The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages A4-A7, January 2008

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Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc 

Building a Pediatric Clinical Research Division 1

Tracie L. Miller, MD, and Steven E. Lipshultz, MD, Miami, Florida

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Editorials 

How Far Can Prenatal Screening Go in Preventing Birth Defects? 3

David A. Savitz, PhD, New York, New York

The Role of the Kidney in Protecting the Brain against Cerebral Edema and Neuronal Cell Swelling 4

Russell W. Chesney, MD, Memphis, Tennessee

Pain Still Lords Over Children 6

Justin N. Baker, MD, Doralina L. Anghelescu, MD, and Javier R. Kane, MD, Memphis, Tennessee

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Commentary 

Research Involving Wards of the State: Protecting Particularly Vulnerable Children 9

Sumeeta Varma, BS, and David Wendler, PhD, Bethesda, Maryland

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Original Articles 

Prevalence, Neonatal Characteristics, and First-Year Mortality of Down Syndrome: A National Study 15

Michel E. Weijerman, ME, MD, A. Marceline van Furth, PhD, Antonie Vonk Noordegraaf, Jacobus P. van Wouwe, PhD, Chantal J. M. Broers, MD, and Reinoud J. B. J. Gemke, PhD, Amsterdam and Leiden, The Netherlands

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—Speech Problems in Children 19

Rosemary Shy, MD, and Alexander Gow, PhD, Detroit, Michigan

Is Down Syndrome a Disappearing Birth Defect? 20

Veronica R. Collins, PhD, Evelyne E. Muggli, MPH, Merilyn Riley, B App Sci (HIM), Grad Dip (Epi & Biostats), Sonia Palma, B App Sci (HIM), and Jane L. Halliday, PhD, Victoria, Australia

Time Trends in Birth Incidence of Cystic Fibrosis in Two European Areas: Data from Newborn Screening Programs 25

Virginie Scotet, PhD, Baroukh M. Assael, MD, Ingrid Duguépéroux, PhD, Anna Tamanini, PhD, Marie-Pierre Audrézet, PhD, Claude Férec, MD, PhD, and Carlo Castellani, MD, Brest, France, and Verona, Italy

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—The Antibody (Hemagglutinin) Response as a Tool for Etiologic Diagnosis of Diarrheal Disease. Family Outbreak Associated with Paracolobactrum (Escherichia coli O75) 32

Philip M. Sherman, MD, FRCPC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Incidence of Postoperative Hyponatremia and Complications in Critically-Ill Children Treated with Hypotonic and Normotonic Solutions 33

Alicia K. Au, MD, Patricio E. Ray, MD, Kevin D. McBryde, MD, Kurt D. Newman, MD, Steven L. Weinstein, MD, and Michael J. Bell, MD, Washington, DC

Opioid Use in Palliative Care of Children and Young People with Cancer 39

Martin Hewitt, BSc, BM, MD, FRCP(UK), FRCPCH, Ann Goldman, MBBS, FRCP(UK), FRCPCH, Gary S. Collins, BSc, PhD, Margaret Childs, and Richard Hain, MD, BS, MSc, MRCP(UK), FRCPCH, Dip Pal Med, Cardiff, Wales and Nottingham, London, and Leicester, United Kingdom

Human Body Shape Index Based on an Experimentally Derived Model of Human Growth 45

Maria K. Lebiedowska, PhD, Katharine E. Alter, MD, and Steven J. Stanhope, PhD, Bethesda, Maryland

Developmental Changes in Soluble CD40 Ligand 50

Jill M. Cholette, MD, Neil Blumberg, MD, Richard P. Phipps, PhD, Michael P. McDermott, PhD, Kelly F. Gettings, and Norma B. Lerner, MD, MPH, Rochester, New York

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—The Relation of Pectus Excavatum to Pectus Carinatum: Classification of Anterior Chest Wall Deformities and the Effect on Treatment 54

Michael H. Ratner, MD, Syracuse, New York

Therapeutic Hypothermia Changes the Prognostic Value of Clinical Evaluation of Neonatal Encephalopathy 55

Alistair J. Gunn, MBChB, PhD, John S. Wyatt, MBBS, MD, Andrew Whitelaw, MD, John Barks, MD, Denis Azzopardi, MD, Roberta Ballard, MD, A. David Edwards, FMedSci, Donna M. Ferriero, MD, Peter D. Gluckman, FRS, Richard A. Polin, MD, Charlene M. Robertson, MD, and Marianne Thoresen, MD, PhD, on behalf of the CoolCap Study Group, Auckland, New Zealand, London and Bristol, United Kingdom, Ann Arbor, Michigan, San Francisco, California, New York, New York, and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Parenteral Nutrition-Associated Cholestasis in Small for Gestational Age Infants 59

Daniel T. Robinson, MD, and Richard A. Ehrenkranz, MD, New Haven, Connecticut

Achieving Positive Protein Balance in the Immediate Postoperative Period in Neonates Undergoing Abdominal Surgery 63

Regina M. Reynolds, MD, Kathryn D. Bass, MD, and Patti J. Thureen, MD, Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois

The Impact of Maternal Negative Affectivity and General Self-Efficacy on Breastfeeding: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study 68

Eivind Ystrom, MSc, Susan Niegel, MSc, Knut-Inge Klepp, PhD, and Margarete E. Vollrath, PhD, Oslo, Norway

Ability of Blood Pressure to Predict Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Children with Primary Hypertension 73

Tammy M. Brady, MD, MHS, Barbara Fivush, MD, Joseph T. Flynn, MD, MS, and Rulan Parekh, MD, MS, Baltimore, Maryland, and Bronx, New York

Evidence of Infant Blood Pressure Programming by Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Intervention Study 79

Jonna Aaltonen, MB, Tiina Ojala, MD, PhD, Kirsi Laitinen, RD, PhD, Tarja Johanna Piirainen, RD, MSc, Tuija Annika Poussa, MSc, and Erika Isolauri, MD, PhD, Turku, Helsinki, and Tampere, Finland

Cardiac Conduction Disturbance Detected in a Pediatric Population 85

Shuenn-Nan Chiu, MD, Jou-Kou Wang, MD, PhD, Mei-Hwan Wu, MD, PhD, Chi-Wei Chang, MD, Chun-An Chen, MD, Ming-Tai Lin, MD, En-Ting Wu, MD, Yu Chuan Hua, BS, and Hung-Chi Lue, MD, PhD, as the Taipei Pediatric Cardiology Working Group, Taipei, Taiwan

A New Scoring System for Computed Tomography of the Chest for Assessing the Clinical Status of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia 90

Masayuki Ochiai, MD, Shunji Hikino, MD, PhD, Hidetake Yabuuchi, MD, PhD, Hideki Nakayama, MD, PhD, Kazuo Sato, MD, PhD, Shouichi Ohga, MD, PhD, and Toshiro Hara, MD, PhD, Fukuoka, Japan

Effect of Levo-Thyroxine Treatment on Weight and Body Mass Index in Children with Acquired Hypothyroidism 96

Jefferson P. Lomenick, MD, Maysa El-Sayyid, BS, and W. Jackson Smith, MD, Lexington, Kentucky

Folate Pathway Genetic Polymorphisms are Related to Attention Disorders in Childhood Leukemia Survivors 101

Kevin R. Krull, PhD, Pim Brouwers, PhD, Neelam Jain, PhD, Linna Zhang, MD, Lisa Bomgaars, MD, ZoAnn Dreyer, MD, Donald Mahoney, MD, Sarah Bottomley, MN, CPNP, and M. Fatih Okcu, MD, MPH, Houston, Texas, and Rockville, Maryland

Etiology and Outcome of Acute Pancreatitis in Infants and Toddlers 106

Leena Kandula, MD, and Mark E. Lowe, MD, PhD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Physical Training in Children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta 111

Marco Van Brussel, MSc, Tim Takken, MSc, PhD, Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal, MD, PhD, Hans J. Pruijs, MD, PhD, Janjaap Van Der Net, PT, PhD, Paul J.M. Helders, PT, MSc, PhD, and Raoul H.H. Engelbert, PT, PhD, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Temper Tantrums in Healthy Versus Depressed and Disruptive Preschoolers: Defining Tantrum Behaviors Associated with Clinical Problems 117

Andy C. Belden, PhD, Nicole Renick Thomson, PhD, and Joan L. Luby, MD, St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri

Bullying and School Safety 123

Gwen M. Glew, MD, MPH, Ming-Yu Fan, PhD, Wayne Katon, MD, and Frederick P. Rivara, MD, Seattle, Washington

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Grand Rounds 

Newborn Girl with Massive Hepatomegaly, Anemia, and Thrombocytopenia 129

Sherry M. Thompson, MD, Rita Dadiz, DO, Karen Young, MD, Uygar Teomete, MD, Stuart Toledano, MD, and Maria M. Rodriguez, MD, Miami, Florida

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Clinical and Laboratory Observations 

A Case of Recurrent Sterile Abscesses following Vaccination: Delayed Hypersensitivity to Aluminum 133

Heather K. Lehman, MD, Howard S. Faden, MD, Yisheng V. Fang, MD, PhD, and Mark Ballow, MD, Buffalo, New York

Natural History of Recessive Inheritance of DMT1 Mutations 136

A. Iolascon, MD, C. Camaschella, MD, D. Pospisilova, MD, C. Piscopo, MD, G. Tchernia, MD, and C. Beaumont, MD, Naples and Milan, Italy, Olomouc, Czech Republic, and Le Kremlin-Bicêtre and Paris, France

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Insights 

Down the Primrose Path: Petechiae in a Neonate Exposed to Herbal Remedy for Parturition 140

Kathy E. Wedig, MD, and Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio

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Current Best Evidence 

Clinical Research Abstracts for Pediatricians 141

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Letters to the Editor 

DKA-Related Cerebral Edema and Intravenous Fluid Therapy: Potential Pitfalls of Uncontrolled Retrospective Studies 145

Nicole Glaser, MD, and Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH, Sacramento, California

Cerebral Edema in Diabetic Ketoacidosis with Serum Sodium <135 mEq/L 145

Akatoli Sema, DCH, and Jacob M. Puliyel, MD, MRCP, MPhil, Delhi, India

Treatment of Diabetic Ketoacidosis and the Risk of Cerebral Edema 146

Arlan L. Rosenbloom, MD, Gainesville, Florida

Reply 147

Ewout Jasper Hoorn, MD, Ana P.C.P. Carlotti, MD, Mitchell L. Halperin, MD, and Desmond Bohn, MD, Toronto, Canada

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Reader Services 

Information for Readers A9

Announcements A10

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Guide for Authors

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PII: S0022-3476(07)01089-X

doi:10.1016/S0022-3476(07)01089-X

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 152, Issue 1 , Pages A4-A7, January 2008