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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.'
Good reading.
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