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Open AccessNeighbourhood socioeconomic context, individual socioeconomic position, and overweight in young children: a multilevel study in a large German city
The context of the close neighbourhood environment in which children live has gained increasing attention in epidemiological research. This study aimed to investigate if contextual neighbourhood socioeconomic ...
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Open AccessMethods for Health Economic Evaluation of Vaccines and Immunization Decision Frameworks: A Consensus Framework from a European Vaccine Economics Community
Incremental cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses [health economic evaluations (HEEs)] of vaccines are routinely considered in decision making on immunization in various industrialized countries. While...
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Background Paper for the update of meningococcal vaccination recommendations in Germany: use of the serogroup B vaccine in persons at increased risk for meningococcal disease
In December 2013 Bexsero® became available in Germany for vaccination against serogroup B meningococci (MenB). In August 2015 the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) endorsed a recommendation for ...
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Excessive gestational weight gain prior to glucose screening and the risk of gestational diabetes: a meta-analysis
Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) may be a risk factor for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We aimed to study the association between excessive GWG (defined according to Institute of Medicine recomme...
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Open AccessMigraine and tension type headache in adolescents at grammar school in Germany – burden of disease and health care utilization
Tension-type headache and migraine are among the most prevalent chronic disorders in children/adolescents. Data on health care utilization for headache in this age group, however, are sparse.
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Headache in School Children: Is the Prevalence Increasing?
The objectives of this systematic review were to examine age dependency of headache prevalence in school age children and to assess secular trends of headache prevalence in the last decade, gender and regional...
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Open AccessEffects of trimester-specific and total gestational weight gain on children’s anthropometrics
Gestational weight gain (GWG) has been shown to be a risk factor for overweight in offspring.
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Open AccessHigh diagnostic stability of confirmed migraine and confirmed tension-type headache according to the ICHD-3 beta in adolescents
Stable headache diagnosis classification is a prerequisite for identification of headache type specific risk factors. Does the stability of a headache diagnosis over time vary between migraine and tension-type...
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Open AccessUnderstanding interventions for improving routine immunization coverage in children in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol
Virtually all low- and middle-income countries are dependent on the World Health Organization’s Expanded Program on Immunization for delivery of vaccines to children. The Expanded Program on Immunization deliv...
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Open AccessIdentified risk factors and adolescents’ beliefs about triggers for headaches: results from a cross-sectional study
Although there are few studies on adolescents’ beliefs about triggers of headache, none of these compared the associations between perceived and observed triggers. This study aimed at comparing the prevalence ...
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Reducing gestational weight gain—a panacea?
Reducing gestational weight gain is possible and may avoid some obstetric, perinatal and long-term metabolic risks for the mother and offspring. Reducing gestational weight gain, however, is not a panacea for ...
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From sleep duration to childhood obesity—what are the pathways?
Sleep duration has been identified as risk factor for obesity already in children. Besides investigating the role of fat mass (FM), this study addressed the question whether endocrine mechanisms act as interme...
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Adipositas und Übergewicht: Wie die Mutter, so die Kinder
Das Risiko für Übergewicht und Adipositas im Kindesalter kann bereits im Mutterleib programmiert werden. In Kohortenstudien wurden präkonzeptionelles Übergewicht / Adipositas der Mutter, Rauchen in der Schwang...
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Subjective and objective personal noise exposure and hypertension: an epidemiologic approach
Evidence for an association between chronic noise exposure and hypertension has been observed in several studies but suffers from limitations like crude exposure assessment. In this analysis, an association be...
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Is low birth weight in the causal pathway of the association between maternal smoking in pregnancy and higher BMI in the offspring?
A number of cross-sectional and prospective studies suggested a priming effect of maternal smoking in pregnancy on offspring’s obesity. It has been hypothesized that this association might be explained by low ...
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Open AccessAssociation between exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields assessed by dosimetry and acute symptoms in children and adolescents: a population based cross-sectional study
The increase in numbers of mobile phone users was accompanied by some concern that exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF) might adversely affect acute health especially in children and adol...
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Open AccessAsthma in changing environments - chances and challenges of international research collaborations between South America and Europe - study protocol and description of the data acquisition of a case-control-study
Asthma in children is an emerging public health problem in South America. So far, research in this part of the world is limited. This paper presents the methodology and description of the data acquisition of a...
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Open AccessMaternal postnatal depression and child growth: a European cohort study
Previous studies have reported postpartum depression to be associated with both positive and negative effects on early infant growth. This study examined the hypothesis that maternal postnatal depression may b...
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Open AccessThe association between use of electronic media and prevalence of headache in adolescents: results from a population-based cross-sectional study
Use of electronic media, i.e. mobile phones, computers, television, game consoles or listening to music, is very common, especially amongst adolescents. There is currently a debate about whether frequent use o...
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Exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields and behavioural problems in Bavarian children and adolescents
Only few studies have so far investigated possible health effects of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF) in children and adolescents, although experts discuss a potential higher vulnerability to su...
