Assessment of Nutritional Status among the School-going Adolescents in a Rural Community of Bankura District, West Bengal: A Cross-sectional Study by Eashin Gazi, Amit Kumar Samanta, Arup Jyoti Rout, Tushar Kanti Saha

“…Nutrition influences growth and development throughout infancy, childhood and adolescents. Aims and Objectives: The aim of the sudy was to assess the nutritional status in terms of thinness, overweight and obesity and stunting amongst the school-going adolescents and to find out the factors related to nutritional status amongst the study subjects. …”
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Digital traps: How technology fuels nomophobia and insomnia in Taiwanese college students by Yi-Ching Lin, Po-Ching Huang

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Giant Bilateral Adrenal Myelolipoma with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia by S. Al-Bahri, A. Tariq, B. Lowentritt, D. V. Nasrallah

“…We report the case of a 39-year-old male with a history of CAH secondary to 21-α hydroxylase deficiency on steroids since childhood, self-discontinued during adolescence, presenting with abdominal distension, fatigue, decreased libido, and easy bruising. …”
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Prenatal stress and child development: A scoping review of research in low- and middle-income countries. by Giavana Buffa, Salomé Dahan, Isabelle Sinclair, Myriane St-Pierre, Noushin Roofigari, Dima Mutran, Jean-Jacques Rondeau, Kelsey Needham Dancause

“…Five studies analyzed outcomes later in infancy such as temperament and motor development, all showing significant results; and nine in childhood such as behavioral development, asthma, and physical growth, with eight showing significant results.…”
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Dental Aspect of Distal Tubular Renal Acidosis with Genu Valgum Secondary to Rickets: A Case Report by Rakesh N. Bahadure, Nilima Thosar, Ritika Kriplani, Sudhindra Baliga, Punit Fulzele

“…Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. Dental problems in rickets include delayed eruption of permanent teeth, premature fall of deciduous teeth, defects in structure of teeth, enamel defects in permanent teeth (hypoplastic), pulp defects, intraglobular dentine, and caries tooth. …”
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Orexitropic Signaling Proteins in Obese Children by Ljiljana Saranac, Bojko Bjelakovic, Hristina Stamenkovic, Borislav Kamenov

“…We wanted to establish and compare levels of leptin and NPY in different obesity types in childhood, and to investigate their correlations with auxological parameters. …”
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Acute respiratory tract infections during the first 6 years of life – results from the German birth cohort study LoewenKIDS by Bianca Klee, Sophie Diexer, Susan Langer, Cornelia Gottschick, Carla Hartmann, Nadine Glaser, Johannes Horn, Evelyn Dorendorf, Heike Raupach-Rosin, Lamiaa Hassan, Nicole Rübsamen, Kristin Maria Meyer-Schlinkmann, Carlos A. Guzman, Valerie Heselich, Eva Battin, Thomas Pietschmann, Dietmar H. Pieper, Mathias Pletz, Peggy Riese, Stephanie Trittel, Saskia Thies, Constantin von Kaisenberg, Frank Dressler, Florian Guthmann, Carsten Oberhoff, Ralf L. Schild, Andre Karch, Rafael Mikolajczyk

“…Objectives: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) often occur in early childhood and are mostly self-limited. However, they impose a high socioeconomic burden and can be associated with chronic diseases later in life. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of Stunting among Primary School Children in Northeast Ethiopia by Getaw Walle Bazie, Mohammed Seid, Gudina Egata

“…Stunting is a major public health problem affecting children in low- and middle-income countries and has become one of the underlying causes of early childhood mortality. However, there is a paucity of information on the prevalence of stunting and its predictors among school children in these settings including Ethiopia. …”
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ETV6-RUNX1 Rearrangement in Tunisian Pediatric B-Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Abir Gmidène, Hatem Elghezal, Hlima Sennana, Yosra Ben Youssef, Balkiss Meddeb, Moez Elloumi, Abderrahim Khlif, Ali Saad

“…This is the first Tunisian study in which we report the incidence of t(12;21) among childhood B-lineage ALL and in which we have found multiple copies of RUNX1. …”
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Solid waste management beliefs and practices in rural households towards sustainable development and pro-environmental citizenship by M.R. Limon, J.P.C. Vallente, N.C.T. Corales

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Association of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS3) rs2070744 variant with advanced retinopathy of prematurity: a case–control study and meta-analysis by Aneta Choręziak-Michalak, Dawid Szpecht, Tomasz Woźniak, Anna Chmielarz-Czarnocińska, Patrycja Gazińska, Anna Gotz-Więckowska, Ewa Strauss

“…Abstract Despite advances in neonatal and ophthalmological care, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) continues to be a leading cause of childhood blindness worldwide. Investigating gene variants associated with vascular responses in ROP may provide valuable insights into its pathogenesis and identify risk or protective factors. …”
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Green Space and Child Weight Status: Does Outcome Measurement Matter? Evidence from an Australian Longitudinal Study by Taren Sanders, Xiaoqi Feng, Paul P. Fahey, Chris Lonsdale, Thomas Astell-Burt

“…To examine whether neighbourhood green space is beneficially associated with (i) waist circumference (WC) and (ii) waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) across childhood. Methods. Gender-stratified multilevel linear regressions were used to examine associations between green space and objective measures of weight status in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, a nationally representative source of data on 4,423 children aged 6 y to 13 y. …”
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Efficacy of dupilumab with concomitant topical calcineurin inhibitors treatment for preschool children with atopic dermatitis: a retrospective cohort study by Wu Liming, Kamran Ali

“…Background/objective Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory skin disease that typically occurs in childhood/infancy and is associated with complications like extracutaneous atopic morbidity. …”
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Challenge of Retinoblastoma in Mexico in 2020: Perspectives and Solutions by Lucas A. Garza-Garza, Raúl E. Ruiz-Lozano, Genaro Rebolledo-Méndez, Ismael Ibarra-Nava, Héctor J. Morales-Garza, David Ancona-Lezama

“…Early diagnosis and positive outcomes of retinoblastoma in childhood have been positively correlated with the economic wealth of high-income countries (HICs) worldwide. …”
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Physical Therapy in the Management of Pelvic Floor Muscles Hypertonia in a Woman with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia by Aline Moreira Ribeiro, Cristine Homsi Jorge Ferreira, Elaine Cristine Lemes Mateus-Vasconcelos, Rafael Mendes Moroni, Luciane Maria Oliveira Brito, Luiz Gustavo Oliveira Brito

“…A woman with hereditary spastic paraparesis and a history of muscle spasticity and urinary and fecal complaints since childhood. She presented to this institution seeking treatment for pelvic pain, pain during intercourse, constipation, and micturition problems. …”
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Possible association between Sever’s disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. a prospective observational study by Nevzat Gonder, Ibrahim Halil Demir, Volkan Özel, Kubra Ilicepinar, Musa Alperen Bilgin

“…Abstract Background Sever’s disease is among the most common causes of foot pain in childhood.The etiology of Sever’s disease is still under debate.The objective of this prospective study is to investigate the relationship between Sever’s disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD). …”
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Prevalence of Neonatal Sepsis and Associated Factors among Neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Selected Governmental Hospitals in Shashemene Town, Oromia Regional State, Et... by Aytenew Getabelew, Mihret Aman, Endashaw Fantaye, Tomas Yeheyis

“…Neonatal sepsis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among neonates in developing countries accounting for 30-50% of total deaths each year. Childhood mortality is often used as broad indicator of the social development or a specific indicator of health conditions of a country. …”
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Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with temporal lobe epilepsy: A narrative review by Pietro Cappelletto, Claudia Accolla, Martina Preti, Tiziana Pisano, Carmen Barba, Renzo Guerrini

“…Abstract People with epilepsy (PWE) are at higher risk of psychiatric disorders (PD), disability, and reduced quality of life than the general population, especially in childhood and adolescence and when seizures originate from the temporal lobe. …”
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Education for sustainable development: new opportunities with the rce network by Mariya V. Yurina, Yuliya V. Lopukhova, Galina D. Kuznetsova

“…The key partners of RCEs, the leading regional Universities, combined on one platform, are acting as an educational consortium, which is mainstreaming ESD by its appropriate integration in the curricula of formal education, from early childhood rearing to primary, secondary, technical and vocational and higher education, and also nonformal education initiatives, particularly through sustainability-related intended learning outcomes. …”
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Diet quality and characteristics of family environment in a school from Itajaí-SC by Ana Luisa Pereira Michereff, Larissa Tachini, Tatiana Mezadri, Doroteia Aparecida Höfelmann

“…Food behavior in childhood is influenced by parent’s food behavior, and children inclusion in the school environment. …”
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