INTRODUCTION To provide an epidemiological description of radial head subluxation, also known as nursemaid's elbow, from a database of emergency department visits. METHODS We conducted a retrospective medical record review of patients 6 years of age and younger, who presented to the ED between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2012, and were diagnosed with nursemaid's elbow. Inclusion criteri...

BACKGROUND There are over 7 million US high school athletes and one-third are overweight or obese. Our objective was to examine injury patterns by body mass index (BMI) in high school athletes. METHODS Certified athletic trainers (ATCs) at 100 nationally representative US high schools submitted exposure and injury information during the 2005 to 08 school years via High School RIO (Reporting I...

OBJECTIVE Maternal smoking has been associated with a reduction in newborn birth weight. We sought to estimate how the pattern of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy influences newborn size. METHODS One hundred sixty pregnant smoking women were enrolled in a prospective study. We collected data on maternal age, education, prepregnancy body mass index, and parity, as well as alcohol and illi...

dear editor, in spite of recent advances in treatment of infection and emphasis on adequate nutritional intake, patients with cystic fibrosis (cf) frequently have less than ideal body weight and adults are often shorter than their target height. 1 owing to a state of relative growth hormone (gh) insensitivity, the anabolic and growth promoting effects of recombinant human gh (rhgh) treatment ha...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) has been linked to renal disease both in animal models and human studies. However, the role of birth weight in the development of diabetic nephropathy is unclear. We, therefore, studied the impact of birth weight on the development of diabetic nephropathy and other related traits, such as diabetic retinopathy and macrovascular disease, in Caucasian type 1 diabe...

British adults who were born small for gestational age (birthweight below the fifth percentile for age at birth) in 1970 have academic difficulties that persist into adolescence. As young adults their professional and economic attainment was found to be lower than that of those born at normal birthweight. These results were obtained in the largest study to date on the long-term educational and ...

PURPOSE Overweight can be defined by the body mass index (BMI) and is likely associated with an increased cardiovascular disease risk. However, waist circumference (WC), a central adiposity index, may be a better indicator of cardiovascular disease risk. Studies comparing the effects of BMI and WC on cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure (BP), are rare in adolescents. METHO...