The usefulness of renal replacement therapy (RRT) has been questioned in children post-HSCT.
Question: In children with cerebral palsy, does a 6-month physical activity stimulation program improve physical activity, mobility capacity, fitness, fatigue and attitude towards sports more than usual paediatric physiotherapy?
The developing brain is known to be more sensitive to thyroxin deprivation than the adult brain, hence this remains an open question in children.
Furthermore, few studies have addressed this question in children, and only 1 study has compared mortality risks with those of adults [ 15].
If the assessor believed that a study of adults was not relevant to the target question in children, then a very wide interval would be indicated; the assessor would effectively give zero weight to adult studies in the pooled estimate.
In a more recent examination of this question in children, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY; a 15-year cohort reported in 2006), excess body weight was inversely related to childhood SES (using mother's education as a proxy) and this disparity increased with age.
Although previous research provides some evidence for asthma onset that suggests such interactions might fit a "double jeopardy" hypothesis, so few previous data address this question in children with asthma that our present study aimed to describe the nature of any interaction patterns, rather than testing specific a priori hypotheses.
In a pilot study, importance ratings were gathered from adults for the questions used in children's memory interview in order to define central and non-central questions.
What did they do wrong?Paul Tough, a journalist and former editor at the New York Times Magazine, aims to answer these thorny questions in "How Children Succeed", an ambitious and elegantly written new book, now out in Britain.
However, the validity of using prescription data for the identification of children with atopic diseases in epidemiological research has been questioned, especially in children [ 2– 8].
