Environment plays primary role in psychosis transition
Research suggests that exposure to environmental risk factors may be necessary for individuals at genetically high risk for psychosis to transition from good health to the psychiatric disorder. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 22, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Childhood social functioning predicts schizophrenia risk
Poor social functioning in childhood predicts an increased risk for schizophrenia later in life, suggest researchers. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 20, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Teenage bereavement linked to asthma hospitalization risk
Research shows that children who experience bereavement during late adolescence are at increased risk for asthma hospitalizations. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 19, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Air pollution link to early childhood pneumonia
European research shows that exposure to elevated levels of air pollutants is associated with an increased risk for pneumonia before the age of 3 years, and particularly in the first year of life. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 18, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Young adults with asthma ‘need cold weather care’
Researchers say that young adults with asthma should receive extra care and guidance during the winter months, to stop the effects of cold weather exposure from limiting their activities. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 16, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Moderately preterm births add to asthma burden
Research from Finland shows that children born late preterm or early term are at significantly increased risk for asthma compared with those born at term, and these births account for the majority of excess asthma burden due to prematurity. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 13, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Index predicts asthma in high-risk preschool children
Researchers have shown that the modified Asthma Predictive Index has high predictive value for future asthma development, when applied in the first 3 years of life. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 12, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Reflux surgery challenged for smallest children
US physicians have raised concerns over the diagnosis and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease in small children, especially among infants for whom regurgitation is normal and likely to resolve with conservative treatment (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 12, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Neonatal jaundice linked to pediatric asthma risk
Researchers have found that neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is associated with an increased risk for childhood asthma. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 7, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Weight loss reduces pediatric exercise-induced bronchoconstriction
A study has found that weight loss in overweight and obese children with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction leads to a significant reduction in symptom severity and improved quality of life. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - November 1, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Pediatric asthma hospitalizations alert to poor disease management
Researchers from Italy say that the majority of hospitalizations for pediatric asthma reflect inadequate disease management rather than disease severity. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - October 31, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
BCG asthma effects are lost in adolescence
Any beneficial effects of the neonatal Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine on childhood asthma symptoms and outcomes are likely to be transient, disappearing by adolescence, show follow-up findings from the Manchester Community Asthma Study. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - October 24, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Age at onset presents opportunity to improve asthma management
Researchers have shown that age at diagnosis of asthma may influence future outcomes and level of symptom control. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - October 23, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
‘Limit diagnostic investigations’ in children with recurrent CAP
Research shows that pediatric recurrent community-acquired pneumonia in different lung areas is most commonly associated with mild conditions like rhinosinusitis and asthma, and not severe underlying disease. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - October 21, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
No link to air toxics in pediatric asthma prevalence
A nationwide US study has found that early exposure to ambient air toxics does not associate with the prevalence of asthma in young children. (Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics)
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - October 14, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
