abstract：BACKGROUND:Reference values for hematological and biochemical assays in pregnant women and in newborn infants are based primarily on Caucasian populations. Normative data are limited for populations in sub-Saharan Africa, especially comparing women with and without HIV infection, and comparing infants with and without ...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Mwinga K,Vermund SH,Chen YQ,Mwatha A,Read JS,Urassa W,Carpenetti N,Valentine M,Goldenberg RL

更新日期：2009-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limited information is available in Iraq regarding the causes of under-five mortality. The vital registration system is deficient in its coverage, particularly from rural areas where access to health services is limited and most deaths occur at home, i.e. outside the health system, and hence the cause of dea...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Awqati NA,Ali MM,Al-Ward NJ,Majeed FA,Salman K,Al-Alak M,Al-Gasseer N

更新日期：2009-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cochrane Neonatal Review Group (CNRG) has achieved a lot with limited resources in producing high quality systematic reviews to assist clinicians in evidence-based decision-making. A formal assessment of published CNRG systematic reviews has not been undertaken; we sought to provide a comprehensive asses...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Al Faleh K,Al-Omran M

更新日期：2009-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effects of television to language development in infants and toddlers, especially in the Asian children, are inconclusive. This study aimed to (a) study time spent on television in Thai infants and toddlers (age < 2 years), (b) investigate the association between time spent on television (as recommended by t...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Ruangdaraganon N,Chuthapisith J,Mo-suwan L,Kriweradechachai S,Udomsubpayakul U,Choprapawon C

更新日期：2009-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma is a serious global health problem and its prevalence is increasing, especially among children. It represents a significant social and economic burden, and it can severely affect the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of patients. Among the numerous questionnaires aiming at evaluating asthma HRQL i...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Ricci G,Dondi A,Baldi E,Bendandi B,Giannetti A,Masi M

更新日期：2009-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteomyelitis can be difficult to diagnose and there has previously not been a prospective approach to identify all children in a defined geographic area. The aim of this study was to assess the annual incidence of osteomyelitis in children, describe the patient and disease characteristics in those with acut...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Riise ØR,Kirkhus E,Handeland KS,Flatø B,Reiseter T,Cvancarova M,Nakstad B,Wathne KO

更新日期：2008-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS), although traditionally clinical, is now increasingly dependent on radiological corroboration. The rate of negative exploration in IHPS has been reported as 4%. The purpose of our study was to look at elements of supportive clinical evidence lea...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Mullassery D,Mallappa S,Shariff R,Craigie RJ,Losty PD,Kenny SE,Pilling D,Baillie CT

更新日期：2008-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infants born at extreme prematurity are at high risk of developmental disability. A major risk factor for disability is having a low level of thyroid hormone described as hypothyroxinaemia, which is recognised to be a frequent phenomenon in these infants. Derangements of critical thyroid function during the ...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Ng SM,Turner MA,Gamble C,Didi M,Victor S,Malamateniou C,Parkes LM,Tietze A,Gregory L,Sluming V,Abernethy L,Weindling AM

更新日期：2008-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reduce the risk of brain damage children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) are nowadays mainly treated with intrathecal chemotherapy (ITC) instead of central nervous system (CNS) radiation therapy (CRT) to prevent CNS relapse. However, chemotherapy may also lead to cognitive deficits. As growth hor...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Huisman J,Aukema EJ,Deijen JB,van Coeverden SC,Kaspers GJ,van der Pal HJ,Delemarre-van de Waal HA

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The child growth standards released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006 have several technical advantages over the previous 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)/WHO reference and are recommended for international comparisons and secular trend analysis of child malnutrition. To obtain ...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Yang H,de Onis M

更新日期：2008-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess the effectiveness of physical therapy (PT) interventions on functioning in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS:A search was made in Medline, Cinahl, PEDro and the Cochrane library for the period 1990 to February 2007. Only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on PT interventions in children ...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Anttila H,Autti-Rämö I,Suoranta J,Mäkelä M,Malmivaara A

更新日期：2008-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about how pediatricians or internists manage influenza symptoms. Recent guidelines on antiviral prescribing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) make almost no distinction between adults and children. Our objective was to describe how pediatricians in two large academic med...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Rothberg MB,Bonner AB,Rajab MH,Stechenberg BW,Rose DN

更新日期：2008-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Zambia. Like many other African nations with high HIV burden, heterosexual intercourse is the commonest mode of HIV spread. The estimation of prevalence and factors associated with sexual intercourse among in-school adolescents has potential to inform publ...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Siziya S,Muula AS,Kazembe LN,Rudatsikira E

更新日期：2008-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a serious, debilitating condition that causes significant physical, emotional, and functional impairment. The condition is characterized by destructive weight loss behaviours and a refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height. AN often deve...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Spettigue W,Buchholz A,Henderson K,Feder S,Moher D,Kourad K,Gaboury I,Norris M,Ledoux S

更新日期：2008-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to characterize total homocysteine (tHcy) levels at birth in preterm and term infants and identify associations with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and other neonatal outcomes such as mortality, sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and thrombocytopen...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Sturtz WJ,Leef KH,Mackley AB,Sharma S,Bottiglieri T,Paul DA

更新日期：2007-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2006, a new rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq) was licensed in the US and recommended for routine immunization of all US infants. Because a previously licensed vaccine (Rotashield) was withdrawn from the US for safety concerns, identifying barriers to uptake of RotaTeq will help develop strategies to broaden vac...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Patel MM,Janssen AP,Tardif RR,Herring M,Parashar UD

更新日期：2007-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than 90% of heart murmurs in children are innocent. Frequently the skills of the first examiner are not adequate to differentiate between innocent and pathological murmurs. Our goal was to evaluate the value of a simple and low-cost phonocardiographic recording and analysis system in determining the cha...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Noponen AL,Lukkarinen S,Angerla A,Sepponen R

更新日期：2007-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Passive smoking unfavorably affects pregnancy, child birth and child health. Passive smoking associates with still-birth, premature birth as well as acute respiratory infection, asthma, disorder in red blood cell metabolism in children. This study examined the effects of passive smoking on anemia in young ch...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Hong R,Betancourt JA,Ruiz-Beltran M

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies address the use of paediatric highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in Africa. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study to investigate preliminary outcomes of all children eligible for HAART at Sinikithemba HIV/AIDS clinic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Immunologic, virologic, c...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Reddi A,Leeper SC,Grobler AC,Geddes R,France KH,Dorse GL,Vlok WJ,Mntambo M,Thomas M,Nixon K,Holst HL,Karim QA,Rollins NC,Coovadia HM,Giddy J

更新日期：2007-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) and associated risk factors in school children 8 to 13 years of age. METHODS:Elementary school children (n = 1,066) were examined. Associations between HBP, body mass index (BMI), gender, ethnicity, and acanthosis nigrica...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Urrutia-Rojas X,Egbuchunam CU,Bae S,Menchaca J,Bayona M,Rivers PA,Singh KP

更新日期：2006-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) is so rare in developed countries with measles immunization programs that national active surveillance is now needed to capture sufficient number of cases for meaningful analysis of data. Through the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (CPSP), the SSPE study wa...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Campbell C,Levin S,Humphreys P,Walop W,Brannan R

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Care procedures for preventing neonatal diseases are carried out according to nurseries' traditions and may be not consistent with the evidence based medicine issues. METHODS:A multi-centric survey was conducted in 2 Regions located in NW Italy (Piedmont and Aosta Valley) in order to collect information on ...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Guala A,Guarino R,Zaffaroni M,Martano C,Fabris C,Pastore G,Bona G,Neonatal Piedmont Group.

更新日期：2005-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increased survival of preterm and very low birth weight infants in recent years has been well documented but continued surveillance is required in order to monitor the effects of new therapeutic interventions. Gestation and birth weight specific survival rates most accurately reflect the outcome of perin...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Jones HP,Karuri S,Cronin CM,Ohlsson A,Peliowski A,Synnes A,Lee SK,Canadian Neonatal Network.

更新日期：2005-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased survival of extremely low birth infants due to advances in antenatal and neonatal care has resulted in a population of infants at high risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Therapeutic interventions include the use of antenatal and postnatal steroids however, their effects on the sev...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Karna P,Muttineni J,Angell L,Karmaus W

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For treatment of Graf class IIb dysplastic hips at walking onset a treatment concept with abduction splints allowing patterns as walking and crawling under constant abduction control was investigated. However, as the splint still incapacitates child movements the research question remains whether the physiol...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Windhagen H,Thorey F,Kronewid H,Pressel T,Herold D,Stukenborg-Colsman C

更新日期：2005-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are no standard criteria for when to discontinue intravenous antimicrobial therapy (IVAMT) in children with febrile neutropenia (FN), but it is now common to discontinue IVAMT and discharge patients with an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < or = 500/mm3. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ou...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Hodgson-Viden H,Grundy PE,Robinson JL

更新日期：2005-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mucopolysaccharidoses are heritable, metabolic diseases caused by deficiency in an activity of one of specific lysosomal enzymes involved in degradation of mucoplysaccharides (glycosaminoglycans). Among many medical problems of patients with mucopolysaccharidoses, there are frequent episodes of diarrhea of u...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Wegrzyn G,Kurlenda J,Liberek A,Tylki-Szymanska A,Czartoryska B,Piotrowska E,Jakóbkiewicz-Banecka J,Wegrzyn A

更新日期：2005-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to elicit preference weights from parents for health states corresponding to children with various levels of severity of atopic dermatitis. We also evaluated the hypothesis that parents with children who had been diagnosed with atopic dermatitis would assign different preferences to the health stat...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Friedman JY,Reed SD,Weinfurt KP,Kahler KH,Walter EB,Schulman KA

更新日期：2004-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The adiposity rebound is the second rise in body mass index that occurs between 3 and 7 years. An early age at adiposity rebound is known to be a risk factor for later obesity. The aim here is to clarify the connection between the age at rebound and the corresponding pattern of body mass index change, in cen...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Cole TJ

更新日期：2004-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have shown that girls who undergo menarche at a relatively young age tend to be more obese as adults. However, because childhood (pre-menarcheal) levels of weight and height are associated with an earlier menarche, the increased prevalence of adult obesity among early maturers may largely ref...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Freedman DS,Khan LK,Serdula MK,Dietz WH,Srinivasan SR,Berenson GS,Bogalusa heart study.

更新日期：2003-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to document the clinical, laboratory and genetic features of galactosemia in patients from the Cape Town metropolitan region. METHODS:Diagnoses were based on thin layer chromatography for galactosuria/galactosemia and assays of erythrocyte galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransfer...

journal_title：BMC pediatrics

authors： Henderson H,Leisegang F,Brown R,Eley B

更新日期：2002-09-02 00:00:00