Showing papers in "The Journal of Pediatrics in 2007"

TL;DR: The 99th P of BMI-for-age may be appropriate for identifying children who are at very high risk for biochemical abnormalities and severe adult obesity.

TL;DR: This modified 6-minute walk test (6MWT) proved to be safe, easy to perform, and highly acceptable to children and provides a simple and inexpensive means to measure functional exercise capacity in children, even of young age, and might be of value when conducting comparable studies.

TL;DR: Application of new classification guidelines for adolescents with elevated BP reveals approximately 20% are at risk for hypertension, according to the 2004 National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group guidelines.

TL;DR: Infants with hemangiomas are more likely to be female, white non-Hispanic, premature, and products of multiple gestations, and perinatal associations include older maternal age, placenta previa, and pre-eclampsia.

TL;DR: Clinicians should not be reassured by high lung function, particularly in young children, because this factor, among others, is independently associated with steeper decline in FEV(1).

TL;DR: In this paper, the association of media exposure with language development in children under age 2 years was found to be associated with a 16.99-point decrement in the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether surgical closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a risk factor for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and neurosensory impairment in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants.

TL;DR: ADV is associated with greater likelihood of problematic health factors and increases nonspecific risk toward behavioral and psychological impairment in youth, particularly female adolescents.

TL;DR: Overweight was significantly associated with increased percent body fat, sum of skinfolds and waist circumference measurements, and unhealthful systolic and diastolic blood pressure, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride levels.

TL;DR: Late-preterm infants have higher mortality rates than term infants throughout infancy, and these findings may be used to guide obstetrical and pediatric decision-making.

TL;DR: This study suggests that preventing RSV LRTI with palivizumab may reduce subsequent recurrent wheezing in premature infants.

TL;DR: In ELGA infants, the shift from low basal cortisol levels at 3 months to significantly high levels at 8 and 18 months CA suggests long-term "resetting" of endocrine stress systems.

TL;DR: Total and vigorous PA was inversely significantly associated with MRS in adolescent girls, the group with lowest PA, becoming insignificant when CRF was introduced in the analysis, whereas body fat appears to have a pivotal role in the association of CRF with metabolic risk.

TL;DR: Specific requirements for sweat testing are outlined, which are applicable to patients of all ages undergoing sweat chloride testing and are focused on diagnostic rather than screening tests.

TL;DR: This is the largest outcome series of North American children with biliary atresia at a time when liver transplantation was available and outcomes in Canada are comparable to those reported elsewhere.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that childhood onset of bipolar disorder is common and is associated with long delays to first treatment, and Physicians and clinicians should be alert to a possible bipolar diagnosis in children in hopes of shortening the time to initiating treatment and perhaps ameliorating the otherwise adverse course of illness.

TL;DR: NIMV compared with NCPAP decreased the requirement for endotracheal ventilation in premature infants with RDS and was associated with a decreased incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

TL;DR: A normal DMSA scan makes VCU unnecessary in the primary examination of infants with UTI, and the hypothesis that DMSA scintigraphy results are abnormal when there is dilating VUR is supported.

TL;DR: The devastating effects of intrauterine exposure to alcohol persist into early adulthood and severely limit careers and independent living.

TL;DR: Location, size, and clinical and morphologic type are associated with an increased risk for development of ulceration and children with ulcers were more likely to present to a pediatric dermatologist at a younger age and to require treatment.

TL;DR: In this article, the accuracy of [18 F]-DOPA PET scans to diagnose focal versus diffuse disease and to localize focal lesions in infants with congenital hyperinsulinism was evaluated.

TL;DR: The evidence from this study supports neither a delayed introduction of solids beyond the fourth month nor a delayed introducing of the most potentially allergenic solid beyond the sixth month of life for the prevention of eczema.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that socioeconomic position, maternal IQ, and the home environment are independently and positively predictive of children's cognitive development.

TL;DR: In healthy newly born infants, oxygen saturation rises slowly and does not usually reach 90% in the first 5 minutes of life, but a gradient between pre- and post-ductal SpO2 levels remains significant for the first 15 minutes oflife.

TL;DR: P-HUS has increased compared with historic surveys and early mortality remains high (8-fold that of VTEC-induced HUS).

TL;DR: Preterm birth affects respiratory health at 3 to 5 years of age and children with BPD could be distinguished from children without BPD based on a higher resonant frequency and a lower mean reactance.

TL;DR: The findings show that mtDNA depletion is a prevalent cause of multiple respiratory chain deficiency in infancy, and POLG mutations were consistently found in all 7 patients with Alpers syndrome.

TL;DR: The use of nebulized 3% HS is a safe, inexpensive, and effective treatment for infants hospitalized with moderately severe viral bronchiolitis by a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, controlled, multicenter trial.

TL;DR: INH-A21 failed to reduce the incidence of staphylococcal LOS or candidemia in premature infants and no differences were found in the frequencies of LOS caused by coagulase-negative staphlyococci, Candida spp, or overall mortality.