introduction: hypertension (htn) is one of the most common risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in adults and it is clear that htn in adults starts from the childhood. cardiovascular diseases in adults can be decreased by determining and controlling risk factors on blood pressure (bp) in children. this study evaluated & investigated the risk factors & determinants respecting blood pressure i...

Background: Predicting adverse neurovascular complications due to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) particularly in children leads to more appropriately management of disease as well as achievement of acceptable patients' survival. Cerebral edema is a life-threatening adverse event following DKA responsible for high mortality rate. Recently, authors have focused introducing new risk assessment tools ...

Introduction: Hospitalized children are often at increased risk of nutritional impairment at or during admission.   Objectives: The aims of this study were to (1) define the nutritional state of hospitalized children with comparison to healthy children in two different countries and (2) compare and contrast three nutritional risk screening (NRS) tools for hospitalized children in terms of the e...

background acetaminophen exposure might be associated with increasing risk of asthma prevalence and other atopic disorders over recent decades. the present study aimed to investigate the association between acetaminophen exposure and the risk of developing childhood asthma. methods a case - control study was undertaken between march and september 2010 in urmia district north west of iran. subje...

background: geographic differences in the incidence of cancers may suggest unique genetic or environmental exposures that impact the risk of acquiring cancer. this research aims to determine the incidence rate and geographical distribution of common cancers among iranian children. methods: in this ecological study, we extracted data that pertained to the incidence rate of common cancers among c...

studies suggest that children who start solid foods early are at risk for developing food allergies. herein, we evaluated the effects of the introduction of peanuts to the diets of children on emerging peanut allergies. children with allergic rhinitis and asthma were enrolled in the present study and evaluated in four stages. in the first stage, a clinical history was completed for all particip...

background: it has been suggested that helicobacter pylori infection might reduce the risk of atopic conditions, such as asthma, in childhood. this risk reduction could relate to the “hygiene hypothesis” which proposes an association between childhood exposure to microbes and risk of atopy. objectives: to examine the association between hp infection and childhood acquired asthma in sardinia. pa...