Background Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents are emerging public
health problems. Modifiable lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity and eating out are …

Background: Progranulin is an adipokine that is involved in the inflammatory response,
glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, and may therefore be involved in chronic subclinical …

Background Asthma, a common lung disease in children, is caused by excessive immune
responses to environmental antigens. Objective Given the immuno-modulatory properties of …

Background The majority of available studies have shown that children with sickle cell disease
(SCD) have a higher risk of depressive symptoms than those without. The present study …

Advances in asthma clinical assessment help in categorizing patients based on their clinical
severity. Eosinophilia is a common laboratory finding in asthmatics. This paper explores the …

Asthma, a common problem worldwide with numerous risk factors; yet, few researchers
mentioned iron deficiency anemia as a risk factor. This study evaluates prevalence of iron …

Objective: To investigate the association between some demographic factors and the levels
of severity among asthmatic children. Method: One hundred and twenty five asthmatic …

Intracranial aneurysms are uncommon in children. Rupture of giant intracranial aneurysms
is extremely uncommon in infants even in autopsy studies. In this report, we present an …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency rickets among female
adolescents and assess its relation to calcium intake and sun exposure. METHODS: Four …

Background: Asthma, a common lung disease in children, is caused by excessive immune
responses to environmental antigens. Objective: Given the immuno-modulatory properties of …