Results from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD MTAa), a large community-based trial of children 7.0 to 9.9 years of age, indicated an overall lack of a moderating effect of sex on treatment response [ 12, 13].
Recently, the results of a universal, population based trial to prevent child maltreatment have been published by Prinz, Sanders, Shapiro, Whitaker, and Lutzker [ 24].
The housing, heating, and health study was a community based trial on the impact of improved heating on the health of children with asthma.
The overall reduction in incidence of diarrhea of 6% in this study is similar to, the only other large community based trial, conducted among Peruvian infants and young children [23].
Broad based trials are needed to compare the efficacy of fluid expansion of colloids and crystalloids in children.
Results from the trial of children should be known this summer.
Trials of children and adults are held in the same venues, which can distress children.
Children were included in four trials but only one trial comprised of children only.
A power calculation was performed for the trial in specialized care based on the percentage of children with an improvement of 0.5 points on the PAQLQ instrument score.
Guilleminault et al. [45] conducted a clinical trial of 31 children with a mean age of 6.5 years who had been diagnosed with OSAS based on clinical signs and symptoms and who had undergone a sleep study.
We excluded trials of sick children or children being treated for malnutrition.
