Promoting cardiovascular health and wellness among African-Americans: Community participatory approach to design an innovative mobile-health intervention.

Background: Despite improvements in mortality rates over the past several decades, cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the leading cause of death for African-Americans (AAs). Innovative approaches through mobile health (mHealth) interventions have the potential to support lifestyle change for CV disease prevention among AAs. We aimed to translate a behavioral theory-informed, evidence-based, face-to-face health education program into an mHealth lifestyle intervention for AAs.

Disability-adjusted life-year burden of abusive head trauma at ages 0-4.

Objective: We estimated the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) burden of abusive head trauma (AHT) at ages 0 to 4 years in the United States.

Methods: DALYs are computed by summing years of productive life that survivors lost to disability plus life-years lost to premature death. Surveying a convenience sample of 170 caregivers and pediatricians yielded health-related disability over time according to severity of AHT (measured with the Health Utilities Index, Mark 2).

Age-related incidence of publicly reported shaken baby syndrome cases: is crying a trigger for shaking?

Objective: : This study aims to determine whether the age-specific incidences (1) of publicly reported cases of shaken baby syndrome (SBS) and (2) of publicly reported cases of SBS with crying as the stimulus have similar properties to the previously reported normal crying curve.

Methods: : The study reports cases of SBS by age of the child at the time of the inflicted trauma from the data set of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome using cases entered between January 1, 2003 and August 31, 2004.

Results: : There were 591 cases of infants up to 1.