{"title":"Medically cleared and waiting for healing to begin","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00158-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00158-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 8","pages":"Pages 557-558"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141302359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathrin E Zangerl Dr med univ MSc , Katarina Hoernke MBBS MSc , Marike Andreas MSc , Sarah L Dalglish PhD , Prof Ilan Kelman PhD , Prof Maria Nilsson PhD , Prof Joacim Rockloev PhD , Prof Till Bärnighausen MD , Shannon A McMahon PhD
{"title":"Child health prioritisation in national adaptation policies on climate change: a policy document analysis across 160 countries","authors":"Kathrin E Zangerl Dr med univ MSc , Katarina Hoernke MBBS MSc , Marike Andreas MSc , Sarah L Dalglish PhD , Prof Ilan Kelman PhD , Prof Maria Nilsson PhD , Prof Joacim Rockloev PhD , Prof Till Bärnighausen MD , Shannon A McMahon PhD","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00084-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00084-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Integration of child-specific adaptation measures into health policies is imperative given children's heightened susceptibility to the health impacts of climate change. Using a document analysis method, we examined 160 national adaptation policies for inclusion of child-relevant measures and identified 19 child health-related adaptation domains. 44 (28%) of 160 countries' policies that were analysed failed to include any domains, 49 (31%) included at least one child-related domain, 62 (39%) included between two and six domains, and five (3%) included at least seven domains. Predominant domains among child-specific adaptation measures included education and awareness raising, followed by community engagement and nutrition. No country addressed children's direct needs in the domain of mental health. National adaptation policies tend towards overly simple conceptualisations of children across four major lenses: age, social role, gender, and agency. Limited inclusion of child-specific measures in national adaptation policies suggests insufficient recognition of and action on children's susceptibility to climate change effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 7","pages":"Pages 532-544"},"PeriodicalIF":36.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352464224000841/pdfft?md5=166872ecc37459fe83022aad98c79ede&pid=1-s2.0-S2352464224000841-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141289091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prof Julie C Leonard MD , Monica Harding MS , Prof Lawrence J Cook PhD , Prof Jeffrey R Leonard MD , Prof Kathleen M Adelgais MD , Fahd A Ahmad MD , Prof Lorin R Browne DO , Rebecca K Burger MD , Pradip P Chaudhari MD , Daniel J Corwin MD , Nicolaus W Glomb MD , Lois K Lee MD , Sylvia Owusu-Ansah MD , Lauren C Riney DO , Prof Alexander J Rogers MD , Daniel M Rubalcava MD , Prof Robert E Sapien MD , Matthew A Szadkowski MD , Prof Leah Tzimenatos MD , Caleb E Ward MB BChir , Prof Nathan Kuppermann MD
{"title":"PECARN prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study","authors":"Prof Julie C Leonard MD , Monica Harding MS , Prof Lawrence J Cook PhD , Prof Jeffrey R Leonard MD , Prof Kathleen M Adelgais MD , Fahd A Ahmad MD , Prof Lorin R Browne DO , Rebecca K Burger MD , Pradip P Chaudhari MD , Daniel J Corwin MD , Nicolaus W Glomb MD , Lois K Lee MD , Sylvia Owusu-Ansah MD , Lauren C Riney DO , Prof Alexander J Rogers MD , Daniel M Rubalcava MD , Prof Robert E Sapien MD , Matthew A Szadkowski MD , Prof Leah Tzimenatos MD , Caleb E Ward MB BChir , Prof Nathan Kuppermann MD","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00104-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00104-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Cervical spine injuries in children are uncommon but potentially devastating; however, indiscriminate neck imaging after trauma unnecessarily exposes children to ionising radiation. The aim of this study was to derive and validate a paediatric clinical prediction rule that can be incorporated into an algorithm to guide radiographic screening for cervical spine injury among children in the emergency department.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In this prospective observational cohort study, we screened children aged 0–17 years presenting with known or suspected blunt trauma at 18 specialised children's emergency departments in hospitals in the USA affiliated with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Injured children were eligible for enrolment into derivation or validation cohorts by fulfilling one of the following criteria: transported from the scene of injury to the emergency department by emergency medical services; evaluated by a trauma team; and undergone neck imaging for concern for cervical spine injury either at or before arriving at the PECARN-affiliated emergency department. Children presenting with solely penetrating trauma were excluded. Before viewing an enrolled child's neck imaging results, the attending emergency department clinician completed a clinical examination and prospectively documented cervical spine injury risk factors in an electronic questionnaire. Cervical spine injuries were determined by imaging reports and telephone follow-up with guardians within 21–28 days of the emergency room encounter, and cervical spine injury was confirmed by a paediatric neurosurgeon. Factors associated with a high risk of cervical spine injury (>10%) were identified by bivariable Poisson regression with robust error estimates, and factors associated with non-negligible risk were identified by classification and regression tree (CART) analysis. Variables were combined in the cervical spine injury prediction rule. The primary outcome of interest was cervical spine injury within 28 days of initial trauma warranting inpatient observation or surgical intervention. Rule performance measures were calculated for both derivation and validation cohorts. A clinical care algorithm for determining which risk factors warrant radiographic screening for cervical spine injury after blunt trauma was applied to the study population to estimate the potential effect on reducing CT and x-ray use in the paediatric emergency department. This study is registered with <span>ClinicalTrials.gov</span><svg><path></path></svg>, <span>NCT05049330</span><svg><path></path></svg>.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>Nine emergency departments participated in the derivation cohort, and nine participated in the validation cohort. In total, 22 430 children presenting with known or suspected blunt trauma were enrolled (11 857 children in the derivation cohort; 10 573 in the validation cohort). 433 (1·9%) of the total popula","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 7","pages":"Pages 482-490"},"PeriodicalIF":36.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141282058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ozge Sensoy Bahar , Alice Boateng , Abdallah Ibrahim , Mary M McKay , Fred M Ssewamala
{"title":"Adolescent girls at the intersection of poverty, migration, and gender","authors":"Ozge Sensoy Bahar , Alice Boateng , Abdallah Ibrahim , Mary M McKay , Fred M Ssewamala","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00099-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00099-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 7","pages":"Pages 469-471"},"PeriodicalIF":36.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141088156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lipoprotein apheresis and long-term cardiovascular health: a real answer for children with HoFH?","authors":"Ari Horton","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00105-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00105-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 7","pages":"Pages 468-469"},"PeriodicalIF":36.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141043949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Doortje Reijman MD , Tycho R Tromp PhD , Barbara A Hutten PhD , Prof G Kees Hovingh PhD , Dirk J Blom PhD , Prof Alberico L Catapano PhD , Marina Cuchel PhD , Prof Eldad J Dann MD , Antonio Gallo PhD , Lisa C Hudgins MD , Prof Frederick J Raal PhD , Prof Kausik K Ray FMedSci , Fouzia Sadiq PhD , Handrean Soran MD , Prof Jaap W Groothoff PhD , Albert Wiegman PhD , D Meeike Kusters PhD , Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolaemia International Clinical Collaborators (HICC) , Children with Homozygous Hypercholesterolemia on Lipoprotein Apheresis: an International Registry (CHAIN) consortia
{"title":"Cardiovascular outcomes in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia on lipoprotein apheresis initiated during childhood: long-term follow-up of an international cohort from two registries","authors":"M Doortje Reijman MD , Tycho R Tromp PhD , Barbara A Hutten PhD , Prof G Kees Hovingh PhD , Dirk J Blom PhD , Prof Alberico L Catapano PhD , Marina Cuchel PhD , Prof Eldad J Dann MD , Antonio Gallo PhD , Lisa C Hudgins MD , Prof Frederick J Raal PhD , Prof Kausik K Ray FMedSci , Fouzia Sadiq PhD , Handrean Soran MD , Prof Jaap W Groothoff PhD , Albert Wiegman PhD , D Meeike Kusters PhD , Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolaemia International Clinical Collaborators (HICC) , Children with Homozygous Hypercholesterolemia on Lipoprotein Apheresis: an International Registry (CHAIN) consortia","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00073-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00073-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) is a rare genetic disease characterised by extremely high plasma LDL cholesterol from birth, causing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at a young age. Lipoprotein apheresis in combination with lipid-lowering drugs effectively reduce LDL cholesterol, but long-term health outcomes of such treatment are unknown. We aimed to investigate the long-term cardiovascular outcomes associated with lipoprotein apheresis initiated in childhood or adolescence.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In this cohort study, data were drawn from the HoFH International Clinical Collaboration (HICC) and the international registry for Children with Homozygous Hypercholesterolemia on Lipoprotein Apheresis (CHAIN). An overall cohort included patients diagnosed with HoFH aged 0–18 years who were alive and in follow-up between Jan 1, 2010, and Nov 8, 2021, and whose high plasma LDL cholesterol concentrations made them eligible for lipoprotein apheresis. To compare cardiovascular outcomes, patients who initiated lipoprotein apheresis in childhood (lipoprotein apheresis group) and patients who only received lipid-lowering drugs (pharmacotherapy-only group) were matched by sex and untreated plasma LDL cholesterol concentrations. The primary outcome was a composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve replacement, peripheral artery disease, carotid endarterectomy, angina pectoris, and supra-aortic or aortic stenosis (collectively referred to as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease), for which survival analyses were performed in the matched cohort. Cox regression analyses were used to compare disease-free survival between cohorts and to calculate hazard ratio (HR) and 95% CI adjusted for sex, age at diagnosis, untreated plasma LDL cholesterol concentration, and number of lipid-lowering therapies other than lipoprotein apheresis.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>The overall cohort included 404 patients with a median age at diagnosis of 6·0 years (IQR 3·0–9·5) and median untreated plasma LDL cholesterol of 17·8 mmol/L (14·7–20·8). The matched cohorts included 250 patients (125 patients per group), with a median untreated LDL cholesterol of 17·2 mmol/L (14·8–19·7). Mean reduction in plasma LDL cholesterol concentrations between baseline and final follow-up was greater in the lipoprotein apheresis group (–55% [95% CI –60 to –51] <em>vs</em> –31% [–36 to –25]; p<0·0001). Patients in the lipoprotein apheresis group had longer atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease-free survival (adjusted HR 0·52 [95% CI 0·32–0·85]) and longer cardiovascular death-free survival (0·0301 [0·0021–0·4295]). Cardiovascular death was more common in the pharmacotherapy-only group than in the lipoprotein apheresis group (ten [8%] <em>vs</em> one [1%]; p=0·010), whereas median age at coronary artery bypass grafting was lo","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 7","pages":"Pages 491-499"},"PeriodicalIF":36.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141040290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring change from residential housing care to family-based care for children","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00102-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00102-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54238,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Child & Adolescent Health","volume":"8 8","pages":"Pages 549-550"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141054652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}