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• Notes from the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs, Inc
• Editorials
• Commentary
• Original Articles
• Clinical and Laboratory Observations
• Insights
• Letters to the Editor
• Corrections
• Reader Services

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

Anatomy of Mentoring 151

Stephen Ludwig, MD and Ruth E. K. Stein, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bronx, New York

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Editorials 

Technology and Pediatric Patient Safety: What to Target is the Dilemma 153

Fiona Howard Levy, MD, Dallas, Texas

Neurotoxicology: What Can Context Teach Us? 155

Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Boston, Massachusetts

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Commentary 

Finding Thresholds of Risk for Components of the Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome 158

Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH, Bethesda, Maryland

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Original Articles 

Defining the Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Will the Real Definition Please Stand Up? 160

Earl S. Ford, MD, MPH, and Chaoyang Li, MD, PhD, Atlanta, Georgia

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—Sickle Cell Disease with Salmonella Osteomyelitis 164

Russell E. Ware, MD, PhD, Memphis, Tennessee

Metabolic Syndrome Rates in United States Adolescents, from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2002 165

Stephen Cook, MD, Peggy Auinger, MS, Chaoyang Li, MD, PhD, and Earl S. Ford, MD, MPH, Rochester, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia

Examining Metabolic Syndrome Definitions in Overweight Hispanic Youth: A Focus on Insulin Resistance 171

Gabriel Q. Shaibi, PhD, PT, and Michael I. Goran, PhD, Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—Reflections on Infantile Gastroenteritis and Its Treatment 176

Thomas R. Welch, MD, Syracuse, New York

Comparison of Different Definitions of Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome: Relation to Abdominal Adiposity, Insulin Resistance, Adiponectin, and Inflammatory Biomarkers 177

SoJung Lee, PhD, Fida Bacha, MD, Neslihan Gungor, MD, and Silva Arslanian, MD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sensitivity, Specificity, and Predictive Values of Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome Components in Relation to Adult Metabolic Syndrome: The Princeton LRC Follow-up Study 185

Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH, Tonja R. Nansel, PhD, Allen R. Belsheim, MA, and John A. Morrison, PhD, Bethesda, Maryland, and Cincinnati, Ohio

Childhood Obesity Predicts Adult Metabolic Syndrome: The Fels Longitudinal Study 191

Shumei S. Sun, PhD, Ruohong Liang, MS, Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH, Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD, Silva Arslanian, MD, Kiang Liu, PhD, Gilman D. Grave, MD, and Roger M. Siervogel, PhD, Dayton, Ohio, Bethesda, Maryland, Denver, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago, Illinois

Metabolic Syndrome in Childhood Predicts Adult Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus 25 to 30 Years Later 201

John A. Morrison, PhD, Lisa Aronson Friedman, ScM, Ping Wang, PhD, and Charles J. Glueck, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Baltimore, Maryland

Waist-to-Height Ratio, a Useful Index to Identify High Metabolic Risk in Overweight Children 207

Claudio Maffeis, MD, Claudia Banzato, MD, and Giorgio Talamini, MD, on behalf of the Obesity Study Group of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, Verona, Italy

Electronic Prescribing Reduced Prescribing Errors in a Pediatric Renal Outpatient Clinic 214

Yogini Hariprasad Jani, MSc, Maisoon Abdullah Ghaleb, PhD, Stephen D. Marks, FRCPCH, Judith Cope, MSc, Nick Barber, PhD, and Ian Chi Kei Wong, PhD, London, United Kingdom

Computer-Assisted Bar-Coding System Significantly Reduces Clinical Laboratory Specimen Identification Errors in a Pediatric Oncology Hospital 219

Randall T. Hayden, MD, Donna J. Patterson, MHA, MT(ASCP)SLS, Dennis W. Jay, PhD, Carl Cross, EdD, Pamela Dotson, RN, MBA, Robert E. Possel, BA, Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD, Joseph Mirro, MD, and Jerry L. Shenep, MD, Memphis, Tennessee

Risk Factors in Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Pediatric Outpatients 225

Stephanie O. Zandieh, MD, MS, Donald A. Goldmann, MD, Carol A. Keohane, RN, BSN, Catherine Yoon, MS, David W. Bates, MD, MSc, and Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, New York, New York, Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts

50 Years Ago in The Journal of Pediatrics—Acne: A New Approach to an Old Problem 231

Bonita Stanton, MD, Detroit, Michigan

Incidence of Hypertriglyceridemia in Critically Ill Neonates Receiving Lipid Injectable Emulsions in Glass Versus Plastic Containers: A Retrospective Analysis 232

Camilia R. Martin, MD, Gregory J. Dumas, RPh, Claire Shoaie, RD, Zheng Zheng, MPH, Brenda MacKinnon, RN, Issa Al-Aweel, MS, Bruce R. Bistrian, MD, PhD, DeWayne M. Pursley, MD, and David F. Driscoll, PhD, Boston, Massachusetts

Associations between Cognitive Function, Blood Lead Concentration, and Nutrition among Children in the Central Philippines 237

Orville Solon, PhD, Travis J. Riddell, MD, MPH, Stella A. Quimbo, PhD, Elizabeth Butrick, MS, MPH, Glen P. Aylward, PhD, Marife Lou Bacate, MA, and John W. Peabody, MD, PhD, Diliman, Quezon City, Boston, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California, and Springfield, Illinois

Low Prevalence of Neurologic and Psychiatric Manifestations in Children with Gluten Sensitivity 244

Martino Ruggieri, MD, PhD, Gemma Incorpora, MD, Agata Polizzi, MD, PhD, Enrico Parano, MD, Massimo Spina, MD, and Piero Pavone, MD, Catania, Italy

Absence of Arcuate Fasciculus in Children with Global Developmental Delay of Unknown Etiology: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study 250

Senthil K. Sundaram, MD, Lalitha Sivaswamy, MD, Malek I. Makki, PhD, Michael E. Behen, PhD, and Harry T. Chugani, MD, Detroit, Michigan

Specific Language Difficulties and School Achievement in Children Born at 25 Weeks of Gestation or Less 256

Dieter Wolke, PhD, Muthanna Samara, MSc, Melanie Bracewell, MD, and Neil Marlow, MD, for the EPICure Study Group, Coventry and Nottingham, United Kingdom

Interaction of Dopamine Transporter Genotype with Prenatal Smoke Exposure on ADHD Symptoms 263

Katja Becker, MD, Mahha El-Faddagh, MD, Martin H. Schmidt, MD, PhD, Günter Esser, PhD, and Manfred Laucht, PhD, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, and Potsdam, Germany

Betamethasone Impairs Cerebral Blood Flow Velocities in Very Premature Infants with Severe Chronic Lung Disease 270

Gilles Cambonie, MD, PhD, Renaud Mesnage, MD, Christophe Milési, MD, Odile Pidoux, MD, Corinne Veyrac, MD, and Jean-Charles Picaud, MD, PhD, Montpellier, France

Cause-Specific Risks of Childhood Death in Inherited Epidermolysis Bullosa 276

Jo-David Fine, MD, MPH, Lorraine B. Johnson, MPH, ScD, Madeline Weiner, RN, and Chirayath Suchindran, PhD, Nashville, Tennessee, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Vaso-Occlusive Episodes in Older Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Emergency Department Management and Pain Assessment 281

Melissa J. Frei-Jones, MD, Amy L. Baxter, MD, Zora R. Rogers, MD, and George R. Buchanan, MD, Dallas, Texas

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Clinical and Laboratory Observations 

Bone Marrow Transplantation in Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1b 286

Germaine Pierre, MBBS, MRCPCH, Geothy Chakupurakal, MRCP, Patrick Mckiernan, BSc, MBBCh, FRCPCH, Chris Hendriksz, MBChB, MRCPCH, Sarah Lawson, BSc, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPath, and Anupam Chakrapani, MD, FRCPCH, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Unexpected Recovery of Ovarian Function Many Years after Bone Marrow Transplantation 289

Samar N. Rahhal, MD, and Erica A. Eugster, MD, Indianapolis, Indiana

Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia 291

Peter M. Mourani, MD, D. Dunbar Ivy, MD, Adam A. Rosenberg, MD, Thomas E. Fagan, MD, and Steven H. Abman, MD, Aurora, Colorado

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Insights 

Magnet Ingestion 294

Steven Schierling, MD, Samuel K. Snyder, MD, Monford Custer, MD, John F. Pohl, MD, and David Easley, MD, Temple, Texas

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Letters to the Editor 

Notice: An Overlap in Case Reports 295

William F. Balistreri, MD

Reply 295

Lawson A. B. Copley, MD, Dallas, Texas

Iron, Oxidant Injury, and Practice Choices in Preterm Infants 295

Augusto Sola, MD, and Marta Rogido, MD, Morristown, New Jersey

Reply 296

Kristin Braekke, MD, Anne Grete Bechensteen, MD, PhD, and Anne Cathrine Staff, MD, PhD, Oslo, Norway

Mentoring and the Development of the Physician-Scientist 296

Robert Lane, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Corrections 

Value of the Bronchodilator Response in Assessing Controller Naive Asthmatic Children 298

(Galant et al, J Pediatr 2007;151:457-62)

Clinical Trial of Safety and Efficacy of IHN-A21 for the Prevention of Nosocomial Staphylococcal Bloodstream Infection in Premature Infants e28

(DeJonge et al, J Pediatr 2007;151:260-5)

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Reader Services 

Information for Readers A9

Announcements A10

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