{"title":"Highlights from the literature.","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-328093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-328093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":"109 11","pages":"964"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians.","authors":"Bob Phillips","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-328060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-328060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":"109 11","pages":"954"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial food additives: hazardous to long-term health?","authors":"John O Warner","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326565","DOIUrl":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many additives, some of which have no nutritional value, can be legally used in processed foods. They intensify colour, thicken, increase shelf life and enhance flavour. Regulatory authorities issue approvals as safe within acceptable quantitative limits. Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) contain combinations of all these additives and are particularly attractive to children.Many publications suggest that artificial colourants, benzoate preservatives, non-caloric sweeteners, emulsifiers and their degradation derivatives have adverse effects by increasing risks of mental health disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and potential carcinogenic effects.A systematic review has established that artificial azo dye food colourants (AFCs) and sodium benzoate preservative cause disturbed behaviour in children. AFCs and benzoates in animal models have neurotoxic properties through gut microbial generation of toxic metabolites. Observational studies show associations between high emulsifier intake and cardiovascular disease. Animal models and in vitro studies have highlighted neurotoxic, cytotoxic, genotoxic and carcinogenic effects. High intake of non-caloric sweeteners has been linked to cardiovascular disease and depression in adults and is linked to childhood obesity.Little research has focused on children who are the largest consumers of UPFs. Potentially, they are a ticking time bomb for adult obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, mental health disorders and cancers. Based on risk/benefit analysis, azo dye AFCs should be banned. Benzoates, emulsifiers and sweeteners require assessment of quantitative limits and cumulative effects of combinations. Consumers purchasing UPFs require information through ingredient health warnings and recommendations to use natural unprocessed foods which have well-described health-promoting properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":" ","pages":"882-885"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139995392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Louise Oni, Caroline Platt, Matko Marlais, Liza McCann, Farah Barakat, Markus Hesseling, Hannah Cottis, Sue Protheroe, Gabrielle Haigh, Kerstin Nott, Julien Marro, Elizabeth King, Jane Kelly, Jill Sussens, Shirley Mulvaney, Thomas Whitby, Iona Morgan, Amita Sharma, Reem Al-Jayyousi, Chee Kay Cheung, Christopher Ng, Anthony David Lander, William Simmons, Charlotte Melling, Rebecca Grandison, Leanne Treitl, Alan D Salama, Jan Dudley
{"title":"National recommendations for the management of children and young people with IgA vasculitis: a best available evidence, group agreement-based approach.","authors":"Louise Oni, Caroline Platt, Matko Marlais, Liza McCann, Farah Barakat, Markus Hesseling, Hannah Cottis, Sue Protheroe, Gabrielle Haigh, Kerstin Nott, Julien Marro, Elizabeth King, Jane Kelly, Jill Sussens, Shirley Mulvaney, Thomas Whitby, Iona Morgan, Amita Sharma, Reem Al-Jayyousi, Chee Kay Cheung, Christopher Ng, Anthony David Lander, William Simmons, Charlotte Melling, Rebecca Grandison, Leanne Treitl, Alan D Salama, Jan Dudley","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-327364","DOIUrl":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-327364","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>IgA vasculitis (IgAV) is the most frequently experienced subtype of vasculitis seen in children. Most children fully recover, however, complications including chronic kidney disease are recognised. The aim of this project was to use a best available evidence, group agreement, based approach to develop national recommendations for the initial management of IgAV and its associated complications.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A fully representative multiprofessional guideline development group (GDG), consisting of 28 members, was formed and met monthly. Graded recommendations were generated using nationally accredited methods, which included a predefined scope, open consultation, systematic literature review, evidence appraisal, review of national or international guidelines and a period of open consultation. Audit measures and research priorities were incorporated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The IgAV GDG met over a 14-month period. A total of 82 papers were relevant for evidence synthesis. For the initial management, four topic areas were identified with five key questions generating six graded recommendations related to classification, specialist referral and musculoskeletal involvement. For the associated complications, five topic areas with 12 key questions generated 15 graded recommendations covering nephritis, gastrointestinal and testicular involvement, atypical disease and follow-up. Open consultation feedback was incorporated. The guidelines were endorsed by the UK Kidney Association and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and are available online.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Despite IgAV being a rare disease with limited evidence, a national standardised approach to the clinical management for children and young people has been achieved. This should unite approaches to care and act as a foundation for improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142387488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel J Gentle, Avinash Singh, Colm P Travers, Arie Nakhmani, Waldemar A Carlo, Namasivayam Ambalavanan
{"title":"Achieved oxygen saturations and risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia with pulmonary hypertension in preterm infants.","authors":"Samuel J Gentle, Avinash Singh, Colm P Travers, Arie Nakhmani, Waldemar A Carlo, Namasivayam Ambalavanan","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-327014","DOIUrl":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-327014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Characterisation of oxygen saturation (SpO<sub>2</sub>)-related predictors that correspond with both bronchopulmonary dysplasia-associated pulmonary hypertension (BPD-PH) development and survival status in infants with BPD-PH may improve patient outcomes. This investigation assessed whether (1) infants with BPD-PH compared with infants with BPD alone, and (2) BPD-PH non-survivors compared with BPD-PH survivors would (a) achieve lower SpO<sub>2</sub> distributions, (b) have a higher fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO<sub>2</sub>) exposure and (c) have a higher oxygen saturation index (OSI).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Case-control study between infants with BPD-PH (cases) and BPD alone (controls) and by survival status within cases.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Single-centre study in the USA.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Infants born at <29 weeks' gestation and on respiratory support at 36 weeks' postmenstrual age.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>FiO<sub>2</sub> exposure, SpO<sub>2</sub> distributions and OSI were analysed over the week preceding BPD-PH diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>BPD-PH, BPD alone and survival status in infants with BPD-PH.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>40 infants with BPD-PH were compared with 40 infants with BPD alone. Infants who developed BPD-PH achieved lower SpO<sub>2</sub> compared with infants with BPD (p<0.001), were exposed to a higher FiO<sub>2</sub> (0.50 vs 0.34; p=0.02) and had a higher OSI (4.3 vs 2.6; p=0.03). Compared with survivors, infants with BPD-PH who died achieved a lower SpO<sub>2</sub> (p<0.001) and were exposed to a higher FiO<sub>2</sub> (0.70 vs 0.42; p=0.049).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SpO<sub>2</sub>-related predictors differed between infants with BPD-PH and BPD alone and among infants with BPD-PH by survival status. The OSI may provide a non-invasive predictor for BPD-PH in preterm infants.</p>","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":" ","pages":"941-947"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11503043/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141465744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Saxton, Katalin Toth, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Hannah Wilkinson, Jemma White, Sarah Golden, Tamsin Ford
{"title":"One-to-one counselling and school attendance in the UK: a single group pre-post study.","authors":"Jennifer Saxton, Katalin Toth, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Hannah Wilkinson, Jemma White, Sarah Golden, Tamsin Ford","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326458","DOIUrl":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326458","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Absence rates remain high in UK schools, with negative implications for attainment, life chances and inequality. Reasons for non-attendance are complex but include psychosocial factors. Few UK-based studies have evaluated psychosocial interventions for school attendance outcomes or its moderators. This pre-post evaluation examined the potential influence of school-based one-to-one counselling on school attendance and possible moderators.</p><p><strong>Design and setting: </strong>Secondary analysis of routine data, collected by a national mental health provider in primary and secondary schools.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>7405 pupils aged 4-19 years, with complete school attendance records at Time1 (pre-counselling term) and Time2 (the term when counselling ended).</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>All participants received school-based one-to-one counselling with a trained counsellor between August 2016 and December 2019.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>Percentage of school sessions attended (continuous) and persistent absence (binary; attending ≤90% of sessions) in a term. Potential moderators included sociodemographics, mental health and school engagement/enjoyment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Median Time1 attendance was 96%. 23.6% of participants were persistently absent. The intervention was not associated with improved percentage attendance (0.028%, 95% CI -0.160-0.216%) but was associated with 18.5% reduced odds of persistent absence (OR=0.815, 95% CI 0.729-0.911). We identified five moderators of change in attendance (interaction terms p<0.05): age group (improvements for 4-9 s; worsening for 15-19 s), improvement for some ethnicities and lower parent/carer education. Mental health and school engagement/enjoyment co-varied with attendance in expected directions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>One-to-one counselling may improve school attendance among persistently absent pupils, particularly at younger ages. Improving mental health and pupil engagement/enjoyment are potential intervention targets. Our hypotheses require confirmation with controlled designs.</p>","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":" ","pages":"905-912"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11503188/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141791763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual therapy with paracetamol and ibuprofen for fever: a network meta-analysis.","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2024-328090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2024-328090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":"109 11","pages":"923"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenotypic expression, genotypic profiling and clinical outcomes of infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective study.","authors":"Hisham Ahamed, Shruti Varghese, Georg Gutajahr, Balu Vaidyanathan, Mahesh Kappanayil, Navaneetha Sasikumar, Shine Kumar, Aparna Hari, Malavika Krishnakumar, Raman Krishna Kumar","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326094","DOIUrl":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous disorder. Apart from registries in high-income nations, there is a shortage of data on the aetiological basis of infantile HCM in low- and middle-income nations. This study attempts to characterise the phenotypic expression, genetic architecture and short-term clinical outcomes of infantile HCM from a South Asian tertiary referral centre.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study includes all infants from the Amrita HCM cohort between January 2011 and July 2021. Clinical history, ECG, echocardiographic data, and genetic analyses were evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>34 patients with infantile HCM were diagnosed at a median age of 3.7 months (IQR 1-6 months). Underlying aetiologies were RASopathy (n=13; 38%), non-syndromic (n=12; 35%) and inborn errors of metabolism (n=9; 27%). Genetic analysis was done in 20 patients (59%) with a yield of 90%. Clinical presentation included failure to thrive (n=29; 85%), dyspnoea on exertion (n=23; 68%) and clinical heart failure (n=24; 71%). Echo showed concentric left ventricular hypertrophy in 22 patients (65%), obstructive HCM in 11 patients (32%) and left ventricular systolic dysfunction in 6 patients (18%). The mortality rate was 10.0 deaths per 100 patient years over a median follow-up period of 3.1 years. The main risk markers for mortality were the age at diagnosis, gender and concentric Left ventricular hypertrophy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This cohort demonstrates the morphological, functional and genetical heterogeneity of infantile HCM, enunciating the need for integration of cardiology, metabolic and genetic services to achieve optimum outcomes in these patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":" ","pages":"913-917"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141578848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cystic fibrosis transition from paediatric to adult care: international survey results.","authors":"Daniel Office, Susan Madge","doi":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326447","DOIUrl":"10.1136/archdischild-2023-326447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8150,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Disease in Childhood","volume":" ","pages":"960-961"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141995126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}