{"title":"[Infantile and juvenile obesity: a medicosocial problem].","authors":"L Buta, I Someşan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors studied a series of 536 schoolchildren aged from 11 to 16 years. Anthropometric measurements defined 60 cases as having a ponderal excess of 10% to 50% in comparison to height. This ponderal excess was 10% to 20% by 11 children, 20% to 30% in 26 cases, 30% to 50% by 16 children and more than 50% by another 7 children. All the cases were due to an excess of ingested calories. 50% of children had one or both parents with excess of weight. The exogenous form of childhood obesity seems to be an important medical and social problem in our country and impose the reinforcement of prophylaxis by dietary measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"66-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500985","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":"[Arterial hypertension in children. I. The epidemiological and etiological aspects].","authors":"D Moraru","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present the etiology and the epidemiology of the hypertension in children. It is emphasized how important is to know the hypertension in children, which would allow to adopt measures in order to overt the hypertension's disasters in adults. It is defined the hypertension in children and there is presented the normal range od the arterial blood pressure as well as the methodology of measuring blood pressure in the arteries. There are presented the aspects concerning the incidence and the prevalence rates of hypertension in children, the factors that influence blood pressure and especially the risk markers. There are also brief presented the essential-hypertension and the etiology of the secondary hypertension.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"17-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500978","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":"[Taurine in pediatric nutrition].","authors":"M Bădulescu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Taurine was long considered as an end product of the metabolism od sulfur-containing amino-acids. A number of evidences accumulated in the last decade which suggest one major nutritional role of taurine and its conditional essentiality in man are presented. Some conditions associated with taurine deficiency in man and the need for dietary provision of taurine in infancy and in such conditions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"38-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500980","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":"[The newborn infant of a diabetic mother].","authors":"D Metea-Stefănescu, I Popa, D Moga, T Stana","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present a case of a newborn of a diabetic mother with fatal outcome in the 6th day postnatally. The principal troubles in newborn were: fetal macrosomy, hypoglycemia and a lot of congenital malformations. They discuss the relationship between the maternal alteration of hydrocarbonate metabolism and the troubles in fetus and newborn.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"52-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500982","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":"[The fat ration for the premature infant].","authors":"V Hurgoiu, S Mark","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors studied cantitative and calitative fat dietary intake in conditions of isocaloric energetic diets and effects on somatic development and on plasma levels of fats in 3 randomized populations of premature infants. They concluded that dietary intake of 3-6.4 g fats/kg b.w./24 hours permitted a satisfactory somatic development (weight, height, cranial circumference). In conditions of isocaloric energetic diets, levels of fat intake of 3g/kg b.w./24 hours delivered only the energy for proteic syntheses and levels of 5.6-6.4 g/kg b.w./24 hours also permitted the constitution of body deposits. The levels of total lipids and cholesterol were related to the dietary intake of fats. In case of dietary supplementation of linoleic acid, the plasma levels of cholesterol were reduced and the plasma levels of HDL were augmented.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"71-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500354","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":"[The respiratory manifestations of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in children].","authors":"V Popescu, D Dragomir","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present the pulmonary complications (infectious and non infectious) in children with AIDS. It is shown that in this group of children the pulmonary complications are the first cause of death, and among them, the most frequent are the interstitial lymphoid pneumonia and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"3-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500986","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":"[Pathogenetic mechanisms in neonatal infections].","authors":"V Popescu, C Arion","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors reviewed the pathogenetic mechanisms of ante-, intra- and postnatal infections of the newborn. They also discussed the results of the antenatal infections on embryo and foetus, and the clinical variants of intra- and postnatal infections. The attention is focused on the relationship between pathogenetic mechanisms and the relevant clinical and paraclinical alterations for the diagnosis of the most frequent encountered infections of the newborn.</p>","PeriodicalId":77318,"journal":{"name":"Pediatrie (Bucharest, Romania)","volume":"41 2","pages":"29-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12500981","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}