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Trends in overweight and obesity in Bergen, Norway, using data from routine child healthcare 2010–2022

Trends in overweight and obesity in Bergen, Norway, using data from routine child healthcare 2010–2022

Balthasar et al analysed data collected on more than 78 000 children by child and school health centres during 2010–2022, to explore trends in child overweight and obesity in Bergen, Norway. They found that during the pre-pandemic period of 2010–2019, overweight and obesity plateaued in girls and decreased in boys. However, these weight issues then increased among prepubertal boys during the COVID-19 pandemic years of 2020–2022. 

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New study shows abdominal obesity and muscle weakness in 8-year-olds

The harmful combination of abdominal obesity and reduced muscle strength, also known as sarcopenic obesity, is already present in primary school children. This is shown by a new study among eight-year-olds, conducted at Karolinska Institutet.

Berzelius symposium 109: The mind from cradle to grave: Consciousness from fetal life to old age

We are pleased to introduce a Virtual Issue compiling all EBNEO Commentaries published in Acta Paediatrica

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Young investigator award 2023

by Hugo Lagercrantz

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CLINICAL OVERVIEW
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Tracheomalacia and surgical options: A case series perspective

Helene Holmark Møller, Marika Nathalie Schmidt, Inge B. R. Ifaoui, Hans G. H. Thyregod, Elisabeth S. Christiansen, Nagarajan Muthialu, Frederik F. Buchvald, Kim G. Nielsen, 
  •  8 October 2024
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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Resolution versus persistence of childhood idiopathic nephrotic syndrome—A population‐based study

Evgenia Gurevich, Odeyah Abeles, Daniel Landau, 
  •  7 October 2024
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Assessing the association between necrotizing enterocolitis and the type of initial central venous access in preterm infants

Assil Abda, Eugene Yoon, Jaideep Kanungo, Cecil Ojah, Anie Lapointe, Prakesh S. Shah, Marc Beltempo, Keith J. Barrington, the Canadian Neonatal Network Investigators, 
  •  7 October 2024
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Arvo Ylppö (1887–1992) made a leading contribution to Finland's achievements in child healthcare in the 20th century

Stefan Kutzsche, Allan G. A. Coombes, 
  •  7 October 2024
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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A retrospective evaluation of SwePEWS use in paediatric patients with COVID-19 and RSV infection

Julia Bodlund, Albin Wimmerdahl, Antoine Honoré, Karin Pukk Härenstam, David Forsberg, 
  •  7 October 2024
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A systematic review of hormone treatment for children with gender dysphoria and recommendations for research

Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Jan Adolfsson, Malin Höistad, Per-Anders Rydelius, Berit Kriström, Mikael Landén, 
  •  2279-2292
  •  17 April 2023

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A systematic review of hormone treatment for children with gender dysphoria and recommendations for research Issue 11, 2023

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Skin‐to‐skin contact the first hour after birth, underlying implications and clinical practice

Ann-Marie Widström, Kajsa Brimdyr, Kristin Svensson, Karin Cadwell, Eva Nissen, 
  •  1192-1204
  •  14 February 2019

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Skin-to-skin contact the first hour after birth, underlying implications and clinical practice Issue 7, 2019

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The impact of suppressing puberty on neuropsychological function: A review

Sallie Baxendale, 
  •  1156-1167
  •  9 February 2024
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Skin‐to‐skin contact after birth: Developing a research and practice guideline

Kajsa Brimdyr, Jeni Stevens, Kristin Svensson, Anna Blair, Cindy Turner-Maffei, Julie Grady, Louise Bastarache, Abla al Alfy, Jeannette T. Crenshaw, Elsa Regina Justo Giugliani, Uwe Ewald, Rukhsana Haider, Wibke Jonas, Mike Kagawa, Siri Lilliesköld, Ragnhild Maastrup, Ravae Sinclair, Emma Swift, Yuki Takahashi, Karin Cadwell, 
  •  1633-1643
  •  11 May 2023
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Painful and sometimes deadly experiments which Nazi doctors carried out on children

Paul Weindling, 
  •  1664-1669
  •  24 February 2022
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WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age

WHO MULTICENTRE GROWTH REFERENCE STUDY GROUP, Mercedes de Onis, 
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Systematic review of COVID‐19 in children shows milder cases and a better prognosis than adults

Jonas F. Ludvigsson, 

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Systematic review of COVID-19 in children shows milder cases and a better prognosis than adults Issue 6, 2020

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Understanding diagnostic tests 3: receiver operating characteristic curves

Anthony K Akobeng, 

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