PURPOSE OF REVIEW To knock down the following myths: obesity in paediatric patients is rare and mainly a North-American problem; obesity in childhood has no long-term harmful effects. To sensitize the anaesthesiologists to a problem seldom addressed in the anaesthetic literature. RECENT FINDINGS Recent medical information concerning the incidence and pathophysiology of obesity in paediatric p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the protective role of breastfeeding against diarrhea in children younger than one year of age in the city of Feira de Santana, Brazil, in 2001. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out. Questionnaires were applied to mothers by 104 university students on the national vaccination day in 44 health units (71.0%) selected by simple stratification. 2,319 children were...

A fair picture of adult morbidity can be obtained from sickness-absenteeism rates in various industries, but no such information is available for children. Several analyses have been made of the admissions to children's hospitals (Baber, 1939; Smellie, 1949), and Tisdall, Brown, and Kelly (1930) studied the age of onset, sex distribution, and seasonal incidence of 25 diseases from admissions to...

OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of vitamin A supplementation on child morbidity and nutritional status. DESIGN A community based follow-up (interventional) in nature. SETTING Two randomly selected Weredas (districts) of Tigray, North Ethiopia were studied between 1996 and 1997. SUBJECTS Four thousand seven hundred and seventy children aged between six and 72 months, selected using a mul...