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CSU 30/2011: NOTE TO READERS/ THE MAURITIUS CHILD HEALTH STUDY

Friday, 21st of January 2011 Print
CSU 30/2011:  NOTE TO READERS/ THE MAURITIUS CHILD HEALTH STUDY
 
 
1) NOTE TO READERS
 
Here are the sources which I comb for updates. What useful sources have I omitted?
 
Bob Davis

 

American Journal of Epidemiology

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

British Medical Journal

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Cochrane reviews, at www.cochrane.org

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Eurosurveillance

International Journal of Epidemiology

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition

Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition

Malaria Journal

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

New England Journal of Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

Pan African Medical Journal

Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research, at www.nber.org

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?

PLOS Medicine

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

South African Medical Journal

The Lancet

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Weekly Epidemiological Record

www.pubmed.org

www.ted.org

www.wikipedia.org

 
2) THE MAURITIUS CHILD HEALTH STUDY
 
It is rare to track a cohort of 3-year-olds over two decades without losing most of them to follow-up. The Republic of Mauritius -- compact, well organized, and with good data keeping --  has done this, with important findings, inter alia, on the long term impact of child nutrition.
 
The Mauritius study is, according to Raine and co-authors, 'probably the largest, most comprehensive and longest-running longitudinal study on child health and development from Africa.'
 
From among the findings:
  • 'children who received a nutritional, educaitonal and physical exercise enrichment at ages 4-5 years showed reduced conduct disorder at age 17 years and reduced criminal offending at age 23 years.'
  • 'children who were stimulation seekers at age 3 years . . .  scored 12 points higher on total IQ at age 11 years.'
  • 'children with low resting heart rates at age 3 years were more aggressive at age 11 years, indepednent of possible confounders. . . .'
  • 'those children whose mothers were exposed to [influenza] virus in the second or third trimester of pregnancy had elevated schizotypal personality at 17 years.'
 
Full text, with tables, is at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/39/6/1441.long
 
Good reading.
 
BD
 
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