Acta Paediatrica

Articles published in Acta Paediatrica regularly receive wide media attention. Enjoy these recent articles which have been covered by the worldwide press FREE online:

Babies who eat fish before nine months are less likely to suffer pre-school wheeze
Emma Goksor, Bent Alm, Hrefna Thengilsdottir, et al.

Organ donation from children: time for legal, ethical and cultural change
Joe Brierley, Vic Larcher

Lack of physical activity in young children is related to higher composite risk factor score for cardiovascular disease
Tina Tanha, Per Wollmer, Ola Thorsson, et al.

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March 2012: Children with psychosomatic pain may have an increased risk of developing fibromyalgia. In 47 children, 6-17 years old, with psychosomatic recurrent abdominal pain, all had a pattern of stress-related tender points and a high score for fibromyalgia tender points. Eight satisfied the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia. Signs of stress, more locations in which pain was felt and longer duration of pain were correlated with an increased sensitivity to fibromyalgia. Read full article here.

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