{"title":"Metabolic and hormonal effects of fasting in obese children.","authors":"D Molnár, G Soltész","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 30 hour fast induced a significant and comparable fall in blood glucose and branched-chain amino acid levels in both obese and control children, while the plasma levels of glycerol, lactate, pyruvate, cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and the rest of the amino acids remained unchanged. Sustained hyperinsulinism, sustained higher triglyceride levels and a lower degree of FFA mobilization characterized the plasma of obese children during fasting.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 1","pages":"45-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18093191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnosing and misdiagnosing malnutrition.","authors":"M Amador, M E González, L Córdova, N Pérez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the purpose of validating new tools as AKS and Energy/Protein Indices for a more precise diagnosis of malnutrition, specially in the case of constitutionally thin or constitutionally heavy subjects which could mistakenly be interpreted as undernourished or obese, two hundred healthy children, one hundred girls and one hundred boys 4.6 to 5.5 years of age, were studied. The limitations of weight for stature and the advantages of indicators which determine body composition as accurate measures of malnutrition were demonstrated. In a group of lean individuals with weight for stature under 90%, if E/P figures are under the 10th percentile and AKS is under 1.12, the subject is very likely to be undernourished. In contrast, if the subject, though underweight, shows an E/P Index above the 10th percentile and an AKS over 1.12, constitutional thinness should be considered. In overweight subjects, E/P figures above the 90th percentile point to obesity, while children with E/P between the 10th and 90th percentiles are probably stocky but not fatty subjects. The usefulness of the combination of the above mentioned criteria in cases suspected to be malnourished, and its introduction in daily practice, will prevent from iatrogenic practices due to erroneous diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 4","pages":"391-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18184184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neonatal oxygen toxicity and its prevention: D-penicillamine offers benefits without harmful side-effects.","authors":"G Oroszlán, L Lakatos, L Karmazsin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 4","pages":"459-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17815556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lymphocyte markers in childhood ALL: the lack of correlation with prognosis.","authors":"E Cristo Morón, T Révész, D Schuler","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Presentation blast cells from 39 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia were studied for T- or B-lymphocyte characteristics. Eleven patients had blasts with T-cell phenotype and one child had B-cell leukaemia. The rest belonged to the non-T, non-B group. Clinical features were similar in the T-cell and non-T, non-B cell group, including the initial WBC count and the presence of mediastinal mass. Although patients with T-cell leukaemia fared worse than those in the non-T, non-B group, the difference in survival was not statistically significant. These data are not in accordance with the findings of most other groups and are thought to stem from the chance occurrence of relatively low initial WBC counts in the T-cell group.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 2","pages":"171-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18030351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L Klujber, R Szücs, Z Baranyai, J Gabulya, G y Soltész
{"title":"Glycosaminoglycan and hydroxyproline excretion in diabetic children.","authors":"L Klujber, R Szücs, Z Baranyai, J Gabulya, G y Soltész","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 1","pages":"27-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17859211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L Lakatos, I Hatvani, G Oroszlán, L Karmazsin, B Matkovics
{"title":"D-penicillamine in the prevention of retrolental fibroplasia.","authors":"L Lakatos, I Hatvani, G Oroszlán, L Karmazsin, B Matkovics","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 3","pages":"327-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17947599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-term prognosis of asphyctic neonates from an intensive care unit: intrauterine retarded infants at high risk of cerebral palsy.","authors":"J Storcz, J Mestyán","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The surviving asphyctic infants born during the three-year period 1977 to 1979 and admitted to the regional neonatal intensive care unit were prospectively followed up to 2 and 4 years of age. According to outcome the children were divided into three subgroups: 1 who did not show any consequence of asphyxia; 2 who showed syndromes classified as cerebral palsy; 3 whose psychomotor functions were found to be retarded. The cerebral palsy group mainly consisted of children who were born with a weight deficit after 37 weeks gestation. Only 4 out of the 15 children were premature and among them only 1 was of very low birth weight. Thus, dysmaturity was the main somatic characteristic of the severely handicapped children. In addition to intrauterine growth retardation, the high rate of congenital anomalies was a further feature of the cerebral palsy group. Gestational complications (toxaemia, haemorrhage, threatening abortion or premature delivery), as well as the distortions of the most important biochemical variables (pH, calcium, bilirubins and glucose level) either in themselves or in combination had a similar incidence in the three subgroups. Among postnatal conditions, only the incidence of convulsions seemed to be important prognostically. On the basis of the great difference in outcome it is concluded that there is no simple relationship between asphyxia and eventual handicap. There are certainly some other noxious factors (e.g., dysmaturity, congenital anomalies, etc.) associated with, or related to asphyxia which can be of great aetiological significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 3","pages":"361-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17940603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"11q--syndrome.","authors":"M Osztovics, G Jójárt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":"23 2","pages":"239-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18152278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normal chromosomes in liveborn neonates weighing less than 1000 g.","authors":"K Méhes, K Bajnóczky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cytogenetic investigations were performed in 37 phenotypically normal, liveborn immature neonates. Their mean birth weight was 758 g (range, 490-980 g), the mean gestational age was 24.2 weeks (range, 20-28 weeks). All the infants had normal karyotypes, no conspicuous structural aberrations and variants were found. It is presumed that while pregnancies with chromosomally abnormal zygotes are often terminated as fetal wastage or stillbirth, the phenotypically normal liveborn babies born even at a very early gestational age are likely to have normal chromosomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":" ","pages":"41-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35266292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R K Whyte, J C Sinclair, H S Bayley, D Campbell, J Singer
{"title":"Energy cost of growth of premature infants.","authors":"R K Whyte, J C Sinclair, H S Bayley, D Campbell, J Singer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this paper is to review approaches to the determination of the energy cost of growth in premature infants. Two approaches are compared: one based on the composition of weight gain, and one based on the determination of energy balance. Data are lacking on the composition of weight gained by the premature infant after birth, while the composition of fetal weight gain and its energy cost can be calculated from data on fetal body composition. These calculations show that energy storage amounts to less than 8.4 kJ/g weight gain below a body weight of 2 kg; the total energy cost of growth is less than 10.5 kJ/g. Estimates twice as high have been obtained from energy balance studies of growing premature infants and older infants. We conclude that the energy cost of growth in premature infants is still uncertain and requires further study.</p>","PeriodicalId":75405,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae","volume":" ","pages":"85-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35266295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}