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 ...

The incidence of type 1 diabetes in children in India and Pakistan is remarkably low. However, south Asian children resident in the UK have a rising incidence of type 1 diabetes, approaching that of the indigenous population. There is particular concern about the emergence of type 2 diabetes in children, and the consequent morbidity and mortality. 5 South Asian children are particularly at risk...

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...

Recent concern about the diets of British children and adolescents has focused on the nutritional content of school dinners. However, whether markers of nutrition, cardiovascular health, and type 2 diabetes differ between school pupils who eat school dinners and those whose school day meal is provided from home has been little studied.We have examined this question in a survey of state secondar...

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 ...

There is an unexplained excess of type 1 diabetes and other organ-specific autoimmune diseases in children with Down's syndrome, but the immunogenetic characteristics of diabetes in Down's syndrome have not been investigated. We studied the frequency of islet autoantibodies in 106 children with Down's syndrome and no history of autoimmunity and analyzed HLA class II genotypes in 222 children wi...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the nation. Students with diabetes face the daily task of balancing food, physical activity, and medication to survive. Teachers and school personnel often lack the knowledge needed to assist them. CONTEXT An estimated 2647 schoolchildren in Wisconsin have diabetes. The Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program frequently recei...

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 ...

This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of glucosuria and the characteristics of diabetes in schoolchildren as detected by a school urine glucose screening program implemented from 2010 to 2013 in the Jeonbuk province area of Korea. A total of 110 children without known diabetes were analyzed. They were checked with an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) with other laboratory tests and th...