Recently, we cared for a 5-month-old baby boy born at 28 weeks gestation with a 1.9-mm patent ductus arteriosus (Fig 1). The parents were counselled regarding the plan for percutaneous device closure and asked to return 2 weeks later. Surprisingly, on repeat echocardiogram, the ductus arteriosus had closed. As spontaneous ductal closure is unusual past the newborn period, we questioned the pare...

Parents influence the development of child eating patterns through the genes they transmit and the home environments they provide (1). Both are important and, as a general rule, neither should be discounted when striving to understand individual differences in how children eat. This holds true for eating in the absence of hunger (2), satiety responsiveness and food cue responsiveness (3), 24-h ...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to evaluate the factor structure of the newly developed Adult Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (AEBQ) (Hunot et al., Appetite 105:356-63, 2016) in an Australian sample, and examine associations between the four food approach and four food avoidance appetitive traits with body mass index (BMI). METHODS Participants (N = 998) recruited between May and Octobe...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of mothers' and fathers' eating behaviors, child feeding practices, and BMI on percentage body fat and BMI in their children. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Four hundred fifty-eight parents (239 mothers, 219 fathers) were asked to complete two questionnaires: the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire and the Child Feeding Questionnaire, which measure dimensio...

Background: Paracetamol may be used as an antipyretic agent for the treatment of fever, as well as an analgesic in the treatment of mild to moderate pain post-vaccination in infants. The use of paracetamol during fever may be or may not be recommended since it may alter the natural human body immune response, although it may reduce pain. Objectives: The aims of this study are to describe the ef...

Purpose Contingency estimating and management are critical management functions necessary for successful delivery of construction projects. Considering its importance, academics and industry professionals proposed a wide range of methods for risk quantification and accordingly for contingency estimating1. Considerably less work was directed to contingency management including risk mitigate duri...

Emergency medical services received a telephone call from a mother reporting that her three-month-old daughter “turned blue and then stopped breathing” after a prolonged period of crying. On arrival, paramedics found an infant making minimal respiratory efforts with a heart rate of 100 beats/min. Bag-mask ventilation was initiated on the scene. During transport to hospital, she had no spontaneo...

BACKGROUND Weight problems that arise in the first years of life tend to persist. Behavioral research in this period can provide information on the modifiable etiology of unhealthy weight. The present study aimed to replicate findings from previous small-scale studies by examining whether different aspects of preschooler's eating behavior and parental feeding practices are associated with body ...

BACKGROUND There is some evidence that aberrant eating behaviours and obesity co-occur with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. The present study is the first that aims to investigate the association between eating behaviours and ADHD symptoms in early childhood in a population-based cohort. METHODS We included 471 preschool children from the Rhea mother-child cohort in ...

Individual differences in several aspects of eating style have been implicated in the development of weight problems in children and adults, but there are presently no reliable and valid scales that assess a range of dimensions of eating style. This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a parent-rated instrument to assess eight dimensions of eating style in children; the...