Forced expiratory flows and volumes in a Swedish cohort of healthy term infants.

Background: The use of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in infants has increased during the last decades, making the need for equipment- and ethnic-specific reference data mandatory for appropriate interpretation of the results.

Aim: Our aim was to investigate how well the already published reference equations for infant spirometry fit a healthy population of Swedish infants.

Method: We performed forced tidal and raised volume expiratory maneuvers in healthy infants using Jaeger BabyBody equipment.

Hospital-assisted home care after early discharge from a Swedish neonatal intensive care unit was safe and readmissions were rare.

Aim: It is common in Sweden to discharge infants early from a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and provide hospital-assisted neonatal home care (HANHC), as an alternative to hospital care, for infants with a persisting need for specialised care. This study assessed the safety of HANHC by reviewing hospital readmissions.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the files of all 1410 infants enrolled in HANHC at the NICU at Sachs' Children's Hospital, Stockholm, from 2002 to 2011 up until hospital readmission or their discharge from HANHC.

Respiratory infections in preterm infants and subsequent asthma: a cohort study.

Objectives: To investigate whether gestational age modifies the association of airway infections that result in hospital admission during the first year after birth, with subsequent asthma risk after age 5 years.

Setting: Hospital inpatients and a general population comparison group in Sweden followed for subsequent diagnoses in primary and secondary care.

Participants: National registers identified 42 334 children admitted to hospital for respiratory infection in their first year after birth during 1981-1995, individually matched with 211 594 children not admitted to hospital for infection during their first year.

Weight control program for obese pregnant women.

We evaluated an intervention program to control pregnancy weight gain among obese women with body mass index > 30 by a dietary and physical activity program. Maternal weight gain and pregnancy outcome were evaluated. Of 27 obese women, 25 (92%) completed the study.