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Risk factors associated with scabies infestation among primary schoolchildren in a low socio-economic area in southeast of Iran

Scabies is a neglected tropical disease caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei that burrows under the skin. It is a major health problem in tropical areas, largely affecting children. Scabies is common and highly c...

Authors: Alireza Sanei-Dehkordi, Moussa Soleimani-Ahmadi, Mehdi Zare and Seyed Aghil Jaberhashemi

Rickets manifestations in a child with metaphyseal anadysplasia, report of a spontaneously resolving case

Rickets is not an unusual diagnosis for pediatricians even currently in developed countries. Children typically present with leg bowing, enlargement of wrists, rachitic rosary (swelling of costochondral juncti...

Authors: Patricia Diaz Escagedo, Melissa Fiscaletti, Patricia Olivier, Chloé Hudon, Valancy Miranda, Marie-Claude Miron, Philippe M. Campeau and Nathalie Alos

The education word gap emerges by 18 months: findings from an Australian prospective study

The idea of the ‘30 million word gap’ suggests families from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds engage in more verbal interactions with their child than disadvantaged families. Initial findings from...

Authors: Mary E. Brushe, John Lynch, Sheena Reilly, Edward Melhuish, Murthy N. Mittinty and Sally A. Brinkman

Family-based intervention to prevent childhood obesity among school-age children of low socioeconomic status: study protocol of the FIVALIN project

Childhood obesity represents a global public health crisis: the number of obese children and adolescents (aged 5–19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. The vast majority of overweight ...

Authors: C. Homs, P. Berruezo, G. Según, L. Estrada, J. de Bont, J. Riera-Romaní, E. Carrillo-Álvarez, H. Schröder, R. Milà and S. F. Gómez

Influences of persistent overweight on perceptual-motor proficiency of primary school children: the North-West CHILD longitudinal study

Overweight can be a precursor of poor motor execution, negatively impacting the overall development of school-aged children on various levels. This study determined the long-term influences of overweight on pe...

Authors: Elna de Waal and Anita Elizabeth Pienaar

Low compliance contribute to insufficient Desmopressin response of primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis and the role of voiding school

To evaluate the impact of compliance on the therapeutic effects of Desmopressin, as well as the importance of establishing the voiding school for low-compliance children in primary monosymptomatic enuresis tre...

Authors: Zoran Radojicic, Sasa Milivojevic, Irena Koricanac, Jelena Milin Lazovic, Darko Laketic, Ognjen Radojicic and Natasa Milic

The clinical value of passive leg raising plus ultrasound to predict fluid responsiveness in children after cardiac surgery

There are few non-invasive monitoring methods that can reliably predict fluid responsiveness (FR) in children. Here, we interrogate the value of doppler ultrasound evaluation of passive leg raising (PLR)-induc...

Authors: Deqiang Luo, Wei Dai, Lei Lei and Xueying Cai

Spinal arteriovenous malformation in a pediatric patient with a history of congenital syphilis: a case report

Spinal arteriovenous malformations in children are extremely rare and pose great risk for intraoperative hemorrhage. Congenital syphilis sometimes presents with vascular symptoms, however, there is little publ...

Authors: Mia J. Bertoli, Kruti Parikh, David Klyde, Catherine A. Mazzola and Shridevi Pandya Shah

Reference intervals for hemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume in an ethnically diverse community sample of Canadian children 2 to 36 months

To establish reference intervals for hemoglobin and mean corpuscular volume (MCV) in an ethnically diverse community sample of Canadian children 36 months and younger.

Authors: Jemila S. Hamid, Eshetu G. Atenafu, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Catherine S. Birken, Jonathon L. Maguire, Mary Kathryn Bohn, Khosrow Adeli, Mohamed Abdelhaleem and Patricia C. Parkin

Pediatric dentists’ perspectives of children with special health care needs in Japan: developmental disabilities, phobia, maltreatment, and multidisciplinary collaboration

The number of children diagnosed with developmental disabilities (DDs) or other chronic difficulties has risen. However, each professional’s awareness of children with developmental, emotional and behavioural ...

Authors: Ayako Ide-Okochi, Hiromi Funayama and Yoshinobu Asada

Minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6–23 months in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: a community-based cross-sectional study

Suboptimal child nutrition remains the main factor underlying child undernutrition in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This study aimed to assess the prevalence of minimum acceptable diet and associated fac...

Authors: Richard Mbusa Kambale, Gaylord Amani Ngaboyeka, Joe Bwija Kasengi, Sarah Niyitegeka, Boss Rutakaza Cinkenye, Armand Baruti, Kizito Chentwali Mutuga and Dimitri Van der Linden

A multicenter evaluation of viral bloodstream detections in children presenting to the Emergency Department with suspected systemic infection

Fever is a common symptom in children presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). We aimed to describe the epidemiology of systemic viral infections and their predictive values for excluding serious bacterial...

Authors: Christina A. Rostad, Neena Kanwar, Jumi Yi, Claudia R. Morris, Jennifer Dien Bard, Amy Leber, James Dunn, Kimberle C. Chapin, Anne J. Blaschke, Judy A. Daly, Leslie A. Hueschen, Matthew Jones, Elizabeth Ott, Jeffrey Bastar, Kevin M. Bourzac and Rangaraj Selvarangan

Neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency with no hepatic steatosis: a case report

Neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency (NICCD) is a common form of neonatal jaundice. Histopathological examination of the liver in patients with NICCD typically shows fatty liver, steat...

Authors: Ryosuke Miyamoto, Jun Sada, Koki Ota, Kenitiro Kaneko, Hironori Kusano, Yoshiteru Azuma and Akihisa Okumura

Awareness screening and referral patterns among pediatricians in the United States related to early clinical features of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a leading genetic cause of death in infants, is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness and atrophy. While early diagnosis of SM...

Authors: Mary Curry, Rosángel Cruz, Lisa Belter, Mary Schroth, Megan Lenz and Jill Jarecki

Risk factors for metabolic bone disease among preterm infants less than 32 weeks gestation with Bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) infants present an increased incidence of metabolic bone disease (MBD), but it is unknown which factors contribute to this. The aim of this study was to determine the risk fact...

Authors: Wenwen Chen, Zhenhai Zhang, Shuzhen Dai and Liping Xu

Neck circumference and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents: the moderator role of cardiorespiratory fitness

The increased incidence of cardiometabolic risk factors has become a public health issue, especially in childhood and adolescence. Thus, early identification is essential to avoid or reduce future complication...

Authors: Ana Paula Sehn, Caroline Brand, Letícia Welser, Anelise Reis Gaya, Cesar Agostinis-Sobrinho, Carlos Cristi-Montero, Elza Daniel de Mello and Cézane Priscila Reuter

The role of tobacco smoking and illicit drug use in adolescent acute alcohol intoxication

This study aims to determine the prevalence of tobacco smoking and illicit drug use among Dutch adolescents admitted to hospital for acute alcohol intoxication treatment. Furthermore, socio-demographic predict...

Authors: Loes de Veld, Inge M. Wolberink, Joris J. van Hoof and Nico van der Lely

The association between ambient air pollution and birth defects in five major ethnic groups in Liuzhou, China

Studies suggest that exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy may be associated with increased risks of birth defects (BDs), but conclusions have been inconsistent. This study describes the ethnic di...

Authors: Xiaoli Huang, Jichang Chen, Dingyuan Zeng, Zhong Lin, Carly Herbert, Lesley Cottrell, Liu Liu, Arlene Ash and Bo Wang

Interviewing children: the impact of the COVID-19 quarantine on children’s perceived psychological distress and changes in routine

The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in governments implementing disease containment measures such as school closures, social distancing, and home quarantine.

Authors: G. Segre, R. Campi, F. Scarpellini, A. Clavenna, M. Zanetti, M. Cartabia and M. Bonati

Correction to: The effect of vitamin D and magnesium supplementation on the mental health status of attention-deficit hyperactive children: a randomized controlled trial

Authors: Mostafa Hemamy, Naseh Pahlavani, Alireza Amanollahi, Sheikh Mohammed Shriful Islam, Jenna McVicar, Gholamreza Askari and Mahsa Malekahmadi

Assessing causality by means of the Naranjo scale in a paediatric patient with life threatening respiratory failure after alemtuzumab administration: a case report

Alemtuzumab is a T cell depleting antibody agent used as induction immunosuppressant therapy in solid organ transplant recipients. In addition, it is being increasingly used to treat severe or glucocorticoid-r...

Authors: Nori J. L. Smeets, Ruud J. R. Eijk, Saskia N. de Wildt and Charlotte M. H. H. T. Bootsma-Robroeks

Children’s experiences of participating in a school-based health promotion parental support programme – a qualitative study

Children’s voices are seldom heard in process evaluations concerning health promotion programmes. A Healthy School Start Plus (HSSP) is a parental support programme, conducted in Sweden, with the aim of promot...

Authors: Mahnoush Etminan Malek, Gisela Nyberg, Liselotte Schäfer Elinder, Emma Patterson and Åsa Norman

Prevalence of acute diarrhea and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) associated factors among children under five in Woldia Town, Amhara Region, northeastern Ethiopia

Diarrhea among children under five is one of the significant public health concerns in developing countries, such as Ethiopia that is mainly attributed to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) servic...

Authors: Weldehawariyat Getahun and Metadel Adane

Spatial distribution of under immunization among children 12–23 months old in Butajira HDSS, southern Ethiopia

Immunization is essential to prevent between 2 and 3 million deaths globally each year and it is widely accepted that it is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. Despite all its advantages, immu...

Authors: Admassu Ketsela, Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus and Wakgari Deressa

The heritability of body composition

Physical growth during childhood and adolescence is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Heritability, the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by genetic factors, has been demonstrated...

Authors: Avivit Brener, Yarden Waksman, Talya Rosenfeld, Sigal Levy, Itai Peleg, Adi Raviv, Hagar Interator and Yael Lebenthal

Short‐term outcomes in infants with mild neonatal encephalopathy: a retrospective, observational study

Neonatal encephalopathy due to acute perinatal asphyxia is a major cause of perinatal brain damage. Moderate to severe neonatal encephalopathy is associated with high mortality and morbidity rates. However, th...

Authors: Yoshinori Aoki, Tatsuo Kono, Mikako Enokizono and Kaoru Okazaki

Quality of pediatric clinical practice guidelines

There is a lack of a comprehensive evaluation for pediatric clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) published in recent years. Here, we assessed the quality of pediatric CPGs, considering factors that might affect...

Authors: Yali Liu, Yuan Zhang, Shu Wang, Ling Liu, Gang Che, Jiahui Niu and Yuan Ma

Epidemiology of pediatric sepsis in the pediatric intensive care unit of king Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study aimed to identify the incidence of sepsis and septic shock among patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care ...

Authors: Mohamed O. Humoodi, Mona A. Aldabbagh, Maher M. Salem, Yousef M. Al Talhi, Sara M. Osman, Mohammed Bakhsh, Abdullah M. Alzahrani and Maha Azzam

Iranian children with overweight and obesity: an internet-based interventional study

Obesity or overweight in children is an excessive accumulation of adipose tissue that can potentially regress health indicators and increase the likelihood of various diseases.

Authors: Farnaz Khatami, Ghazal Shariatpanahi, Hamid Barahimi, Rezvan Hashemi, Leila Khedmat and Mahta Gheirati

The facial nerve palsy and cortisone evaluation (FACE) study in children: protocol for a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial, in a Borrelia burgdorferi endemic area

Children with acute peripheral facial nerve palsy cannot yet be recommended corticosteroid treatment based on evidence. Adults with idiopathic facial nerve palsy are treated with corticosteroids, according to ...

Authors: Sofia Karlsson, Sigurdur Arnason, Nermin Hadziosmanovic, Åsa Laestadius, Malou Hultcrantz, Elin Marsk and Barbro H. Skogman

Gastrointestinal failure score in children with traumatic brain injury

To review the value of the gastrointestinal failure (GIF) score in children with different degrees of traumatic brain injury (TBI) by analyzing the correlation between outcome and gastrointestinal function.

Authors: Ying Zhou, Weifeng Lu and Weibing Tang

A Niemann‐pick C1 disease child with BCG-itis: a case report and analysis

Niemann-Pick C disease is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal lipid storage disorder. Some primary immunodeficiency diseases patients developed regional disease or disseminated disease after vaccinating BCG. ...

Authors: Jing-jing Lin, Xu-hui Liu, Lu Xia, Yan-ling Feng, Xiu-hong Xi and Shui-hua Lu

The effect of care provided by paediatric critical care transport teams on mortality of children transported to paediatric intensive care units in England and Wales: a retrospective cohort study

Centralisation of paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) has the increased the need for specialist paediatric critical care transport teams (PCCT) to transport critically ill children to PICU. We investigated...

Authors: Sarah E. Seaton, Elizabeth S. Draper, Christina Pagel, Fatemah Rajah, Jo Wray and Padmanabhan Ramnarayan

Medication-related knowledge, administration practice and adherence among caregivers of chronically ill children in Malaysia

Caregivers’ knowledge, practice and adherence in medication administration who care for children with chronic illness requiring long-term pharmacological treatments are factors associating with children medica...

Authors: Chii-chii Chew, Huan-keat Chan, Chee-tao Chang, Amar-singh HSS and Mohamed azmi Hassali

Sociodemographic characteristics are associated with prevalence of high-risk waist circumference and high-risk waist-to-height ratio in U.S. adolescents

Adiposity status in adolescence is associated with various health outcomes in adulthood. Waist circumference [WC] and waist-to-height ratio [WHtR] are measures of abdominal obesity and have shown to be valid p...

Authors: Felicia J. Setiono, Laura A. Guerra, Cindy Leung and Tashara M. Leak

Single-parenthood and health conditions among children receiving public assistance in Japan: a cohort study

Children’s healthy development is important. While governmental public assistance benefits financially troubled families, it cannot compensate for a lack of social support. Single-parenthood is a health risk f...

Authors: Daisuke Nishioka, Junko Saito, Keiko Ueno and Naoki Kondo

The association of dietary choline and betaine and anthropometric measurements among Iranian children: a cross-sectional study

Previous studies have suggested that choline and betaine are associated with improved anthropometric measures including, BMI and waist circumference however, results are largely inconsistent and limited studie...

Authors: Alireza Jafari, Yahya Jalilpiran, Katherine Suitor, Nick Bellissimo and Leila Azadbakht

Updated analysis of pediatric clinical studies registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, 2008–2019

Since the national clinical trials registry (ClinicalTrials.​gov) launched in February 2000, more than 360,000 research studies in the United States and over ...

Authors: Yang Zhong, Xingyu Zhang, Lijun Zhou, Lei Li and Tao Zhang

Vitamin D deficiency in children with acute bronchiolitis: a prospective cross-sectional case- control study

25(OH) vitamin D levels are inversely associated with respiratory infections and childhood wheezing.

Authors: Inbal Golan-Tripto, Neta Loewenthal, Asher Tal, Yotam Dizitzer, Yael Baumfeld and Aviv Goldbart

Effectiveness of interventions on early neurodevelopment of preterm infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis

As preterm infants’ neurodevelopment is shaped by NICU-related factors during their hospitalization, it is essential to evaluate which interventions are more beneficial for their neurodevelopment at this speci...

Authors: Marilyn Aita, Gwenaëlle De Clifford Faugère, Andréane Lavallée, Nancy Feeley, Robyn Stremler, Émilie Rioux and Marie-Hélène Proulx

Clinical and genetic analysis of a case with centronuclear myopathy caused by SPEG gene mutation: a case report and literature review

Centronuclear myopathy (CNM), a subtype of congenital myopathy (CM), is a group of clinical and genetically heterogeneous muscle disorders. Since the discovery of the SPEG gene and disease-causing variants, on...

Authors: Gang Zhang, Min Xu, Tingting Huang, Wenxin Lin, Jinglin Chen, Wangyang Chen and Xingzhi Chang

Development of cardiorespiratory fitness standards for working memory using receiver operating curves in 15-year-old adolescents

Working memory performance is associated with better academic achievements in children and adolescents, and it is positively related to CRF. However, what level of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) discriminates...

Authors: Vinícius Muller Reis Weber, Daniel Zanardini Fernandes, Leonardo Alex Volpato, Maria Raquel de Oliveira Bueno, Marcelo Romanzini, Jose Castro-Piñero and Enio Ricardo Vaz Ronque

Association between handgrip strength and bone mineral density of Brazilian children and adolescents stratified by sex: a cross-sectional study

To examine the association of handgrip strength (HGS) and bone mineral density (BMD) of Brazilian children and adolescents.

Authors: Bruna Thamyres Ciccotti Saraiva, Ricardo Ribeiro Agostinete, Ismael Forte Freitas Júnior, Daniel Eduardo Rodrigues de Sousa, Luis Alberto Gobbo, William Rodrigues Tebar and Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro

Longitudinal association of dietary sources of animal and plant protein throughout childhood with menarche

Inconsistent findings have been reported for associations between protein intake and age at menarche. We aimed to investigate the association between intake of protein and protein-containing food groups during...

Authors: Nazanin Moslehi, Golaleh Asghari, Parvin Mirmiran and Fereidoun Azizi

Reversible left ventricular noncompaction caused by hypertensive hydrocephalus: a pediatric case report

Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) is characterized by prominent ventricular trabeculations on cardiovascular imaging. Acquired reversible LVNC has not been reported in pediatrics without a g...

Authors: Riko Kato, Hiromichi Taneichi, Shinya Takarada, Mako Okabe, Nariaki Miyao, Hideyuki Nakaoka, Keijiro Ibuki, Sayaka Ozawa, Yuichi Adachi, Naoki Yoshimura, Kazuyoshi Saito, Fukiko Ichida and Keiichi Hirono

Correlates of bullying perpetration among Lebanese adolescents: a national study

Presently, 1 in 4 Lebanese adolescents is involved in bullying, with 12% being perpetrators. In Lebanon, around 90% of bullying incidents occur in schools. Given the lack of studies tackling bullying perpetrat...

Authors: Emmanuelle Awad, Chadia Haddad, Hala Sacre, Rabih Hallit, Michel Soufia, Pascale Salameh, Sahar Obeid and Souheil Hallit

Bidirectional association of neurodevelopment with growth: a prospective cohort study

The study aims to use the cross-lagged model and utilize data from the Born in Shenyang Cohort Study to characterize the bidirectional associations of the term-born infants’ neurodevelopment in five domains an...

Authors: Xiaotong Wei, Jiajin Hu, Liu Yang, Ming Gao, Lin Li, Ning Ding, Yanan Ma and Deliang Wen

Effect of COVID-19 on childhood Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Chengdu, China

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a change in the incidence and transmission of respiratory pathogens was observed. Here, we retrospectively analyzed the impact of COVID-19 on the epidemiologic ...

Authors: Ying Zhang, Yijie Huang, Tao Ai, Jun Luo and Hanmin Liu

Respiratory syncytial virus in severe lower respiratory infections in previously healthy young Ethiopian infants

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the commonest cause of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) in infants. However, the burden of RSV is unknown in Ethiopia. We aimed to determine the prevalence, season...

Authors: Abate Yeshidinber Weldetsadik and Frank Riedel

Paediatric flat foot and foot dimension in Central Anatolia

Information on the foot structures of Central Anatolian children is limited. Foot structures of children aged 6–10 years were shown to be different according to sex and increasing age.

Authors: Serap Alsancak, Senem Guner, Enver Güven, Ali Koray Özgün, Yunis Akkaş and Neslihan Alkıs