The purpose of this chapter is to describe the infant feeding practices among infants and toddlers (aged 0-24 months) and to describe food group consumption patterns of these infants and young children (0-48 months) participating in the 2008 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS). The FITS 2008 is a cross-sectional survey of a national sample of US children (n = 3,273). Results indicate a lo...

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence and intensity of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) in children aged 0-25 months and to identify the associated risk factors for Ascaris lumbricoides infections. The study was conducted in three villages outside Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria in May/June 2005. Stool samples (369) were processed by formol-ether concentratio...

Introduction: Globally, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent ahead HIV/AIDS. Approximately 10 million people contracted TB in 2017, 10% whom were children aged 0 - 15 years, or about 1 with 250,000 deaths 2016 (including HIV-associated TB). The signs are not always specific and diagnosis remains difficult unlike adults. According to study conducted 2011 paed...

Introduction: Worldwide over 195 million under five children are affected by malnutrition; 90% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The prevalence of underweight children under five years of age in different regions of the world is expected to decline, but in sub-Saharan Africa, it will increase from 24 million children in 1990 to 43 million in 2015. Ethiopia is among the Sub Saha...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS This study investigated the development of otolithic-ocular reflex in small children (<3 years old) via the ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) test. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. METHODS Twenty full-term newborns (group A), 15 children aged 1 to 3 years (group B), and 15 children aged 4 to 13 years (group C) were enrolled in this study. All children ...