Theophylline does not shorten hospital stay for children admitted for asthma
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Hospitalized asthmatic children who are treated with albuterol and corticosteroids may not benefit from the addition of the bronchodilator theophylline. Researchers administered the corticosteroid methylprednisolone and nebulized albuterol to 42 hospitalized asthmatic children. Twenty-two patients also received doses of intravenous theophylline to maintain blood levels between 55 and 110 micromoles per liter. The other 20 patients received an intravenous placebo. The average length of hospitalization was 52 hours in theophylline recipients and 48 hours in the other patients. The average severity of asthma symptoms was similar among patients in both treatment groups at hospital admission and improved at the same rate.
Publication Name: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1072-4710
Year: 1995
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Welfare reform and food insecurity: influence on children
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Reduction in funds for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), along with transfer of authority to individual states may have a disastrous effect on the nutritional intake of children. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act of 1996 will reduce funds for WIC by $26 billion, making block grants to states. WIC was designed to insure nutritional adequacy for pregnant and lactating women and for children and infants under the age of five. This, coupled with a reduction in Food Stamp funding presents a serious health threat to these people.
Publication Name: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1072-4710
Year: 1997
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Asthma Severity Among Children Hospitalized in 1990 and 1995
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In the years between 1990 and 1995, the number of cases of childhood asthma and deaths from childhood asthma increased, while at the same time, the number of hospital admissions for children with asthma decreased. Between 1990 and 1994, the number of children under the age of 16 with ashtma increased by 26%. In the same time period, asthma deaths of children from five to 14 years of age increased by 23% while the asthma death rate of children under five decreased by 14%. During this same period, the number of children hospitalized with asthma decreased by 11%.
Publication Name: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1072-4710
Year: 2000
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