... Chinese Mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module inchildrenwithcancer living in mainland China Background Currently, an increasing number of childrenwithcancer ... Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module inchildrenwithcancer Method Participants and Settings This study was developed in the cities of Shanghai and Chongqing, China We recruited childrenwithcancer and ... Measuring health-related quality of life inchildrenwithcancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0...
... http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/3/1/2 Vaso-occlusive pain was defined as pain that could not be explained by injury or infection requiring hospital admission and treatment with intravenous ... of asthma on individuals with sickle cell anemia In this study, we examined hospitalized childrenwith sickle cell disease with concomitant asthma establishing whether there was an increased rate ... of 42 childrenwith HgbSS and with HgbSC The control group (17 males and 31 females) included 41 childrenwith HgbSS and with HgbSC The age of the children ranged from to 18 years old with a...
... speech inchildrenwith mild forms of CP Conclusion Childrenwith mild spastic CP showed greater STIs in PS tasks, but not in MS tasks, than childrenwith TD These findings suggest that childrenwith ... consonants/number of correct plus incorrect consonants) [25] The PCC ranged from 80.099.0% inchildrenwith CP, and 95.5-100.0% in TD childrenIn order to test intra-rater and inter-rater reliabilities, ... rehabilitating high-demanding articulatory movement, which is shown to be more challenging to CP childrenin this study This type of training may be beneficial for younger childrenwith mild CP...
... studied in more details because this may be important for designing appropriate familybased interventions inchildrenwith newly diagnosed cancer Probably, findings from studies in pediatric cancer ... Descriptive information about the sample is contained in Table Sex of patients was not equally distributed, with more boys taking part in the study This is consistent with findings of several international ... family needs to be targeted in order to improve the HRQOL inchildren and adolescents withcancer Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions...
... discuss any changing needs with your child’s health care team Protein Protein is an essential part of any diet It helps build and maintain muscle, bone, skin, organs, and blood Some proteins help fight ... 27 grams of protein a day before starting dialysis 60 × 0.45 = 27 Limiting a child to this amount may be difficult because some foods contain that much protein in a single serving You may need ... Disease in Adults I Nutrition inChildrenwith Chronic Kidney Disease For free single printed copies of this series, please contact the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse...
... surgery/interventions (including ablations) 1.1 Without remaining findings (complete correction) 1.2 With minimal findings 1.3 With clinically significant findings 1.4 After palliative interventions: ... defects requiring surgery No sports A No (remaining) cardiac defects 1.1 Unlimited B Mild (remaining) findings 1.2; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4; 4.2 Unlimited C Clinically significant (remaining findings) 1.3; ... static component Running, skipping, jumping, cycling, swimming, inline skating, skateboarding, running games, ball games such as football – so-called small games Types of exercise with a high static/low...
... reduced in 64% of the childrenwith SCD-SS (Lal, Fung, Pakbaz, Hackney-Stephens, & Vichinsky, 2006) This finding was associated with deficient calcium intake and low serum vitamin D levels inchildren ... study examining vitamin A status inchildrenwith SCD-SS revealed that the mean serum retinol level was suboptimal in 66% of the children (Schall, Zemel, Kawchak, Ohene-Frempong, & Stallings, 2004) ... make contact with the skin and trigger vitamin D synthesis (National Institutes of Health [NIH], 2009c) Vitamin D is essential for promoting calcium absorption in the gut and maintaining adequate...
... multi-item index including subjective reporting of abdominal pain, general well-being, and diarrhea and physical findings, including linear growth and laboratory parameters (hematocrit, serum albumin, ... mucosal barrier It reverses the increased intestinal permeability induced by cow’s milk in young rats (23) and promotes intestinal barrier function inchildrenwith food allergy (24) These studies ... activity inchildrenwith mildly to moderately active, stable Crohn’s disease A dose of 1010 CFU twice a day resulted in intestinal colonization in all the patients, including those taking metronidazole...
... adolescents with SCD in clinics, day hospitals and inpatient settings (51) 2.4 Defining criteria and selecting a pain measurement tool in clinical settings In a clinical setting, the selection of pain ... the class of serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors for persisting neuropathic pain inchildren > 10 • Gabapentin for persisting neuropathic pain inchildren • Ketamine as an adjuvant ... guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain inchildrenwith medical illnesses WHO Library Cataloguing -in- Publication Data Persisting pain inchildren package: WHO guidelines...
... D: Influence of gender and interleukin-10 deficiency on the inflammatory response during lung infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice Immunology 2002, 107:297-305 Landgraf JM: Measuring ... stages of life and in this way to explore the impact of CF in the course of a lifetime In comparison to other studies investigating HRQoL inchildrenwith CF, the number of patients in this multicentre ... disease on daily life, they allow investigations in large populations Considering the advances in CF therapy and with regard to the recent increase in interest in PROs, the German CFQ-R, Child,...
... might be addressed in future studies However, since the peak incidence of childhood ALL is in young children, obtaining self reports will be a continuing problem in QoL studies during treatment Although ... continuing close monitoring and counselling of both child and family during the whole of treatment In HR children, reported scores on cognitive functioning were considerable lower than in NHR children, ... al [15] during the first, most intensive, year of treatment The decline in QoL for certain items during the second, less intensive year of treatment, might be related to an increasing cumulative...
... of HRQoL of childrenwith asthma This study is, to our knowledge, the first study that investigated predictors of HRQoL inchildrenwith asthma within the context of other predictors With this ... (DCGM-37) [14] was used If children experience limitations they will have difficulties with a particular event and with pursuing their goals 'Coping' was assessed with the COping with a DIsease (CODI) ... according to parent Figure Stress-coping model with Instruments and Measures Stress-coping model with Instruments and Measures Cronbach alpha values of 0.7 are regarded as satisfactory applying...
... processing and artificial intelligence as discrimination tools, rather than the trained clinical ear In clinical studies, accelerometry has demonstrated moderate agreement with videofluoroscopy in ... 6.0 ± 3.9 years with 64 males and 53 females Swallowing difficulty in all the participants was neurological in origin, with the overwhelming majority having a primary diagnosis of cerebral palsy ... units was increased as necessary during training to achieve the targeted performance Initially, all networks started with two basis units and this was increased by five at each training iteration...
... concentrations of progranulin in patients with relapsingremitting multiple sclerosis (MS) during relapses compared with patients with relapsing-remitting MS during remissions and with non-inflammatory controls ... Proteinase and neutrophil elastase enhance inflammation in mice by inactivating antiinflammatory progranulin J Clin Invest 2008, 118:2438-2447 24 He Z, Bateman A: Progranulin (granulin-epithelin ... of recombinant progranulin potently inhibited neutrophilic inflammation in vivo, demonstrating that progranulin represents a crucial inflammation-suppressing mediator [27] This antiinflammatory...
... role of cytokines in epileptogenesis remains to be elucidated Cytokines may contribute initially to incite seizures in the developing brain after being induced by seizure or tissue injury, and ... tissue, supporting the suggestion that neuroinflammation may contribute to epileptogenesis in the developing brain In order to determine whether active inflammation, including HMGB1 and pro-inflammatory ... child’s parents Cytokine measurement Levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines including HMGB1, IL-1b, IL-6, interferon (IFN)-b, TNF-a, and anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 were measured using commercially...
... tachykinins depends on their interaction with three specific tachykinin receptors, neurokinin (NK)1 (specific for substance P), NK2 (specific for neurokinin A) and NK3 (specific for neurokinin B) ... allergens, infectious agents and heavy metals), with a subequent increase in the release of this tachykinin from these cells Neuroendocrine hormones, including tackykinins, triggered during stress ... damaging inflammation within the CNS [39] Brain mast cells in some autoimmune neuroinflammatory diseases of CNS such as multiple sclerosis are activated by neural factors, including tachykinins...
... functions indicate dysregulated T cell functions in the ASD/SPAD children, but not in the non-ASD/SPAD children These findings may be associated with altered innate immune responses in the ASD/SPAD children ... the Institute of Genomic Medicine, UMDNJ-NJMS He has been involved in clinical studies of CGH, transcription profiling, and microRNA profiling in patients with various medical conditions including ... differences between ASD/SPAD children and non-ASD childrenwith SPAD (non-ASD/SPAD) in the routine immune workups Infectious complications observed in these ASD/SPAD childrenin our clinic were very similar...
... HRQoL, encompassing all three components of children s well-being, is still in its infancy inchildrenwith SCD [11] For example, compared to over 400 studies on HRQoL inchildrenwith cancer, research ... participating childrenwith SCD, we recruited nineteen healthy siblings (50%) in families from non-participating childrenwith SCD receiving care at our hospital These healthy siblings had similar ... HRQoL inchildrenwith SCD using a self-report measure and a control group of healthy siblings In general, the HRQoL of childrenwith SCD appeared similar to the HRQoL of healthy siblings, with...
... Meanwhile, we found that childrenwith PE did not have more behavioural problems than control group This finding is also in line with studies of psychosocial functioning inchildrenwith PE [8,19], but ... functioning of 337 children aged to 16 years old who were born in China The subjects included not only the children who would choose the surgery but also the children who would not Our findings ... the same answer, at least that information could be included All of the interviews were conducted by authors They had been trained in interviewing and administering questionnaires Answers were...
... might be addressed in future studies However, since the peak incidence of childhood ALL is in young children, obtaining self reports will be a continuing problem in QoL studies during treatment Although ... continuing close monitoring and counselling of both child and family during the whole of treatment In HR children, reported scores on cognitive functioning were considerable lower than in NHR children, ... al [15] during the first, most intensive, year of treatment The decline in QoL for certain items during the second, less intensive year of treatment, might be related to an increasing cumulative...