The Impacts of Educational Asthma Interventions in Schools: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Ana Carla Carvalho Coelho, Laís Souza Barretto Cardoso, Carolina de Souza-Machado, Adelmir Souza-Machado

“…To review the literature on the impact of educational asthma interventions in schools regarding the knowledge and morbidity of the disease among children and adolescents. Methods. A systematic review was conducted for controlled clinical trials investigating the effectiveness of educational asthma interventions for students, asthmatic or nonasthmatic, families, and school staff. …”
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Is oxidative stress - antioxidants imbalance the physiopathogenic core in pediatric obesity? by Ancuta Lupu, Silvia Fotea, Elena Jechel, Iuliana Magdalena Starcea, Ileana Ioniuc, Anton Knieling, Delia Lidia Salaru, Maria Oana Sasaran, Olga Cirstea, Ninel Revenco, Cristina Maria Mihai, Vasile Valeriu Lupu, Alin Horatiu Nedelcu

“…In addition to these, and in the light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the role played by oxidative stress in the induction, maintenance and potentiation of chronic inflammation among overweight children and adolescents becomes a topic of interest again. Thus, this review’s purpose is to update general data on obesity, with an emphasis on the physiopathological mechanisms that underlie it and involve oxidative stress. …”
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Hip Impingement after Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine Avulsion Fractures: A Case Report with Review of the Literature by Mark J. Lambrechts, Aaron D. Gray, Dan G. Hoernschemeyer, Sumit Kumar Gupta

“…Avulsion fractures of the anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS) are rare injuries in adolescent athletes. We present a case of a 15-year-old male who sustained an avulsion injury to his right AIIS when kicking a soccer ball. …”
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Association between Dental Caries and Obesity in Children and Young People: A Narrative Review by Abdulmonem A. Alshihri, Helen J. Rogers, Mohammed A. Alqahtani, Mohammed S. Aldossary

“…To explore the association between obesity and dental caries in children and adolescents. Furthermore, to consider the possible reasons behind this relationship. …”
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Review of celiac disease in the pediatric population by Aleksandra Strawińska, Maria Wydro, Magdalena Grotowska, Martyna Łukasiewicz

“…Older children and adolescent patients may frequently present atypical, vague symptoms such as fatigue, failure to thrive, weight loss, short stature, behavioral changes and anemia. …”
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Protocol for an intervention development and pilot implementation evaluation study of an e-health solution to improve newborn care quality and survival in two low-resource settings... by Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Michelle Heys, Caroline Crehan, Erin Kesler, Monica Lakhanpaul, Emma Wilson, Fabiana Lorencatto, Felicity Fitzgerald, Mario Cortina Borja, Msandeni Chiume, Hannah Gannon, Simbarashe Chimhuya, Gwendoline Chimhini, Tim Hull-Bailey, Tarisai Chiyaka, Yali Sassoon, Deliwe Nkhoma, Nushrat Khan, Alexander G. Stevenson, Kristina Curtis

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COVID-19 and children with congenital anomalies: a European survey of parents’ experiences of healthcare services by Ingeborg Barisic, Carlos Matias Dias, Amanda Neville, Anna Pierini, Anke Rissmann, Joan K Morris, Judith Rankin, Ester Garne, Anna Latos-Bielenska, Elena Marcus, Anna Jamry-Dziurla, Ljubica Odak, Clara Cavero- Carbonell, Elly Den Hond, Lucas Genard, Ana João Santos, L Renée Lutke, Christina Neergaard Pedersen, Annika Niemann, Lucía Páramo-Rodríguez

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Prevalence and determinants of overweight/obesity, elevated blood pressure, and their comorbidities among primary and secondary school students in Guizhou province: a cross-section... by Zhuan WANG, Xiangdong DU, Xin LI, Xiaoqin ZHANG, Xiujuan LU, Xiying PENG

“…Overweight/obesity, elevated blood pressure, and inadequate sleep were assessed according to national references including Screening for Overweight and Obesity in School-Aged Children and Adolescents: WS/T 586 – 2018, Screening Threshold for High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents Aged 7 – 18: WS/T 610 – 2018, and Hygiene Requirements for Daily Study Time of Primary and Secondary School Students: GB/T 17223 – 2012. …”
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Phenotypes of primary sclerosing cholangitis in children by M.B. Dyba, V.S. Berezenko

“…Objective: to investigate the clinical features of primary sclerosing cholangitis in children and adolescents depending on di­sease phenotype with the aim of develo­ping individualized treatment approaches. …”
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Pain Experience and Behavior Management in Pediatric Dentistry: A Comparison between Traditional Local Anesthesia and the Wand Computerized Delivery System by Annelyse Garret-Bernardin, Tiziana Cantile, Vincenzo D’Antò, Alexandros Galanakis, Gabriel Fauxpoint, Gianmaria Fabrizio Ferrazzano, Sara De Rosa, Giulia Vallogini, Umberto Romeo, Angela Galeotti

“…To evaluate the pain experience and behavior during dental injection, using the Wand computerized delivery system versus conventional local anesthesia in children and adolescents. Methods. An observational crossover split mouth study was performed on 67 patients (aged 7 to 15 years), requiring local anesthesia for dental treatments in both sides of the dental arch. …”
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COVID-19 in Children with Congenital Heart Diseases: A Multicenter Case Series from Iran by Hassan Esmaeeli, Mehdi Ghaderian, Keyhan Sayadpour Zanjani, Seyyedeh Fatemeh Ghalibafan, Mehrzad Mahdizadeh, Mohammad Hassan Aelami

“…The patients included 4 infants, 1 child, and 2 adolescents, with a median age of 9 months and a majority of boys. …”
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Integrated health and nutrition approaches to school feeding: maximising future human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean by Laura M. Irizarry, Marie Evane Tamagnan, Carla Mejía, Heidi Kessler, Sarah Grundahl Kohnstamm, Giulia Baldi

“…National School Meal programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean benefit over 80.3 million children and adolescents in the region. This paper seeks to determine the level of integration of complementary activities to school meal programmes in the region by examining their determinant factors: objectives, complementary services, governing regulatory frameworks, and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms. …”
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Prevalence of the oral pathogen Filifactor alocis and its FtxA toxin related to clinical parameters and presence of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans by Zeinab Razooqi, Nabil Khzam, Nabil Khzam, Mahina L’Hostis, Georgios N. Belibasakis, Anders Johansson, Jan Oscarsson

“…By assessing a longitudinal Ghanaian study population of adolescents, we recently identified a possible correlation between F. alocis levels, ftxA gene carriage, and progression of clinical attachment loss (CAL). …”
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Keterlaksanaan asas kerahasiaan dalam konseling pada peserta didik dengan kondisi broken home by Kadek Sinta Ayu Pramesti, Kadek Suranata, I Ketut Dharsana

“…Not fulfilling the need for love is the basis for young people or adolescents to commit deviant actions. The principle of confidentiality is used when students have problems and the teacher/counselor must be able to keep it secret. …”
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A Strength-Based Intervention to Increase Participation in Leisure Activities in Children with Neuropsychiatric Disabilities: A Pilot Study by Anna Ullenhag, Mats Granlund, Lena Almqvist, Lena Krumlinde-Sundholm

“…The intervention was carried out over 8 weeks and took place in the adolescent’s everyday environment and at the pediatric rehabilitation center. …”
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Evaluation of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Risk Factors by Javad Golmirzaei, Shole Namazi, Shahrokh Amiri, Shahram Zare, Najme Rastikerdar, Ali Akbar Hesam, Zahra Rahami, Fatemeh Ghasemian, Seyyed Shojaeddin Namazi, Abbas Paknahad, Forugh Mahmudi, Hamidreza Mahboobi, Tahereh Khorgoei, Bahareh Niknejad, Fatemeh Dehghani, Shima Asadi

“…All the participants were interviewed by a child and adolescent psychiatrist to survey risk factors of ADHD. …”
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Depression-induced changes in directed functional brain networks: A source-space resting-state EEG study by Zhongwen Jia, Lihan Tang, Jidong Lv, Linhong Deng, Ling Zou

“…To study changes in the flow of information between cortical regions of the brain in patients with depression, we used 64-channel EEG to record neural oscillatory activity in 68 relevant cortical regions in 22 depressed patients and 22 healthy adolescents using source-space EEG. The direction and strength of information flow between brain regions was investigated using directional phase transfer entropy (PTE). …”
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Serum Cytokine Profiles in Children with Crohn’s Disease by Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Sayar Abdulkhakov, Georgi Cherepnev, Ekaterina Martynova, Irina Mayanskaya, Alina Valeeva, Rustam Abdulkhakov, Dilyara Safina, Svetlana Khaiboullina, Albert Rizvanov

“…There are two major patient groups based on diagnosis of this disease, before or after the age of 20 (juvenile/adolescent or adult), with disease progression in adults usually milder than in juvenile CD patients. …”
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Thematic Review of Endocrine Disruptors and Their Role in Shaping Pubertal Timing by And Demir, Adem Aydin, Atilla Büyükgebiz

“…Addressing methodological gaps is crucial for producing reliable, actionable insights to protect adolescent development from the adverse effects of EDCs.…”
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Advanced Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma Treated with Pazopanib over Three Years by Yoji Shido, Yukihiro Matsuyama

“…Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare malignant tumor that generally occurs in adolescents and young adults. It progresses slowly, but lung and brain metastases often occur in the early phase of the clinical course, and chemotherapy has been reported as not being effective for ASPS. …”
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