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Outcomes of Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cell Transplantation for Patients in Persistent Vegetative State After Drowning: Report of Five Cases (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Outcomes of Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cell Transplantation for Patients in Persistent Vegetative State After Drowning: Report of Five Cases. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 564. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2020.00564

Aim: Anoxic brain injury (ABI) due to non-fatal drowning may cause persistent vegetative state (VS) that is currently incurable. The aim of this paper is to present the safety and feasibility of autologous bone marrow-derived mononuclear cell (BMMNC)... Read More about Outcomes of Bone Marrow-Derived Mononuclear Cell Transplantation for Patients in Persistent Vegetative State After Drowning: Report of Five Cases.

Why are children with asthma bullied? A quantitative analysis of bullying risk factors in the Room to Breathe cohort (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Gilchrist. (2020, September). Why are children with asthma bullied? A quantitative analysis of bullying risk factors in the Room to Breathe cohort. Presented at ERS International Congress 2020

Background: Bullying and asthma are common challenges faced by children worldwide. It has been shown that children with chronic health conditions are at higher risk of being bullied, but this has not been explored in detail in asthma. Aims and Object... Read More about Why are children with asthma bullied? A quantitative analysis of bullying risk factors in the Room to Breathe cohort.

Can risk prediction models help us individualise stillbirth prevention? A systematic review and critical appraisal of published risk models. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Can risk prediction models help us individualise stillbirth prevention? A systematic review and critical appraisal of published risk models. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.16487

BACKGROUND: Stillbirth prevention is an international priority - risk prediction models could individualise care and reduce unnecessary intervention, but their use requires evaluation. OBJECTIVES: To identify risk prediction models for stillbirth, an... Read More about Can risk prediction models help us individualise stillbirth prevention? A systematic review and critical appraisal of published risk models..

Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners (2020)
Journal Article
Erisman, J. C., De Sabbata, K., Zuiderent-Jerak, T., & Syurina, E. V. (2020). Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01226-6

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>Dutch child and youth health care (CYHC) practitioners monitor and assess the well-being of children. One of their main concerns is identifying cases of child abu... Read More about Navigating complexity of child abuse through intuition and evidence-based guidelines: a mix-methods study among child and youth healthcare practitioners.

Temporal Trends in Pregnancy‐Associated Stroke and Its Outcomes Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (2020)
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Wu, P., Jordan, K. P., Chew‐Graham, C. A., Coutinho, T., Lundberg, G. P., Park, K. E., …Mamas, M. A. (2020). Temporal Trends in Pregnancy‐Associated Stroke and Its Outcomes Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Journal of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 9(15), https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.016182

Background
Stroke is a serious complication of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), with potentially severe and long-term sequelae. However, the temporal trends, predictors and outcomes of stroke in women with HDP at delivery remain unknown.... Read More about Temporal Trends in Pregnancy‐Associated Stroke and Its Outcomes Among Women With Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.

Use of home-based records for children in the countries of the WHO European Region (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Use of home-based records for children in the countries of the WHO European Region

A home-based record (HBR) system has long been promoted by WHO as an effective tool for child health. The record contents, design and operation are unique to each individual country. This report compares the contents and processes for HBR use in all... Read More about Use of home-based records for children in the countries of the WHO European Region.

Does Being Born Deaf Affect How We See? (2020)
Journal Article
Monroy, C., Freeman, J., & Houston, D. (2020). Does Being Born Deaf Affect How We See?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00082

Have you ever heard someone say that if you are born deaf, you have better vision to make up for it? People often think so, but is that actually true? We know that what babies hear, see, and touch determines how their brains develop. When you are gro... Read More about Does Being Born Deaf Affect How We See?.

Sleep problems increase the risk of musculoskeletal pain in boys but not girls: a prospective cohort study (2020)
Journal Article
Andreucci, A., Campbell, P., Mundy, L. K., Sawyer, S. M., Kosola, S., Patton, G. C., & Dunn, K. M. (2020). Sleep problems increase the risk of musculoskeletal pain in boys but not girls: a prospective cohort study. European Journal of Pediatrics, 179(11), 1711–1719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-020-03667-8

Adults with sleep problems are at higher risk for onset of musculoskeletal pain, but the evidence is less clear for children. This prospective cohort study investigated whether children with sleep problems are at higher risk for onset of musculoskele... Read More about Sleep problems increase the risk of musculoskeletal pain in boys but not girls: a prospective cohort study.

Factors Influencing Family Burden of Paediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Cross-sectional Study (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, X., Van Galen, L. S., Bajpai, R., Koh, M. J., Thng, S., Yew, Y. W., …Car, J. (2020). Factors Influencing Family Burden of Paediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Cross-sectional Study. Acta dermato-venereologica, 100(14), Article ARTN adv00212. https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-3458

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, recurrent inflammatory skin condition that affects about 10–20% of children and 2-15% of adults in developed countries (1). In Singapore, the prevalence among children and adolescents is 20.8% (2). Itchiness, the... Read More about Factors Influencing Family Burden of Paediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: A Cross-sectional Study.

Potentially over 3 million children in EU Europe believed not to be receiving needed medical and dental treatment-and parents' reasons why. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Potentially over 3 million children in EU Europe believed not to be receiving needed medical and dental treatment-and parents' reasons why. Child: Care, Health and Development, https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12757

BACKGROUND: Children have the right to health and countries a duty under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to facilitate this. The European Union has emphasized the importance of investing in children, but at times this seems m... Read More about Potentially over 3 million children in EU Europe believed not to be receiving needed medical and dental treatment-and parents' reasons why..

Developing a core outcome set for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis. (2020)
Journal Article
Gilchrist. (2020). Developing a core outcome set for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis. ERJ Open Research, https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00344-2019

Background: Protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) is a chronic endobrochial infection and a leading cause of chronic wet cough in children. There is an urgent need for a randomised controlled trial to investigate the optimal treatment but there is no... Read More about Developing a core outcome set for children with protracted bacterial bronchitis..

The relationship between independent and dependent life events and depression symptoms in Sri Lanka: a twin and singleton study (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The relationship between independent and dependent life events and depression symptoms in Sri Lanka: a twin and singleton study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 237-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01765-z

Purpose
Life events have been associated with a variety of mental health conditions including depression. There is a scarcity of research in South Asia exploring the aetiology of independent and dependent life events and their relationship with depr... Read More about The relationship between independent and dependent life events and depression symptoms in Sri Lanka: a twin and singleton study.

If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying? (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying?. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 494 - 498. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-318215

Outcomes for children with asthma in the UK continue to lag behind other European countries. Mortality remains unacceptably high and in contrast to adults with asthma, most deaths occur in the 1 in 20 children with asthma who have severe asthma. Desp... Read More about If it's 'only' asthma, why are children still dying?.

The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 800-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2019.35

The COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) project is a large international collaborative effort to analyze individual-level phenotype data from twins in multiple cohorts from different environments. Th... Read More about The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins.

Anxiety in children and adolescents (2019)
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Poppleton, A., Ramkission, R., & Ali, S. (2019). Anxiety in children and adolescents. InnovAiT, 635 -642. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755738019869182

Anxiety is the physiological state of fear, unease or apprehension experienced by an individual in the face of an uncertain outcome. Anxiety disorders are characterised by recurrent symptoms of anxiety disproportionate to the eliciting situation, and... Read More about Anxiety in children and adolescents.

Less sun, more cough: Annual hours of sunshine are inversely associated with hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infection (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gilchrist. (2019, September). Less sun, more cough: Annual hours of sunshine are inversely associated with hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infection. Presented at ERS International Congress 2019, IFEMA, Madrid

Background: Vitamin D deficiency affects immune function increasing susceptibility to respiratory tract infections (RTI). Randomised controlled trials show vitamin D supplementation protects against acute RTIs. Most vitamin D (>90%) is acquired from... Read More about Less sun, more cough: Annual hours of sunshine are inversely associated with hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infection.

Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Wu. (2019). Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 394(10204), 1181 - 1190. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2819%2931963-4

BACKGROUND: In women with late preterm pre-eclampsia, the optimal time to initiate delivery is unclear because limitation of maternal disease progression needs to be balanced against infant complications. The aim of this trial was to determine whethe... Read More about Planned early delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia (PHOENIX): a randomised controlled trial.

Pregnancy As a Predictor of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: The Era of CardioObstetrics (2019)
Journal Article
Mamas, & Wu. (2019). Pregnancy As a Predictor of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: The Era of CardioObstetrics. Journal of Women's Health, 1037 - 1050. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2018.7480

Globally, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of mortality in women accounting for one in three deaths. There remains an under recognition of CVD as well as a lack of awareness of risk in women. Promotion of CVD prevention is essent... Read More about Pregnancy As a Predictor of Maternal Cardiovascular Disease: The Era of CardioObstetrics.