Publications by authors named "Cynthia McEvoy"
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- Scientists are trying to understand how certain factors might affect the health of mothers and babies, especially when it comes to birth weight.
- They studied data from over 28,000 mother-baby pairs to see how being exposed to certain environmental factors could impact birth weight and the chances of low birth weight.
- They found that small changes in exposure have a bigger effect on vulnerable groups, showing that these groups face more health challenges than others.
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- A study analyzed how different factors affected children's and caregivers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic using data from a large, diverse group of participants across the US and Puerto Rico.
- The research looked at variables like caregiver education level, child age, and whether families lived in urban or rural areas, examining outcomes related to COVID-19 infections, school and healthcare disruptions, financial struggles, and remote work.
- Results showed that caregivers with less education faced more difficulties with accessing tests, lower chances of working remotely, and greater food access issues compared to those with higher education levels.
Purpose: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of childhood blindness related to oxygen exposure in premature infants. Since oxygen monitoring protocols have reduced the incidence of treatment-requiring ROP (TR-ROP), it remains unclear whether oxygen exposure remains a relevant risk factor for incident TR-ROP and aggressive ROP (A-ROP), a severe, rapidly progressing form of ROP. The purpose of this proof-of-concept study was to use electronic health record (EHR) data to evaluate early oxygen exposure as a predictive variable for developing TR-ROP and A-ROP.
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- The text references a correction to a previously published article with the DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0245064.
- This indicates that there was likely an error or oversight in the original publication that needed to be addressed.
- The correction aims to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the research presented in the article.
Importance: Asthma is the leading chronic illness in US children, but most descriptive epidemiological data are focused on prevalence.
Objective: To evaluate childhood asthma incidence rates across the nation by core demographic strata and parental history of asthma.
Design, Setting, And Participants: For this cohort study, a distributed meta-analysis was conducted within the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium for data collected from May 1, 1980, through March 31, 2018.
Preterm birth occurs at excessively high and disparate rates in the United States. In 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program to investigate the influence of early life exposures on child health. Extant data from the ECHO cohorts provides the opportunity to examine racial and geographic variation in effects of individual- and neighborhood-level markers of socioeconomic status (SES) on gestational age at birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Disorders requiring pediatric neurocritical care (PNCC) affect thousands of children annually. We aimed to quantify the burden of PNCC through generation of national estimates of disease incidence, utilization of critical care interventions (CCI), and hospital outcomes.
Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of the Kids Inpatient Database over three years to evaluate pediatric traumatic brain injury, neuro-infection or inflammatory diseases, status epilepticus, stroke, hypoxic ischemic injury after cardiac arrest, and spinal cord injury.
Purpose: We developed summaries of oral bottle-feeding skills among preterm (<37 gestational weeks) and full-term (≥37 gestational weeks) infants using a mechanical device (Orometer) to measure intraoral pressure changes, with accompanying automated software and analytics. We then compared the rates of change in feeding skills over several weeks (feeding trends) between preterm and full-term infants. We also compared group means at 40 weeks post menstrual age (PMA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are at greater risk of permanent hearing loss compared to infants in well mother and baby units. Several factors have been associated with this increased prevalence of hearing loss, including congenital infections (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Hearing loss rates in infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICU) run at 2-15%, compared to 0.3% in full-term births. The etiology of this difference remains poorly understood.
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- - The study focuses on how premature birth (specifically between 34 to 36 weeks of gestational age) disrupts normal lung development, leading to serious respiratory issues in infants.
- - Researchers reviewed existing studies (2000-2009) that highlighted the increased risk of respiratory problems and showed that infants born at 34 to 36 weeks experience morbidity rates similar to those born even earlier.
- - It emphasizes that the underdeveloped respiratory system in these late preterm infants not only causes immediate health complications but can also result in long-term lung function deficits into adulthood.