early clinical characteristics of children with autism

... than children with mild to moderate autism, P < 0.001 Also, the frequency of increased serum neurokinin A levels was significantly higher in children with severe autism (77.5%) than patients with ... antibodies in children with autism 26 Table Serum levels of neurokinin A in autistic children and their relation to the severity of autism Neurokinin A (pg/ml) Z Median (IQR) (P-value) Healthy children ... (40/70) of autistic patients Patients with severe autism had significantly higher serum neurokinin A levels than children with mild to moderate autism, P < 0.001 (table 1) Also, the frequency of increased...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... subset of ASD children and may be associated with their worsening behavioral symptoms/cognitive skills with immune insults Development of SPAD in these ASD children may also be a part of their clinical ... These ASD/non-SPAD children were diagnosed with autism (N=25) or PDD-NOS (N=14) Twenty out of 39 children reported to have developmental regression at the time of initial diagnosis of ASD Allergic ... at the time of blood sampling, none of them had active GI symptoms ASD/SPAD children also had history of FPIES at a similar rate (5/8, 62.5%) and these ASD/SPAD children with history of FPIES suffered...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... term clinical outcome and late toxicity in relation to dosimetric improvements in sparing of the organs at risk Page of Table 1: Summary of patients characteristics at treatment start Number of ... summarises the technical features of the treatment characteristics Table and Table report results of the DVH analysis Table records the clinical outcome of the treatments as early acute reactions and ... introduced in clinical practice of our institute since September 2008 for a variety of indications The present study reports about the early findings from the treatment of a group of 45 patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... compared to 22 percent of children with public insurance, 19 percent of children with both public and private insurance, and 11 percent of privately-insured children Percent of CSHCN with at Least One ... families of only 6.2 percent of children in poverty paid more than $1,000 out of pocket for their children s care, compared to the families of 29 percent of CSHCN with incomes of 400 percent of poverty ... Status of CSHCN The population of CSHCN includes children with a wide range of conditions with varying levels of impact and requiring a variety of services This section describes the types of special...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... under-nutrition4 with a prevalence of wasting of 11%.5 Stunting was reported in 44% of Ghanaian children and adolescents and almost all those with SS were underweight, irrespective of height.6 Although ... girls with delay in the age at thelarche and menarche Menarche had not occurred by 14–18 years in 71% of these cases compared with 10% of controls.51 In a study from Gabon, 27% of 131 children with ... programmes with the introduction of neonatal screening, the identification of children with SCD at birth and early interventions using essential health packages Growth monitoring with appropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... for children with developmental disabilities not lend themselves easily to this type of study Because of the variability of individual characteristics in children with disabilities, it is often ... However, within each of these diagnostic groups, an enormous number of individual differences exist Some children with autism learn to talk, while others must be trained to use non-verbal forms of ... and frequencies of sound, light, magnetism, or other types of rays from the electromagnetic spectrum Parents and professionals who consider the use of CAMs for children with autism, attention...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 07:20

... them – nearly three children per family The ages of children with disabilities ranged from to 18 years with a mean of years; and sibling’s ages varied from birth to 30 years with a mean of 13 for ... lives of siblings and on the family Clearly, the experience of disabled children should be positively reinforced by encounters with others, but this is not the experience of disabled children or of ... that exclusion of children with disabilities is not a concept of which the Social Exclusion Unit has much understanding This lack of recognition impacts on families with disabled children because...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 18:20

... mothers of children with CHD also reported higher levels of uncertainty Linde (1982) reported that the mothers of children with CHD had problems not with the severity of disease but with uncertainty ... in Mothers of Children with CHD and anxiety of children with CHD were related more to maternal anxiety and pampering than to the degree of incapacity or severity of disease (Linde, Rasof, Dunn, ... stress in mothers of children with CHD, and (c) determine the factors affecting parenting stress in mothers of children with CHD in Korea METHODS Subjects Mothers of children with CHD were recruited...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... management of infants and children with renal disease within Yorkhill Division Specifically these guidelines detail nutritional requirements in: • • • • Chronic Renal Failure in infants and children ... infants with chronic renal failure However, problems occur in determining the actual amount of feed and therefore fluid consumed Expressed breast milk can be fortified with energy and may be mixed with ... cow’s milk around the age of year, it is usually best to continue with the infant formula, modifying it to take account of growth and changes in plasma biochemistry 2.2 Children and Adolescents...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... diagnostic method of TB was detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the sputum on 1353 (56.3%) of patients, diagnosis by means of clinical and radiological findings on 346 (14.4%) of patients, ... identified in 46 (1.91%) of the patients The prevalence of tuberculosis exposure was 25.8% (19.7% within the household, 6.1% outside home) The most common clinical form of the disease was the isolated ... regarding level of education, occupation and employment status characterize the social situation of the population of patients in our study, since most of them (74.7%) had a low level of education,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Grandparents often will raise their grandchildren unofficially and without formal rights out of fear of disrupting the family, losing custody of the children, or implying poor parenting on the part of ... regardless of the presence of children at the time of arrest In cases where a child is present at the time of arrest, only 42 percent of officers inquire about that child’s care; nearly one third will ... this population One of the greatest needs within the policy community lies in obtaining better records of the number of children with incarcerated parents Information about these children, their...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... parents of children with and without sickle cell disease In addition, we also compared parents of children with sickle cell disease to parents of children without sickle cell disease and without ... Quality of life among parents of children with congenital heart disease, parents of children with other diseases and parents of healthy children Qual Life Res 2003, 12:655-666 Page 10 of 11 (page ... disease at both clinics as part of a larger study of the HRQL of children [13,25] There were 145 parents of children with sickle cell disease approached for the study Of those, 133 agreed to participate...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... that lower levels of anxiety are associated with increased use of venting and self-distraction of diabetes related emotional distress This finding is in conflict with that of other studies, in ... one of the most salient findings of this cross-sectional study They also underscore the importance of modeling support as multidimensional, and of evaluating the role of support in the context of ... styles of adolescents with type diabetes are associated with degree of metabolic control Diabetes Care 2004, 27:1313-1317 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Results of this study support the premise that parents of the children with minor illness experienced a better HRQOL than those of the children with heart disease Parents of the children with heart ... problems of parents of the children with heart disease in different areas of the QOL It indicated that parents of the children with heart disease had significantly poorer QOL than parents of the children ... rated among the most severe of chronic disabilities among children Parents of the children with heart disease may experience higher stress levels than parents of children with other diseases, and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Well-being with Acceptance of Insulin Administration Ease of Insulin Use with Treatment Satisfaction Ease of Insulin Use with Acceptance of Insulin Administration Treatment Satisfaction with Acceptance ... for mothers of children with type diabetes [9,10], is a generic questionnaire that was not developed for parents of children with diabetes It does not measure parents' satisfaction with diabetes ... been a dearth of studies to quantitatively assess either the well-being of parents of children with type diabetes or their satisfaction with their child's diabetes regimen The paucity of information...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... pattern of those with CFS is quite different to that of healthy controls but many of the differences observed may be a direct result of the relatively slow self-selected gait velocity of the individuals ... reflection of the relatively slow walking velocity of the individuals with CFS The range of ankle motion during the swing phase of gait was the only kinematic consistently lower for individuals with ... were low-pass filtered using a 4th order Butterworth filter with cut-off frequency of Hz, and interpolated with a maximum gap fill of frames using a 3rd order polynomial The body segments were...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... in the past and some of them were under monotherapy with drugs in low doses, without clinical sideeffects Inclusion criteria for patients and controls consisted of: a) age of 9-13 years old b) ... Components of attention in children with complex partial seizures with and without ADHD Epilepsia 1999, 40:211-215 McDermott S, Mani S, Krishnaswami S: A population-based analysis of specific ... potential long-lasting effects of epilepsy, it is important to detect and deal with symptoms as early as possible To address this issue, we consider the diagnosis of children who experienced very...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... (26/40) of autistic children On the other hand, there was a non significant difference between plasma progranulin levels of children with mild to moderate autism and patients with severe autism, ... subgroup of patients with autism Progranulin insufficiency in some patients with autism may result in many years of reduced neutrotrophic support together with cumulative damage in association with ... peripheral blood of Egyptian children with autism J Child Neurol 2010, 25:328-335 16 Mouridsen SE, Rich B, Isager T, Nedergaard NJ: Autoimmune diseases in parents of children with infantile autism: a...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... with advanced disease compared with women without a history of PMTCT But women without a history of PMTCT were nearly twice as likely to access ART with advanced disease compared with women with ... joint effect of sex and history of PMTCT was handled as a nominal categorical variable with levels equal to: (1) women with no history of PMTCT; (2) men; and (3) women with a history of PMTCT Analysis ... treatment for PMTCT (compared with women with no history of treatment for PMTCT) and older age were associated with decreased risk of advanced disease at the time of accessing ART (Table 1) ART...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Well-being with Acceptance of Insulin Administration Ease of Insulin Use with Treatment Satisfaction Ease of Insulin Use with Acceptance of Insulin Administration Treatment Satisfaction with Acceptance ... for mothers of children with type diabetes [9,10], is a generic questionnaire that was not developed for parents of children with diabetes It does not measure parents' satisfaction with diabetes ... been a dearth of studies to quantitatively assess either the well-being of parents of children with type diabetes or their satisfaction with their child's diabetes regimen The paucity of information...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20