The nutritional cost of measles in Africa.

abstract：:This pilot study investigated the feasibility of surveying, anonymously, HCV infection among healthy children using an oral fluid specimen. Seventy seven per cent of children provided their assent, or where appropriate, consent to participate; 2.8% were anti-HCV positive. Oral fluid collection is acceptable to childre...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chatzipantazi P,Roy KM,Cameron SO,Goldberg D,Welbury R,Bagg J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inconsistencies have been reported in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in postoperative congenital heart disease (CHD). Despite the need for lifelong care due for residual symptoms, only a few studies have explored cardiac-related HRQOL but none in lower middle-income countries (LMIC). This study theref...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Ladak LA,Hasan BS,Gullick J,Awais K,Abdullah A,Gallagher R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish whether subjects with previous evidence of sleep apnoea prior to adenotonsillectomy continue to have evidence of narrower upper airways during sleep, 12 years later. METHODS:Twenty subjects (median age 16 years) underwent repeat sleep studies at home, 12 years after such studies had shown significant...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Tasker C,Crosby JH,Stradling JR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen per cent of children treated with growth hormone (GH) are receiving treatment for Turner syndrome, but few results are available on final height in the UK. In this study, data were obtained from the UK KIGS database for 485 girls with Turner syndrome who were treated from 1986, allowing an audit of practice an...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Betts PR,Butler GE,Donaldson MD,Dunger DB,Johnston DI,Kelnar CJ,Kirk J,Price DA,Wilton P

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3 year old girl with Down's syndrome became lethargic and withdrawn, and investigations showed a specific malabsorption of vitamin B12 without proteinuria. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cartlidge PH,Curnock DA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is well established as an initial therapy for Kawasaki disease (KD), but treatment for IVIG-resistant KD remains uncertain AIM:To analyse the effects of intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) pulse therapy compared with additional IVIG in IVIG-resistant patients. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Furukawa T,Kishiro M,Akimoto K,Nagata S,Shimizu T,Yamashiro Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the results of a prospective study in which 120 women who developed hypertension in the last trimester of pregnancy were randomly allocated in double blind manner to atenolol or placebo. The mean duration of treatment was five weeks. The only difference between groups during the neonatal period was in resp...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Reynolds B,Butters L,Evans J,Adams T,Rubin PC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 21 month old male infant who presented with failure to thrive associated with severe hypokalaemia and metabolic acidosis, together with hypomagnesaemia. Evaluation revealed marked renal and probable faecal potassium wasting, distal renal tubular acidosis, mild urinary magnesium wasting, and a normal gast...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Simpson AM,Schwartz GJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty nine preterm infants of between 1.0 and 2.0 kg birthweight who were fed 250 ml/kg/day of breast milk or standard formulas gained weight at the intrauterine rate without complications. It is suggested that high volume feeding is a satisfactory alternative to low birthweight formula milks and is more desirable in ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lewis MA,Smith BA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is becoming a common clinical headache for child health professionals, as the increase in professional and media concern has not been matched by effective clinical solutions. Added to this is considerable confusion about both the definitions of obesity and about which groups of children and adolescents actuall...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Viner R,Nicholls D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty five patients with encephalitis were studied prospectively, and their clinical and virological features compared with outcome. Among 22 patients with laboratory confirmation of virus infection, evidence of direct effect on the central nervous system by the virus occurred significantly more often both in those w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kennedy CR,Duffy SW,Smith R,Robinson RO

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc content of peripheral blood leucocytes from the cord blood of 63 normal and 20 preterm babies, and of 27 babies with evidence of idiopathic intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was measured. Leucocyte zinc depletion was present in babies with acute IUGR (IUGR babies compared with controls, mean 47.8 v 51.5 ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Meadows N,Ruse W,Keeling PW,Scopes JW,Thompson RP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the pathways by which children with cancer present to a shared care oncology unit. DESIGN:A population-based retrospective cohort study of children diagnosed with cancer between the years 2004 and 2014. SETTING:District General Hospital with a level 2 Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Unit. PATIE...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Roskin J,Diviney J,Nanduri V

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant feeding methods used by mothers who smoke and by mothers who do not, who delivered in one maternity hospital, were compared to determine if smoking affected breast feeding. Significantly more of the smoking group chose either to bottle feed from delivery or, having been discharged from the hospital breast feedi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lyon AJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:36 parents of infants who had died suddenly did not differ in frequency of atopic symptoms, immediate skin tests, IgE, IgE antibody, immunoglobulin G, A, and M, or yeast opsonisation, from 36 matched controls, although atopy was common (about half had atopy in both groups. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Warnasuriya N,Downham MA,Skelton A,Turner MW,Soothill JF

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age distribution of anginose infectious mononucleosis in children was analysed retrospectively for the years 1966-85. During that period the disease became significantly more common in children of a young age and less common in older children. This shift could not be attributed either to socioeconomic conditions o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spirer Z,Holtzman M,Melamed I,Shalit I

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Most babies receive at least some formula milk. Variations in formula-feeding practices can have both short- and long-term health consequences. The literature on parents' experiences of bottle-feeding was systematically reviewed to understand how formula-feeding decisions are made. METHODS:Relevant English-l...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lakshman R,Ogilvie D,Ong KK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To explore the clinical course of children with "single kidney" (defined as either a solitary or single functioning kidney) with reference to renal function (glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and proteinuria), body height and particularly sonomorphological features. PATIENTS AND METHODS:This retrospective monocent...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Spira EM,Jacobi C,Frankenschmidt A,Pohl M,von Schnakenburg C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological study of disease in a geographically identified population of 250 children is reported. 22% had not seen their general practitioner (GP) at all in the past year, while 20% had seen him four times or more. The vast majority of these visits were because of an infective illness; and developmental and b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bax M,Hart H

更新日期：1976-11-01 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：:A 19 day old infant was successfully resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation. The 12 lead ECG was normal, with a normal QT interval, and remains so over three years follow up. DNA analysis revealed a missense mutation (R1193Q) in the SCN5A gene, previously linked with familial sudden unexpected nocturnal death synd...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Skinner JR,Chung SK,Montgomery D,McCulley CH,Crawford J,French J,Rees MI

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Data suggest a potential role for vitamin D in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We wanted to assess the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation compared with placebo in children with ASD. DESIGN:This was a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. SETTING:A paediatric outpatient centre at high latitu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Kerley CP,Power C,Gallagher L,Coghlan D

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controlling lung inflammation may be the key to improving morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of inhaled corticosteroids on lung inflammation in cystic fibrosis. DESIGN:Double blind placebo controlled randomised sequence crossover trial. Fluticasone propionate (400 m...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Balfour-Lynn IM,Klein NJ,Dinwiddie R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 25 year period, 31 asthmatic children received artificial ventilation for acute asthma at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on 48 occasions. Altogether 47 episodes occurred from 1971-89, with no decline in the number of episodes per year (mean 2.5) over this period. Eight children died during intermittent positive ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Seddon PC,Heaf DP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with end stage renal failure and anaemia have an increased cardiac index and often gross ventricular hypertrophy. Correction of anaemia with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEpo) for less than six months results in a reduction in the cardiac index without a significant reduction in left ventricular hyper...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Morris KP,Skinner JR,Hunter S,Coulthard MG

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a five year period, 39 children (29 boys, 10 girls) aged 2 months to 13 years (mean 7.8 years) were studied who had suffered a major head injury (29 road traffic accidents, six falls, and four non-accidental injury). The injury had been assessed clinically and by cranial computed tomography or cranial ultrasound (i...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Elias-Jones AC,Punt JA,Turnbull AE,Jaspan T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. OBJECTIVE:To calculate potential cost savings attributable to increases in breastfeeding rates from the National Health Service perspective. DESIGN AND SETTINGS...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Pokhrel S,Quigley MA,Fox-Rushby J,McCormick F,Williams A,Trueman P,Dodds R,Renfrew MJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of zinc in the hair of 219 schoolchildren aged between 10 and 11 years was measured and related to height, weight, estimates of consumption of zinc-rich foods, number of children living at home, and rank in family. None of the correlation coefficients between hair zinc and the other variables was sig...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Heinersdorff N,Taylor TG

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellobiose and mannitol absorption were studied in patients with suspected abnormal function of the small bowel mucosa. The urinary cellobiose:mannitol ratio was increased in subtotal villous atrophy, iron deficiency anaemia, and small intestinal Crohn's disease. The test seems a sensitive indicator of the integrity o...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hodges S,Ashmore SP,Patel HR,Tanner MS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00