Fiber intake and childhood appendicitis.

In order to investigate the possible role of fiber in the etiology of acute appendicitis, 203 consecutive appendectomized children with histologically proved appendicitis and 1922 controls were studied by the diet history method. Statistics were performed by multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant analysis and chi 2. Appendectomized children had statistically significant lower mean daily intake of fiber (17.

Children with alopecia areata: psychiatric symptomatology and life events.

Objectives: To examine the nature of psychopathology of children with alopecia areata (AA) and to investigate the frequency and quality of life events in the year before AA developed in comparison with a control group.

Method: Thirty-three subjects with AA, mean age 10.5 +/- 0.