Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Children: An Opportunity for Preventing Obesity.

Purpose Of Review: This review seeks to define caregiver practices that impact childhood eating behaviors and identify ways to utilize these relationships to prevent childhood obesity.

Recent Findings: Childhood obesity, which correlates with adult obesity and increased cardiovascular risk, is increasing in prevalence and severity. Caregivers play a significant role in shaping a child's eating behaviors and their predisposition to obesity.

Serial intracoronary ultrasound in children: feasibility, reproducibility, limitations, and safety.

Pediatric patients with heart transplants and Kawasaki disease are at risk to develop coronary artery disease. Selective coronary angiography underestimates vasculopathy in transplant patients and intimal changes in Kawasaki disease. Routine intracoronary ultrasound imaging in adults accurately identifies histopathologic features not visualized by angiography.

Impact of telemedicine on the practice of pediatric cardiology in community hospitals.

Background: Tele-echocardiography has the potential to bring real-time diagnoses to neonatal facilities without in-house pediatric cardiologists. Many neonates in rural areas, smaller cities, and community hospitals do not have immediate access to pediatric sonographers or echocardiogram interpretation by pediatric cardiologists. This can result in suboptimal echocardiogram quality, delay in initiation of medical intervention, unnecessary patient transport, and increased medical expenditures.