=186, boys=110) children presenting to a single centre ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elmantaser M,Stewart G,Young D,Duncan R,Gibson B,Ahmed SF

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real time ultrasonography of the pelvic organs was performed on 114 normal premenarcheal girls aged between 2 years and 13 years 11 months. Values were obtained for total uterine length, anteroposterior diameters of the corpus and cervix, corpus/cervix ratio, and uterine and ovarian volumes and the resultant data were...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Salardi S,Orsini LF,Cacciari E,Bovicelli L,Tassoni P,Reggiani A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D among healthy adolescent schoolgirls attending an inner city multiethnic girls' school. METHODS:Fifty one (28%) of 182 girls (14 white, 37 non-white; median age 15.3 years, range 14.7-16.6) took part in the study. Biochemical parameters, dietary vitamin D intake, m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Das G,Crocombe S,McGrath M,Berry JL,Mughal MZ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a multicentre study on perinatal HIV-I infection including 1493 children born from 1471 pregnancies to 1415 infected mothers, 22 twin pairs and 56 sibships (115 children) were recorded. The frequency of twin pregnancies was 1.5 (22/1471) and 3.9% (56/1415) seropositive women had more than one at risk pregnancy. In ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： de Martino M,Tovo PA,Galli L,Caselli D,Gabiano C,Mazzoni PL,Giacomelli A,Duse M,Fundarò C

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Assessment of the efficacy of vitamin D replenishment and maintenance doses required to attain optimal levels in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). METHOD:25(OH)-vitamin D levels and concurrent vitamin D dosage were collected from retrospective case-note review of boys with DMD at the Dubowitz Neuromuscu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Alshaikh N,Brunklaus A,Davis T,Robb SA,Quinlivan R,Munot P,Sarkozy A,Muntoni F,Manzur AY,Dubowitz Neuromuscular Team.

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental to appropriate nutritional prescription is an understanding of the conditions necessary for growth that include the requirements for energy in health and illness. Energy requirements need to be met by the dietary intake to prevent weight loss. A positive energy balance will result in weight gain. Energy re...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wiskin AE,Davies JH,Wootton SA,Beattie RM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the incidence of both neonatal respiratory distress syndrome and neonatal mortality can be reduced by giving corticosteroids to women expected to deliver preterm and by giving surfactant to babies at high risk of developing hyaline membrane disease, we have considered what effects the adoption of one or both o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mugford M,Piercy J,Chalmers I

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:UK screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is based on dried blood spot Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH). Scintigraphy may identify CH subtypes classified as dysplasia, gland in situ (GIS) and ectopia, but is not performed in all centres. We retrospectively investigated the role of scintigraphy to id...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Worth C,Hird B,Tetlow L,Wright N,Patel L,Banerjee I

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children at three inner city child health clinics were offered haemoglobin estimation by fingerprick blood test when attending for immunisation against measles. Of the 98 immunised, 92 (94%) participated in the study, together with 58 other children. Anaemia (haemoglobin concentration less than 110 g/l) was found in 3...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marder E,Nicoll A,Polnay L,Shulman CE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the efficacy of a new regimen of intravenous atropine treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) with special reference to regression of pyloric hypertrophy. METHODS:Atropine was given intravenously at a dose of 0.01 mg/kg six times a day before feeding in 19 patients with IHPS diagnos...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kawahara H,Imura K,Nishikawa M,Yagi M,Kubota A

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples from the pharynx, stomach, duodenum or jejunum, and faeces were collected on 7 days between 1st and 28th day from neonates weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth who were fed by transpyloric tube. These were cultured on selective and non-selective media, and the results were expressed in a semi-quantitative manner...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Dellagrammaticas HD,Duerden BI,Milner RD

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate gastric emptying in girls with Turner's syndrome to detect if gastrointestinal motor dysfunction was present. SUBJECTS:Thirteen girls (mean age 8.1 years) with Turner's syndrome, seven girls with familial short stature (6.1 years), and eight control girls (7.6 years). METHODS:Gastric emptying studies ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Staiano A,Salerno M,Di Maio S,Marsullo G,Marino A,Concolino D,Strisciuglio P

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychotropic medication use by children in the USA has increased. We used the IMS MIDAS Prescribing Insights to examine prescribing trends in nine countries between the years 2000 and 2002. Trends in seven countries rose significantly from year 2000 to 2002; the UK had the highest increase (68%). ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Wong IC,Murray ML,Camilleri-Novak D,Stephens P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The status of 732 children suffering from cerebral palsy from the South East Thames region (births from 1970-9) was ascertained at the end of 1989, and copies of death certificates of the 73 children who have died, aged 4 weeks to nearly 16 years, were obtained. Infantile cerebral palsy (ICD Code 343-) was coded as th...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Evans PM,Alberman E

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Asian babies were investigated because they failed to thrive. In all four cases the failure to thrive was a result of the mother's social isolation and inability to communicate, and to the father's refusal to accept that there was a problem in the family. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Fenton TR,Bhat R,Davies A,West R

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate possible renal toxicity of long-term gentamicin inhalation in patients with cystic fibrosis. METHODS:Urinary N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) activity was measured during routine respiratory clinic visits. Outpatient records were reviewed for data on long-term gentamicin inhalation, and p...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ring E,Eber E,Erwa W,Zach MS

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the epidemiology, clinical profile and risk factors of pseudotumor cerebri syndrome (PTCS) in children aged 1-16 years. METHODS:A national prospective population-based cohort study over 25 months. Newly diagnosed PTCS cases notified via British Paediatric Surveillance Unit were ascertained using cla...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Matthews YY,Dean F,Lim MJ,Mclachlan K,Rigby AS,Solanki GA,White CP,Whitehouse WP,Kennedy CR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acute paediatrics, overtreatment and overdiagnosis is encountered in threshold and developed countries. The reason for overtreatment may be similar in the two settings, namely the mere availability of invasive procedures, which may lead to their inappropriate use. Physiological healing processes should be integrate...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frey B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the safety of bronchoscopy and endobronchial biopsy in children with difficult asthma, and discuss the ethical issues associated with the procedure. METHODS:A three year prospective observational study was performed in two tertiary paediatric respiratory centres specialising in the management of chi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Payne D,McKenzie SA,Stacey S,Misra D,Haxby E,Bush A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare physiological and autonomic responses to acute hypoglycaemia in diabetic children in pre-, mid-, and post-pubertal stages of development. METHODS:Twenty seven children (8 pre-pubertal, 7 mid-pubertal, 12 post-pubertal) with type 1 diabetes were studied. Hypoglycaemia was induced by insulin infusion unt...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ross LA,Warren RE,Kelnar CJ,Frier BM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To determine the prevalence of cough, wheeze, and breathlessness, both as single symptoms and in combination, in primary schoolchildren and their relation to doctor diagnosed asthma. (2) To identify in areas with different levels of dust pollution whether questionnaire reported 'cough alone' (without whe...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kelly YJ,Brabin BJ,Milligan PJ,Reid JA,Heaf D,Pearson MG

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the risk of skin cancer in persons treated with neonatal phototherapy (NNPT) for jaundice. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Grampian Region, Scotland, UK. DATA SOURCE:Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank. NNPT exposure was abstracted from paper records spanning 1976-1990. Follow-up ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Brewster DH,Tucker JS,Fleming M,Morris C,Stockton DL,Lloyd DJ,Bhattacharya S,Chalmers JW

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A girl was born to a mother who had undergone treatment for epilepsy with carbamazepine during pregnancy. The infant had dysmorphic features and was physically and mentally retarded. We consider that the malformations were the result of the maternal treatment with carbamazepine. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Vestermark V,Vestermark S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00