INTRODUCTION Food and beverage TV advertising contributes to childhood obesity. The current tax treatment of advertising as an ordinary business expense in the U.S. subsidizes marketing of nutritionally poor foods and beverages to children. This study models the effect of a national intervention that eliminates the tax subsidy of advertising nutritionally poor foods and beverages on TV to child...

AIMS The study aims to assess the prevalence of obesity, overweight and underweight in children enrolled in government primary schools (6-11 years of age) in the city of Milan, Italy. METHODS One hundred and nine schools were randomly selected for the study. A cross-sectional study was conducted between March and June 2008. A survey was conducted using 16,588 questionnaires completed by paren...

Abstract Introduction The Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) has been demonstrated to successfully prevent sudden cardiac death in children and young adults. A wide range of device-related complications/malfunctions have described, which depend on the intrinsic design defibrillation system [Transvenous (TV-ICD) vs Subcutaneous (S-ICD)]. Objective To compare complications inappropriate...

Exposure to traumatic events is common in children and adolescent. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional reaction to traumatic events, which is increasingly recognized to be a prevalent and disabling disorder. The aim of this study is to determine the distribution of normative life events which predicts PTSD in youth who referred to an outpatient clinic in Rasht, Iran. This stud...

Introduction. This study investigates the association between ethnic background and overweight (obesity included) among 5 year olds. Methods. We used baseline data from 5 year olds (n = 7801) and their parents collected for the "Be active, eat right" study. A child was considered to be of non-Dutch ethnic background when at least one of the parents was born abroad. Odds ratios (ORs) were adjust...

By the age of five years, between 1 in 40 and 1 in 77 children in Europe and the USA will have been hospitalised for rotavirus diarrhoea. Although health care and economic costs of the illness are high, mortality in developed countries is very low. In contrast with the developing world, and despite considerable efforts to educate carers in simple oral rehydration therapy, it is estimated that 6...

The cost-benefit ratio of tetravalent rhesus rotavirus vaccine (RRV-TV) in Finland for prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis was assessed in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Costs related to vaccination, side effects, and gastroenteritis were identified. Children received RRV-TV (n = 1,191) or placebo (n = 1,207) at 2, 3, and 5 months of age with other infant vaccinations...

Objective A matched case-control study was conducted in a Spanish children and adolescent population (5-18 years old), to assess the interaction between the Gln27Glu polymorphism of the ADRB2 and television (TV) watching on obesity risk. 25

Review: Anna Mik, Signs of Exclusion. Monsters Inspired by Greek and Roman Mythology as Symbols Rejected Minorities in Literature, Film, TV-Series for Children Young Adults: From Mid-20th Until Early 21st Century, Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 2022.