From premature birth to premature kidney disease: does accelerated aging play a role?

As the limits of fetal viability have increased over the past 30 years, there has been a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that chronic disease should be taken into greater consideration in addition to survival after preterm birth. Accumulating evidence also suggests there is early onset of biologic aging after preterm birth. Similarly, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is also associated with a phenotype of advanced biologic age which exceeds chronologic age.

A Gut Feeling: Abdominal Symptoms as an Initial Presentation of EVALI.

Electronic cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) is a disease process that has become prevalent in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported there have been almost 2700 cases of this condition in the United States as of January 14, 2020, with >50% of these patients aged ≤24. We present a 13-year-old boy with a history of functional abdominal pain who presented with recurrent episodes of nausea, emesis, periodic fevers, and severe episodic abdominal pain after a 12-month history of significant electronic cigarette use.