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Open AccessRisk for severe outcomes of COVID-19 and PIMS-TS in children with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Germany
Although children and adolescents have a lower burden of SARS-CoV-2-associated disease compared to adults, assessing the risk for severe outcomes among SARS-CoV-2-infected children remains difficult due to a h...
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Epidemiologie
Dieses Kapitel befasst sich mit der Epidemiologie der Adipositas, wobei epidemioloigsche Grundbegriffe sowie typische Untersuchungsszenarien (Korrelationsstudien oder analytische Studien) beschrieben werden. R...
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Prävention und Epidemiologie
Prävention hat einen bevölkerungsbezogenen Ansatz. Durch Vorsorgemaßnahmen bei primär Gesunden bzw. gesund Erscheinenden sollen Erkrankungen verhindert werden. Epidemiologie beschäftigt sich mit dem Auftreten ...
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Vorsorgeuntersuchungen
Seit Anfang der 1970er-Jahre gibt es in Deutschland ein Früherkennungsprogramm für Kinder und Jugendliche, das sich seitdem beständig weiterentwickelt hat). Die acht Untersuchungen (U1 bis U8), wurden später u...
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Prävention und Epidemiologie in der Pädiatrie
Prävention hat einen bevölkerungsbezogenen Ansatz. Durch Vorsorgemaßnahmen bei primär Gesunden bzw. gesund Erscheinenden sollen Erkrankungen verhindert werden. Epidemiologie beschäftigt sich mit dem Auftreten ...
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Sozialpädiatrie
Die Sozialpädiatrie ist ein Querschnittfach in der Kinder- und Jugendmedizin und folgt einem biopsychosozialen Verständnis von Gesundheit und Krankheit. Sie umfasst die individualmedizinische Differentialdiagn...
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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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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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Feeding disorders in ex-prematures: causes - response to therapy - long term outcome
Feeding disorders in ex-prematures do exist and may constitute a major challenge to their families’ well being. A cases series of 86 ex-prematures with severe feeding disorders was analysed regarding co-morbid...
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Paediatric multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis in Germany: results of a nationwide survey
The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of paediatric multiple sclerosis (MS) and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) in Germany. In a prospective nationwide survey carried out between 1997...
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Invasive nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae infections in Germany: a case report of a previously healthy 7-year-old boy with an intracranial abscess, and epidemiological data from 2001 to 2004
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Immunisation status of children in Germany: temporal trends and regional differences
In Germany, a low coverage with hepatitis B and measles vaccines and a considerable delay in administration of all recommended vaccines were previously apparent. Whether there have been improvements and whethe...
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Sudden and unexpected deaths after the administration of hexavalent vaccines (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, Haemophilius influenzae type b): is there a signal?
Deaths in temporal association with vaccination of hexavalent vaccines have been recently reported. The objective of this paper is to assess whether these temporal associations can be attributed to chance. Sta...
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Protective Effect of Breastfeeding Against Obesity in Childhood
The relationship between breast-feeding and childhood obesity is of great interest.. Since 2000, sixteen studies have been published with conflicting data regarding the potential protective effect of breast-fe...
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Frequencies of inherited organic acidurias and disorders of mitochondrial fatty acid transport and oxidation in Germany
The lack of epidemiological data on the frequency and/or burden of organic acidurias (OA) and mitochondrial fatty acid transport and oxidation disorders (mtFATOD) is one reason for hesitation to expand newborn...
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Data required for the evaluation of newborn screening programmes
Tandem mass spectrometry offers the chance to improve newborn screening (NBS) for phenylketonuria and to expand screening programmes at minimal additional costs. So far, however, there are only limited data av...
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Will the 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine have a similar impact on all invasive pneumococcal infections in children in Germany as in the Kaiser Permanente Trial?
A 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate (7-vPc) vaccine was shown to be highly effective in California preventing 89.1% of all invasive pneumococcal infections (IPI) regardless of serotype. There is concern whether...
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Childhood obesity is associated with maternal smoking in pregnancy
Overweight and obesity are major public health issues. Childhood obesity often persists throughout adulthood. Recently a higher prevalence of obesity in adults whose mothers smoked during pregnancy was report...
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Mothers with Asthma: Does breastfeeding increase the asthma risk in their children?
The association between breastfeeding and the development of atopic diseases in childhood remains controversial. While several studies, including prospective ones, found a reduction in the risk of atopic disea...
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Thrombosen im Kindesalter
Eine ▸ Thrombose ist definiert als völliger oder partieller Verschluß eines Blutgefäßes durch ein Gerinnsel; eine ▸ Thromboembolie als Obstruktion eines Gefäßes durch Thrombusanteile, die sich an anderer Stelle i...