Results Of the 75 new patients, 23 (31%) families had concerns about ADHD. Of these, 70% were male; the average age was 11.2 ± 3.1 years; and 80% also received care from specialists. Eleven patients (48%) were taking a prescription medication, but only 3 (13%) were taking medicine for ADHD; dietary supplements were taken by 12 patients (52%). Most families were interested in health promotion in...

BACKGROUND Better risk predictions for colorectal cancer (CRC) could improve prevention strategies by allowing clinicians to more accurately identify high-risk individuals. The National Cancer Institute's CRC risk calculator was created by Freedman et al using case control data. METHODS An online risk calculator was created using data from the Multi-Ethnic Cohort Study, which followed >180,00...

BACKGROUND Multivitamin supplementation in pregnant women may reduce the risks of cardiovascular defects, oral clefts, and urinary tract defects in their infants. We evaluated whether the folic acid component of multivitamins is responsible for the reduction in risk by examining the associations between maternal use of folic acid antagonists and these congenital malformations. METHODS We comp...

Supplementation with antioxidant vitamins has been associated with decreased risk of stomach cancer or regression of precancerous lesions in high-risk areas of China and Colombia. We examined the association between stomach cancer mortality and regular use (> or =15 times per month) of individual vitamin C supplements, individual vitamin E supplements, and multivitamins among 1,045,923 United S...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of zinc supplementation on the clinical course, stool weight, duration of diarrhoea, changes in serum zinc, and body weight gain of children with acute diarrhoea. DESIGN Randomised double blind controlled trial. Children were assigned to receive zinc (20 mg elemental zinc per day) containing multivitamins or control group (zinc-free multivitamins) daily in thr...