BACKGROUND To describe the presenting clinical features of coeliac disease in a single paediatric centre, and to determine if the presenting features vary with age. METHODS A review was conducted of children who had been referred with clinical suspicion of coeliac disease to the paediatric gastroenterology department of a tertiary paediatric hospital in Sydney, Australia. Coeliac disease was ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the research was an assessment of the differences in the self-evaluation of health-related quality of life during the treatment of post-burn scars on the upper limbs of pre-school and school children. MATERIALS AND METHOD a group of 120 children were examined--66 boys and 54 girls, divided into a pre-school group of 60 children (average age 4.3±1.7) and a primary school g...

Twenty-five years ago educational services for children with disabilities were frequently fragmented, underfunded, highly segregated, and unreliable. Public schools were often ill prepared and unwilling to provide special and necessary services to children with disabilities. Over the past two decades, efforts to provide an appropriate education for children with disabilities in America—through ...

BACKGROUND On the basis of clinical experience, it seems that sleep disturbances are common in children with cerebral palsy (CP); however, there is a lack of research and objective data to support this observation. AIM OF WORK Our aim was to assess sleep of children with cerebral palsy, using validated sleep questionnaire. SUBJECTS AND METHODS one hundred children with diagnosis of CP were ...

School-age children have attracted relatively little attention as a group in need of special measures to protect them against malaria. However, increasing success in lowering the level of malaria transmission in many previously highly endemic areas will result in children acquiring immunity to malaria later in life than has been the case in the past. Thus, it can be anticipated that in the comi...

OBJECTIVE To study the annual incidence of injuries and the relationship between behavior problems and injuries among school-age children. METHODS A prospective cohort study on injuries for 1-year follow-up period was conducted among 2 005 school-age children selected by cluster sampling from three primary schools in Maanshan city. They subjects were divided into two groups with or without ex...

background : association between body mass indexes (bmi) and blood pressure have been observed, but remains poorly understood. bmi is shown to be a measure of overweight status and is applicable to all populations. in this cross-sectional study we have examined the relationship between the bmi and blood pressure in school age children.   methods: this study comprised of 486 boys and 463 girls a...