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Use of asthma medication during pregnancy and risk of specific congenital anomalies: A European case-malformed control study.
2015
Background: Pregnant women with asthma need to take medication during pregnancy.Objective: We sought to identify whether there is an increased risk of specific congenital anomalies after exposure to antiasthma medication in the first trimester of pregnancy.Methods: We performed a population-based case-malformed control study testing signals identified in a literature review. Odds ratios (ORs) of exposure to the main groups of asthma medication were calculated for each of the 10 signal anomalies compared with registrations with nonchromosomal, nonsignal anomalies as control registrations. In addition, exploratory analyses were done for each nonsignal anomaly. The data set included 76,249 reg…
Maternal complications in pregnancy and wheezing in early childhood: a pooled analysis of 14 birth cohorts
2015
Background: Evidence on the effect of maternal complications in pregnancy on wheezing in offspring is still insufficient. Methods: A pooled analysis was performed on individual participant data from fourteen European birth cohorts to assess the relationship between several maternal pregnancy complications and wheezing symptoms in the offspring. Exposures of interest included hypertension and preeclampsia, diabetes, as well as pre-pregnancy overweight (body mass index between 25 and 29.9) and obesity (body mass index >= 30) compared with normal weight (body mass index between 18.5 and 24.9). Outcomes included both ever and recurrent wheezing from birth up to 12-24 months of age. Cohort-speci…
Overweight/obesity and respiratory and allergic disease in children : international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (ISAAC) phase two
2014
Background: Childhood obesity and asthma are increasing worldwide. A possible link between the two conditions has been postulated. Methods: Cross-sectional studies of stratified random samples of 8-12-year-old children (n=10 652) (16 centres in affluent and 8 centres in non-affluent countries) used the standardized methodology of ISAAC Phase Two. Respiratory and allergic symptoms were ascertained by parental questionnaires. Tests for allergic disease were performed. Height and weight were measured, and overweight and obesity were defined according to international definitions. Prevalence rates and prevalence odds ratios were calculated. Results: Overweight (odds ratio=1.14, 95%-confidence i…
Studies on the kinetics and renal excretion of low and high molecular weight dextrans in preterm babies, newborns and young infants.
1977
Administration of low and high molecular weight dextrans in the initial phase of shock is no longer controversial. The special conditions in newborns, however, have been insufficiently considered in planning therapy. This investigation aimed at determining the biological half-lives of dextran 40 (Rheomacrodex®) and dextran 60 (Macrodex®) in this age group. The half-life of dextran 40 was found to be 60 min and that of dextran 60 3 h. Preterm babies and newborns excrete up to 25% less dextran 40 and 60 in 24 h than infants and adults. Normal adult values for excretion are only reached towards the end of the first year of life.
Lost in Transition: A Systematic Review of Neonatal Electroencephalography in the Delivery Room—Are We Forgetting an Important Biomarker for Newborn …
2017
Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring is routine in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) for detection of seizures, neurological monitoring of infants following perinatal asphyxia, and increasingly, following preterm delivery. EEG monitoring is not routinely commenced in the delivery room (DR). Objectives: To determine the feasibility of recording neonatal EEG in the DR, and to assess its usefulness as a marker of neurological wellbeing during immediate newborn transition. Methods: We performed a systematic stepwise search of PubMed using the following terms: infant, newborns, neonate, delivery room, afterbirth, transition and electroencephalography. Only human studies describ…
Aportaciones de la neurociencia cognitiva a la estimulación auditiva musical de 0 a 6 años
2016
Este artículo forma parte de una investigación más amplia acerca de la actitud y la aptitud que los maestros generalistas de 2º ciclo de Educación Infantil de los colegios públicos de Valencia tienen para estimular auditivamente a sus alumnos a partir de la discriminación auditiva y la escucha comprensiva de las audiciones musicales, con el fin de desarrollar el oído interno y la capacidad atencional. A lo largo de este trabajo se explica cómo afecta al cerebro infantil una continua estimulación sensorial, concretamente la auditiva, desde el ámbito neurológico
Desarrollo de la competencia lectora en alumnado con discapacidad auditiva: una revisión bibliográfica
2019
espanolEn estas lineas se presenta una revision de la literatura existente sobre intervenciones enfocadas a mejorar la competencia lectora del alumnado con discapacidad auditiva, siendo seleccionados 17 articulos. Los programas que implicaron mejoras en la habilidad lectora del alumnado son aquellos que priorizan la promocion de las habilidades de alfabetizacion y el desarrollo de la conciencia fonologica. Se concluye que son numerosas las intervenciones exitosas, pero es necesario introducir modificaciones como aumentar la duracion e incluir un seguimiento post intervencion, homogeneizar los grupos segun grado de afectacion y sintomatologia, extrapolar la intervencion al contexto familiar …
Safety of Rotavirus Vaccination in Preterm Infants Admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Sicily, Italy: A Multicenter Observational Study
2023
Rotavirus (RV) is among the most common vaccine-preventable diseases in children under five years of age. Despite the severity of rotavirus pathology in early childhood, rotavirus vaccination for children admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), who are often born preterm and with various previous illnesses, is not performed. This multicenter, 3-year project aims to evaluate the safety of RV vaccine administration within the six main neonatal intensive care units of the Sicilian Region to preterm infants. Methods: Monovalent live attenuated anti-RV vaccination (RV1) was administered from April 2018 to December 2019 to preterm infants with gestational age ≥ 28 weeks. Vaccine a…
Kinetics of ascorbic acid degradation in fruit-based infant foods during storage
2013
The kinetics of ascorbic acid (AA) degradation in a fruit-based beikost product added with AA were determined after storage at 4, 25, 37 and 50 °C during 4, 8, 12, 16 and 32 weeks in plastic polypropylene/ethylenevinyl alcohol vacuum packaging. It was confirmed that AA degradation followed an Arrhenius first-order kinetics, with an activation energy of 20.11 ± 0.33 kcal mol−1. No AA losses at 4 °C were recorded during the entire storage period. In contrast, a time - and temperature - dependent decrease (p the degradation rate decreasing from 50 °C to 25 °C, as expected. AA percentage retention at the end of storage ranged between 6.4% (50 °C/16 weeks) and 100.9% (4 °C/32 weeks).
Políticas para la infancia en el siglo XXI: de la asistencia a la defensa un proceso en curso
2010
Después de 20 años del reconocimiento de derechos en torno a la infancia, creemos necesario hacer un balance de los servicios y programas existentes en nuestro entorno europeo, con especial hincapié en nuestro país. Explorar las distintas dimensiones y comprobar el proceso en curso es nuestra finalidad. En la primera década del siglo XXI reconocemos que los cambios producidos apuntan hacia una mayor presencia de los procesos participativos en torno a la infancia y del ámbito local como eje de estas políticas innovadoras. La presencia mayoritaria de los trabajadores sociales en los ayuntamientos les convierte, una vez más, en los agentes de cambio que hacen posible los procesos de implantaci…