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Management of acute coronary syndromes during the COVID-19 outbreak in Lombar…
During the COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare Authorities of Lombardy modified the regional network concerning time-dependent emergencies. Specifically, 13 Macro-Hubs were identified to deliver timely optimal care to patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Aim of this paper is to present the results of this experience
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A Guide to Your Child’s Hearing
Your child’s quality of life and development vitally depends on hearing. Hearing helps your child learn to read, to appreciate music, and to receive warnings of approaching harm. Your child will have diffi culty coping with many of life’s challenges and opportunities without good hearing
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Pediatric Audiology: A Review
The prevalence of congenital deafness in the United States is estimated to be approximately 1:1,000 or 0.1%. Approximately 3:1,000 well babies have hearing loss of varying degrees. Approximately 6:1,000 combined well and at-risk babies have some degree of hearing loss (HL).
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Pediatric Audiology
It is our contention that audiology is the foundation of the auditory-based management of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH). In addition, we proceed under the framework that the “sky is the limit” for these individuals—as infants, toddlers, and children with hearing loss have the potential to do and be anything on which they set their sights.
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Down Syndrome: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives
Down syndrome (DS) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. It is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. Although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after John Langdon Down who described …
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Epileptic spasms in individuals with Down syndrome: A review of the current l…
Epilepsy can occur in individuals with Down syndrome (DS), with epileptic spasms representing the most frequent seizure type in this population. Epileptic spasms can have devastating consequences on the development of individuals with the condition. This review sought to explore the lifetime prevalence and underlying mechanism of epileptic spasms in this population. We also aimed to review the…
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Family Sense-Making After a Down Syndrome Diagnosis
The script of parenting shifts when parents learn of their child’s Down syndrome diagnosis. To build a theory of the diagnostic experience and early family sense-making process, we interviewed 33 parents and nine grandparents living in the United States who learned prenatally or neonatally of their child’s diagnosis. The core category of rescuing hope for the future encompassed the social p…
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The effects of age at menarche and first sexual intercourse on reproductive a…
There is substantial variation in the timing of significant reproductive life events such as menarche and first sexual intercourse. Life history theory explains this variation as an adaptive response to an individual’s environment and it is important to examine how traits within life history strategies affect each other. Here we applied Mendelian randomization (MR) methods to investigate whet…
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Early Sexual Intercourse: Prospective Associations with Adolescents Physical …
To assess the prospective associations of physical activity behaviors and screen time with early sexual intercourse initiation (i.e., before 15 years) in a large sample of adolescents
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Impact of first sexual intercourse on the sexual and reproductive life of you…
This study aimed to analyze the repercussion of first sexual intercourse on the number of pregnancies and partners of teenagers with obstetric history in Teresina (PI), Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study with 464 young women selected by accidental sampling who gave birth at 15-19 years of age in the first four months of 2006 in six maternity hospitals of the municipality
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