Faniran and colleagues concluded in their community based study of 1178 children that "cough variant asthma is probably a misnomer for most children in the community who have persistent cough" [ 118].
This is a population based study of 212 children with CP followed until 9 16 years of age.
Data stem from the second wave of the BCS, an ongoing, longitudinal population based study of Norwegian children born in the years 1993 1995 (http://www.uib.no/bib).uib.no/bib
In a population based study of 700 children, Breslau et al. found attention problems to be the chief predictor of diminished academic achievement relative to expectations on the basis of a child's cognitive ability.
This motivated the present study to further explore the protective effect of normal to high IQ (>85) in a case-control selected sample from a population based study of primary school children aged 7-11 years, including a subsample of children with CI.
A population based study of Finnish school children did find a higher risk of TTH for those children whose fathers were lower level white collar workers as opposed to independent traders/employees, but found no association between episodic TTH and family unemployment, economic problems and single parent families [7].
We tested these hypotheses in a population-based study of children who had participated in the southern California Children's Health Study (CHS).
We examined the associations between birth weight, LBW, and IUGR in term newborns and air pollution data in participants of the Children's Health Study (CHS), a population-based study of children residing in 12 southern California communities.
The Sydney Pediatric Diabetes Study is a prospective, clinic-based study of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, aged 12 20 years at baseline, who attended the Diabetes Complications Assessment Service at the Children's Hospital at Westmead during a 12-year period from 1990 to 2002.
DNA samples (n = 109) were also available for analysis from a population-based study of children with DS in Manchester, U.K. (14).
The BCS is a longitudinal total population-based study of children in all public and private schools in the city of Bergen, Norway.
