OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to identify correlates of body image perception and dissatisfaction among school-aged children from Colombia, a country undergoing the nutrition transition. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. Using child-adapted Stunkard scales, children were asked to indicate the silhouette that most closely represented their current and desired body shapes. Body image d...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of nutritional rickets and the incidence and prevalence of hereditary rickets. DESIGN Population-based retrospective cohort study based on a review of medical records. METHODS Patients aged 0-14.9 years referred to or discharged from hospitals in southern Denmark from 1985 to 2005 with a diagnosis of rickets were identified by register search, and their m...

Dutch, unlike English, contains two gender-marked forms of the definite article. Does the presence of multiple definite article forms lead Dutch learners to be delayed relative to English learners in the acquisition of their determiner system? Using the Preferential Looking Procedure, we found that Dutch-learning children aged 1 ; 7 to 2 ; 0 use articles during sentence comprehension in a fashi...

During the years 1972-85, 89 children aged 0-14 were registered with leukaemia in the West Berkshire and Basingstoke and North Hampshire District Health Authorities. Two nuclear establishments are located within the health authorities, and a third is situated nearby. Fifty of the 143 electoral wards in the two district health authorities lie wholly within, or have at least half their area lying...

OF all the methods of delaying the absorption of intramuscular penicillin, combination with procaine is at present foremost (Florey 1952). Procaine penicillin is most effective when the particles are smaller than 5 µ and are suspended in a peanut-oil medium with 2% (w/v) aluminium monostearate (Thomas et al. 1948). Emery et al. (1949) showed that in children a serum-penicillin level above...

90 HIV Infection Among Partners of HIV-Infected Black Men Who Have Sex with Men — North Carolina, 2011–2013 95 Noninfluenza Vaccination Coverage Among Adults — United States, 2012 103 Global Control and Regional Elimination of Measles, 2000–2012 108 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years — United States, 2014 110 Advis...

OBJECTIVE To identify the frequency and median duration of breast-feeding in children aged 0-24 months in the city of Ouro Preto, Brazil. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out to identify the median duration of breastfeeding in children aged 0-24 months. A sample of 229 children from 1800 households was drawn by clusters at three different occasions and stratified according to the a...

BACKGROUND Information about the distribution of causes of and time trends for child mortality should be periodically updated. We report the latest estimates of causes of child mortality in 2010 with time trends since 2000. METHODS Updated total numbers of deaths in children aged 0-27 days and 1-59 months were applied to the corresponding country-specific distribution of deaths by cause. We d...

National mortality and hospitalization data from the Netherlands were analysed for asthma (International Classification of Diseases) (ICD 493), acute bronchi(oli)tis (ICD 466), pneumonia and influenza (ICD 480-487), and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (ICD 490 + 491 + 492 + 496) in children aged 0-14 yrs for 1980-1987. No trends were seen in the mortality in age groups 0-4 yrs and ...

This study assesses the importance of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) as a diarrhoeal agent in developing countries. Odds ratios were calculated for incurring ETEC-associated diarrhoea based on data reported between 1970 and 1999. Carriage of ETEC was associated with diarrhoea in children aged less than five years, except for hospitalized infants aged 0-11 month(s) and children aged 1-4...