Long-Term Effects of Food Supplementation and Psychosocial Intervention on the Physical Growth of Colombian Infants at Risk of Malnutrition

1990 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Super ◽  
M. Guillermo Herrera ◽  
Jose O. Mora
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Psychosocial Intervention ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Food Supplementation ◽  
Long Term Effects

Cigarette Smoking and the Fetus and Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 772-772
Author(s):  
Henry G. Dunn ◽  
Annetta K. McBurney
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Maternal Smoking ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Long Term Effects

The authoritative statement on the "Effects of Cigarette-Smoking on the Fetus and Child" (Pediatrics 57:411, March 1976) is an excellent summary but necessarily brief. With respect to the later growth and development of the children, the statement quotes only one study, which demonstrated no long-term effects of maternal smoking on physical growth and intellectual development through the first seven years of life. We believe that such effects may indeed be demonstrable though slight. In the quoted study, Hardy and Mellits1 established 88 pairs of children of matched smoking and nonsmoking mothers.

scholarly journals Two-Year Follow-Up of a Community Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Program in an Aboriginal Community

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank P. Deane ◽  
Kim Capp ◽  
Caroline Jones ◽  
Dawn de Ramirez ◽  
Gordon Lambert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Gatekeeper Training ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
Aboriginal Community

AbstractFew studies report long term follow-up of community gatekeeper training programs that aim to facilitate help-seeking for suicide and there are none in Aboriginal communities. This study aimed to determine long term effects of the Shoalhaven Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Program (SASPP), which used community gatekeeper training as its primary strategy. Following consultation with the Aboriginal community, a brief questionnaire and semi-structured interview was completed by 40 participants who attended a community gatekeeper workshop 2 years earlier. Fifteen of the 40 participants stated that they had helped someone at risk of suicide over the 2-year follow-up period. Intentions to help and confidence to identify someone at risk of suicide remained high. A significant relationship was found between intentions to help prior to the workshop and whether participants had actually helped someone at risk of suicide. Correlations suggested a link between intentions to help, and subsequent help provision. However, it is unclear whether workshop attendance contributed to this effect. Future prevention programs need to be customised to specific Aboriginal communities to reduce barriers to helpseeking behaviour.

scholarly journals Long-Term Effects of Statin Treatment in Elderly People: Extended Follow-Up of the PROspective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER)

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. e72642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Lloyd ◽  
David J. Stott ◽  
Anton J. M. de Craen ◽  
Patricia M. Kearney ◽  
Naveed Sattar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Statin Treatment ◽  
Long Term Effects

scholarly journals Long-Term Effects of Methadone Maintenance Treatment with Different Psychosocial Intervention Models

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. e87931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lirong Wang ◽  
Xiaoli Wei ◽  
Xueliang Wang ◽  
Jinsong Li ◽  
Hengxin Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Intervention ◽  
Methadone Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Maintenance Treatment ◽  
Methadone Maintenance ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Intervention Models

scholarly journals Effects of Prenatal Dexamethasone Treatment on Postnatal Physical, Endocrine, and Social Development in the Common Marmoset Monkey

Endocrinology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 1813-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Hauser ◽  
Andrea Dettling-Artho ◽  
Sonia Pilloud ◽  
Claudia Maier ◽  
Alana Knapman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Cortisol ◽  
Common Marmoset ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Maternal Plasma ◽  
Physical Growth ◽  
Gestation Period ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Common Marmosets

The prophylactic treatment of diagnosed preterm delivery with synthetic glucocorticoids, such as dexamethasone (DEX), is commonplace. Long-term effects of such treatment are not well understood. In the present study, we exposed pregnant common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), small-bodied monkeys that are therefore advantageous for long-term primate studies, to daily repeated DEX (5 mg/kg orally) either during early (d 42–48) or late (d 90–96) pregnancy (gestation period of 144 d). Relative to control, we investigated DEX effects in terms of maternal endocrinology (plasma cortisol and estrogen titers) and offspring physical growth, plasma and urinary ACTH and cortisol titers, and social and maintenance behaviors from birth to weaning. Both DEX treatments resulted in markedly reduced maternal plasma cortisol titers during treatment and reduced estimated gestation period. Both treatments were without effects on neonate morphometric measurements and basal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity. Early DEX treatment resulted in increased infant body weight at postnatal d 56 and 84, co-occurring at the behavioral level with increased time spent in eating solid food, a mobile state, solitary play, and exhibiting tail hair piloerection. The constellation of physical and behavioral effects of early DEX suggests interesting parallels with the human metabolic syndrome, providing primate support that the latter is causally associated with the fetal environment, including prenatal programming. This novel primate in vivo evidence for postnatal effects of prenatal synthetic glucocorticoid exposure indicates the importance of improved understanding of this acute clinical treatment in terms of its long-term effects on offspring well-being.

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