Reports and Findings

Impact of influenza on hospitalization rates in children with a range of chronic lung diseases

This large population-based study suggests a significant healthcare burden associated with influenza in children with a range of chronic lung diseases

Postvaccination Febrile Seizure Severity and Outcome

Vaccine-proximate febrile seizures accounted for a small proportion of all febrile seizures hospital presentations

Associations between major dietary patterns and testicular function in a population-based cohort of young men: results from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study

A potential negative association of a “Western” dietary pattern with male reproductive health was detected

Bronchodilator responsiveness in children with asthma is not influenced by spacer device selection

Spacer device was not associated with clinically important differences in lung function following bronchodilator inhalation in children with asthma

Impact of heart disease on maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in a low-resource setting

Occult maternal heart disease may be responsible for a substantial proportion of adverse pregnancy outcomes in low-resource settings

Differential SLC6A4 methylation: a predictive epigenetic marker of adiposity from birth to adulthood

These data suggest that altered methylation of CpG loci within SLC6A4 may provide a robust marker of adiposity across the life course

Concurrent developmental course of sleep problems and emotional/behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence as reflected by the dysregulation profile

Findings provide evidence for a strong association in the development of sleep problems and difficulties of dysregulation with emotion, cognition, and aggression

Single-breath washout and association with structural lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis

Acinar ventilation inhomogeneity measured by single-breath washout was not associated with structural lung disease on CT

Normative data of muscle fiber diameter of vastus lateralis during childhood: a field test

This short report highlights the requirement for contemporary age-specific normative data from a larger number of biopsies, including typically developing children

Multiple risk exposures for reading achievement in childhood and adolescence

Across 6 years of school, multiple risk-exposed children lagged behind low risk-exposed children in the order of years of lost gains in reading achievement