The Effect of Child Abuse on University Student’s Psychological Status: A Retrospective study by Pary M. Azize, Farida A. Kadir, Lavin Luqman Othman

“…There are two questions that this research will try to answer; have more females experienced one or multiple types of abuse during their childhood compared to male? And have the ones who have experienced abuse suffered from a degree of depression at the time of the abuse. …”
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Determining barriers and facilitators to engagement for families in a family-based, multicomponent healthy lifestyles intervention for children and adolescents: a qualitative study by Yvonne C Anderson, Paul L Hofman, Cervantée EK Wild, Ngauru T Rawiri, Esther J Willing

“…Objectives Recruitment and retention in child and adolescent healthy lifestyle intervention services for childhood obesity is challenging, and inequalities across social groups are persistent. …”
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Risk factors and metabolic control degree in diabetic patients older than 8 years by Antonio Masot Rangel, Dinorah Janet Torres Lugo, Iván Castillo Ledo, Silvia Janet Masot Torres, Laura Vazquez Pis, Iriam Rojas Díaz

“…<p><strong>Foundation</strong>: Type 1 diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood. The progressively longer survival of diabetic children is associated with an increase in the prevalence of complications. …”
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Occurrence of Cytomegalovirus among pregnant antenatal women within Bauchi metropolis, Nigeria by Timothy Waje, Mahmud Yerima Iliyasu, Ahmed Faruk Umar, Ediga B. Agbo

“…Similarly, one-time miscarriages (40.62 %) and a history of late childhood (80 %) were positive. The diabetic patient (100 %) and women without knowledge of their health status (40.53 %) had the highest prevalence of clinical history. …”
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Ethnic Differences in Risk Factors for Obesity among Adults in California, the United States by Liang Wang, Jodi Southerland, Kesheng Wang, Beth A. Bailey, Arsham Alamian, Marc A. Stevens, Youfa Wang

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Factors associated with lingual tonsil hypertrophy in Canadian adults by Matthew S. Harris, Brian W. Rotenberg, Kathryn Roth, Leigh J. Sowerby

“…Reflux symptom index, history of allergy and history of childhood tonsillectomy are not associated with LTH.…”
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Is economic inequality in maternal and child healthcare decreasing in India? Trends between 2005–2006, 2015–2016 and 2019–2021 by Niranjan Saggurti, Rajib Acharya, Abhishek Kumar, Rimjhim Bajpai

“…Bivariate analyses, ratio of richest to poorest, slope index of inequality (SII) and multivariate binary logistic regression analyses were used to examine the coverage as well as inequalities in the outcome indicators for India and its states and at district level.Primary outcomes The outcome variables analysed in the study were full antenatal care, institutional delivery, postnatal care of mothers within 48 hours of delivery, and full immunisation among children.Participants Women aged 15–49 who had given a birth in the last 5 years before the surveys were unit of analysis for the maternal healthcare indicators, and children aged 12–23 months were unit of the analysis for childhood immunisation.Results Over the last 15 years, coverage of the MCH indicators has increased in India and across socioeconomic segment of the population, and the absolute increase was higher among the worse-off segments than the better-off. …”
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Case Report: Nephrotic syndrome as the primary manifestation of Alport syndrome in a Chinese pediatric patient by Yue Song, Yifei Li, Liqun Lu, Changqiang Yang, Jing Lu

“…The clinical manifestations of AS vary in patients. Cases of childhood AS caused by COL4A3 presenting primarily with nephrotic syndrome (NS) are rarely reported. …”
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Impacts of anemia and its determinants among 6–59 months age children residing in Dayniile internally displaced person’s camps, Banadir region, Somalia by Abdirasak Sharif Ali Mude, Farhia Abdullahi Ali, Sumaya Hassan Ali

“…CONCLUSION: Our study, along with previous research, underscores the complexity of the prevalence of childhood anemia and its contributing factors. Addressing anemia in children from lower-income families and urban areas requires tailored intervention. …”
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A Novel Rat Infant Model of Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Reveals New Insight into the Molecular Biology and Epileptogenesis in the Developing Brain by Carola Wormuth, Anna Papazoglou, Christina Henseler, Dan Ehninger, Karl Broich, Britta Haenisch, Jürgen Hescheler, Rüdiger Köhling, Marco Weiergräber

“…From a translational point of view, our model could serve as a blueprint for childhood epileptic disorders and further contribute to antiepileptic drug research and development in the future.…”
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Prevalence, and Intellectual Outcome of Unilateral Focal Cortical Brain Damage as a Function of Age, Sex and Aetiology by C. M. J. Braun, I. Montour-Proulx, S. Daigneault, I. Rouleau, S. Kuehn, M. Piskopos, G. Desmarais, F. Lussier, C. Rainville

“…However, a disproportion in prevalence of brain damage between the sexes in childhood may be less suspected. Furthermore, sex-specific risk for other aetiologies of brain damage may be little known, whether in the pediatric or adult populations. …”
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Role of GeneXpert MTB/Rif Assay in Diagnosing Tuberculosis in Pregnancy and Puerperium by Zaiyad G. Habib, Farouq M. Dayyab, Abdallah Sanda, Sirajo H. Tambuwal, Mahmood M. Dalhat, Hamza Muhammad, Garba Iliyasu, Ibrahim Nashabaru, Abdulrazaq G. Habib

“…To strengthen maternal and childhood TB control, screening with same-day point-of-care Xpert MTB/RIF is advocated among both HIV positive pregnant women and symptomatic HIV negative pregnant women during antenatal care in pregnancy and at puerperium.…”
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Unprotected Sex with Injecting Drug Users among Iranian Female Sex Workers: Unhide HIV Risk Study by Khodabakhsh Ahmadi, Majid Rezazade, Mohammad Nafarie, Babak Moazen, Mosaieb Yarmohmmadi Vasel, Shervin Assari

“…Higher educational level (OR=−0.653, 95%CI=-1.192 to −0.115), perceived HIV risk (OR=−1.047, 95%CI=-2.076 to −0.019), and perceived family intimacy during childhood (OR=−1.104, 95%CI=-1.957 to −0.251) were all independently associated with lower odds of having unprotected sex with IDU(s) in the month preceding the study. …”
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Managing Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy in Indonesia: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Hypoallergenic Milk Formulas from the Private Payers’ Perspective by Ana Teresa Paquete, Rui Martins, Mark P. Connolly, Badriul Hegar, Zakiudin Munasir, Stephanus Stephanus

“…**Background:** Cow’s milk protein allergy is very common in early childhood. Extensively hydrolyzed formulas are recommended in the first-line management of cow’s milk protein allergy in non-breastfed children. …”
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Adult Nephroblastoma with Predominant Epithelial Component: A Differential Diagnostic Candidate of Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma and Metanephric Adenoma—Report of Three Cases by Shiho Watanabe, Hiroshi Naganuma, Michio Shimizu, Satoshi Ota, Shin-ichi Murata, Naoki Nihei, Jun Matsushima, Shuji Mikami, Naoto Kuroda, Yoji Nagashima, Yukio Nakatani

“…Although nephroblastoma is the commonest renal tumor of childhood, it is rare in adults. In cases of predominantly epithelial type occurring in adulthood, it might be difficult to distinguish it from papillary renal cell carcinoma and metanephric adenoma. …”
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Congenital vitamin D deficiency: presenting with feeding difficulty in early infancy: a case report by Mesfin Wubishet, Tesfa G. Meskel, Kibret Enyew

“…The mother, who has worn a niqab since childhood, had minimal sun exposure, contributing to her low vitamin D levels. …”
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The type of diet consumed during prepuberty modulates plasma cholesterol, hepatic LXRα expression, and DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation during adulthood in male rats. by Ana Aguilar-Lozano, Berenice Palacios-González, Martha Guevara-Cruz, Armando R Tovar, Alam Palma-Guzman, Lilia G Noriega

“…Childhood obesity increases the risk of developing metabolic diseases in adulthood, since environmental stimuli during critical windows of development can impact on adult metabolic health. …”
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Fetal and Neonatal Levels of Omega-3: Effects on Neurodevelopment, Nutrition, and Growth by Juliana Rombaldi Bernardi, Renata de Souza Escobar, Charles Francisco Ferreira, Patrícia Pelufo Silveira

“…Nutrition in pregnancy, during lactation, childhood, and later stages has a fundamental influence on overall development. …”
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Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding experience of women with epilepsy in Me’enit community, South West Ethiopia by Rahel Yaekob, Tefera Belachew

“…The discrimination started right from childhood as soon as they manifested the diseases. …”
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Central Nervous System Involvement in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura in Children and Adolescents by Iliyana H. Pacheva, Ivan S. Ivanov, Krastina Stefanova, Elena Chepisheva, Lyubov Chochkova, Dafina Grozeva, Angelina Stoyanova, Stojan Milenkov, Penka Stefanova, Anna Petrova

“…HSP can be an etiological factor for PRES in childhood. Although PRES is a rare complication of HSP, clinicians must be aware of it and avoid diagnostic and therapeutic delays.…”
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