Neurological outcomes and mortality after neonatal seizures with electroencephalographical verification. A systematic review.

Aim: To conduct a systematic review of post-neonatal neurological outcomes and mortality following neonatal seizures with electroencephalographical verification.

Methods: The databases Medline, Embase and Web of Science were searched for eligible studies. All abstracts were screened in a blinded fashion between research team members and reports found eligible were obtained and screened in full text by two members each.

Validation of central nervous system-induced seizures and other neurological variables in the Swedish Neonatal Quality Register.

Aim: We sought to validate neurological variables and relevant International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes in the Swedish Neonatal Quality (SNQ) Register.

Methods: Register data were collected for 351 neonates, born between January 2009 and December 2016, who were treated at a neonatal unit in the Stockholm region on 385 occasions. They were eligible if the check-box for central nervous system (CNS)-induced seizures was ticked.

First evaluation of the paediatric version of the Swedish rapid emergency triage and treatment system shows good reliability.

Aim: To investigate the reliability of Retts-p, Rapid emergency triage and treatment system-paediatric, with regard to inter-rater and intra-rater agreement.

Method: Twenty nurses responsible for triaging both children and adults at the Emergency Department, Östersund County Hospital, Sweden, were randomly selected to take part in the study. The nurses were asked to use the Retts-p triage system to retrospectively assess the written case reports on 40 paediatric cases, aged from 6 month to 17.

Subcutaneous adipocytes from obese hyperinsulinemic women with polycystic ovary syndrome exhibit normal insulin sensitivity but reduced maximal insulin responsiveness.

Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) has a high prevalence in women and is often associated with insulin resistance and hence with aspects of the so-called metabolic syndrome.

Methods: Ten women diagnosed with PCOS were consecutively included (aged 21-39 years, average 30.2 +/- 1.

Glucose transport is equally sensitive to insulin stimulation, but basal and insulin-stimulated transport is higher, in human omental compared with subcutaneous adipocytes.

Excess visceral fat has been found to correlate more closely with morbidity than subcutaneous fat. We found that isolated adipocytes from omental fat of nondiabetic women expressed significantly more of the insulin-regulated glucose transporter glucose transporter 4 protein and exhibited a higher basal and insulin-stimulated rate of glucose transport, at all concentrations of insulin, than subcutaneous adipocytes from the same individuals. In contrast, dose-response relationships for insulin stimulation of glucose transport demonstrated identical sensitivity to insulin in adipocytes from the 2 locations.