Acta Paediatrica

Articles published in Acta Paediatrica regularly receive wide media attention. To read the latest press releases click here.

Read our latest article covered in the New York Times:

Language experienced in utero affects vowel perception after birth: a two-country study
Christine Moon, Hugo Lagercrantz, Patricia K Kuhl

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June 2013: Vitamin D deficiency at the Arctic Circle

As many as 82% of adolescents living in Norbotten County in Sweden, near the Arctic Circle, are vitamin D deficient in winter, even though vitamin D intake meets current national recommendations. Surprisingly, vitamin D deficiency is as common in controls as in food allergic adolescents eliminating vitamin D-containing foods (milk, egg and/or fish). The result suggests that the current national recommendations on vitamin D intake are insufficient, especially in the northern parts of Sweden.

See article by Karin Persson et al here, and commentary by Thomas H Casswall here.

Virtual issues are collections of articles on a particular subject, published in Acta Paediatrica. They are selected by the editor to provide a rapid overview of the activity in a particular aspect of paediatrics. The following virtual issues are now freely available:

• Selected articles on speech and language development published in Acta Paediatrica during 2011-2013
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• Selected articles from the Biennial Meeting of the International Perinatal Collegium XXII in Amalfi, Italy, June 25-29, 2011