INTRODUCTION Short-term studies have shown that inhaled corticosteroids may retard the growth of children with asthma. The effect of long-term treatment on adult height is, however, uncertain. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a prospective study of children with asthma to examine the effect of long-term treatment with inhaled budesonide on adult height. We report on 211 children who have att...

This study aims to analyze the perspectives of intergenerational relationships between older adults and adult children. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out, which analyzes these relations at cross-national level. Four hundred twenty four participants aged 65–97 years, were interviewed. Participants three different nationalities lived in community. All interviews went throug...

OBJECTIVE To study breastfeeding during the first year of life and the kind of complementary food provided at one year of life to children of adolescent mothers. To compare these data with breastfeeding and complementary food received by children of adult mothers. METHOD A dual cohort was performed. Children were selected from the files of CAISM/UNICAMP and assessed when they were one year ol...

Previous research has found that young children recognize an adult as being acquainted with an object most readily when the child and adult have previously engaged socially with that object together. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that such social engagement is so powerful that it can sometimes lead children to overestimate what has been shared. After having shared two objects w...

Early in the last century, it was commonplace for elderly women to live with their adult children. Over time, the prevalence of this type of living arrangement declined, as incomes increased. In more recent decades, coresidence between adult children and their retirement-age parents has become more common, as children rely on parental support later into adulthood. We use panel data from the Pan...

Purpose The life course perspective suggests that serious physical or mental health conditions that limit the daily activities of any one family member are likely to be consequential for other family members as well. In this article, we explored whether adult children's serious health conditions affected the flow of expressive and instrumental support between mothers and both the offspring with...

UNLABELLED Prognosis of HIV-1 infection dramatically improved during the last decade. Meanwhile, treatment-induced virological success has always been different in adult and children patients. AIM To compare 10 years of follow up in HIV-1 vertically infected children and adult patients. METHODS Monocentric retrospective longitudinal analysis of vertically HIV-1-infected children and adult p...

This study examined the effects of work schedule flexibility and the spillover of work stress to family life on the health of parents of adult children with serious mental illness (SMI). We compared 100 parents of adult children with SMI to 500 parents with nondisabled adult children using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The detrimental impact on health of a lack of work flexibility...