Publications by authors named "Alja Bijlsma"
Article Synopsis
- Very preterm children, born at less than 30 weeks, often face delays in visual orienting function (VOF) and executive function (EF) skills when they are around 3 years old.
- A study involving 90 of these children assessed their VOF using eye tracking and their EF through a parent questionnaire, finding that while 31% had abnormal VOF and 41% had global EF issues, VOF did not correlate with overall EF scores but was linked to specific attention-related problems.
- The research highlights the importance of VOF in understanding attention and concentration issues in very preterm children, suggesting that further studies are necessary to better evaluate preschool EF assessments.
Background & Aims: Air-Displacement-Plethysmography (ADP) by BOD POD is widely used for body fat assessment in children. Although validated in healthy subjects, studies about use in pediatric patients are lacking. We evaluated user experience and usability of ADP measurements with the BOD POD system in healthy children and pediatric and young adult patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: Sleep impacts the quality of life and is associated with cardiometabolic and neurocognitive outcomes. Little is known about the sleep of preterm-born children at preschool age. We, therefore, studied sleep and 24-hour rhythms of preschool children born very preterm compared with full-term children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is important to monitor body composition longitudinally, especially in children with atypical body composition trajectories. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) can be used and reference values are available. Air-displacement plethysmography (ADP) is a relatively new technique, but reference values are lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Rotavirus infections in neonates: not as innocent as expected].
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
November 2019
Background: Rotavirus is a common cause of gastroenteritis in children. It is much less known that rotavirus infections can lead to encephalitis with convulsions in neonates.
Case Description: A premature boy (36 weeks + 5 days) developed neonatal convulsions 17 days post-partum.