Examining the evidence between screen time and night eating behaviour with dietary intake related to metabolic syndrome: A narrative review.

Screen time (ST) on digital devices has increased in recent decades due to digital development. Furthermore, constant engagement with digital devices alters sleep patterns, leading to nocturnal eating behaviour among users. These phenomena are therefore of great concern, as digital device addiction and night eating are associated with unhealthy food intake, increasing the metabolic syndrome (MetS) risks.

Longitudinal growth of children born with gastroschisis or omphalocele.

Unlabelled: Normal childhood growth is an indicator of good health, but data addressing the growth of children born with abdominal wall defects (AWDs) are limited. The detailed growth phenotypes of children born with gastroschisis or omphalocele are described and compared to peers without AWDs from birth to adolescence. Data from 183 gastroschisis and 144 omphalocele patients born between 1993 and 2017 were gathered from Finnish nationwide registers and electronic health records.

Charting infants' motor development at home using a wearable system: validation and comparison to physical growth charts.

Background: Early neurodevelopmental care and research are in urgent need of practical methods for quantitative assessment of early motor development. Here, performance of a wearable system in early motor assessment was validated and compared to developmental tracking of physical growth charts.

Methods: Altogether 1358 h of spontaneous movement during 226 recording sessions in 116 infants (age 4-19 months) were analysed using a multisensor wearable system.

Heart rate dynamics during a simulated fireground test: The influence of physical characteristics and fitness1.

Background: Firefighting is a physiologically demanding occupation and there is a need to evaluate physical and fitness characteristics that are related to attenuated physiological stress during fireground tasks. Previous studies have not measured associations between heart rate responses during simulated fireground tasks with a standardized work rate.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine associations between heart rate during a standardized pace simulated fireground test (SFGT) and heart rate recovery and variability following the SFGT.

Results From Finland's 2022 Para Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Adolescents With Disabilities.

Finland's 2022 Para Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Adolescents With Disabilities includes a summary of results and grades for 10 physical activity indicators and highlights how these grades are interpreted by stakeholders. The disability classification was based on the UNICEF/Washington Group on Disability Statistics measure, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD7) measure, or education status. Data between 2017 and 2021 were reviewed by 24 physical activity specialists using benchmarks adapted for data on disabilities from the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance.

Epidemiology of Disorders Associated with Short Stature in Childhood: A 20-Year Birth Cohort Study in Finland.

Background: Many primary and secondary disorders disturb growth and cause short stature (height below -2 SDS) in childhood. Growth monitoring programs aim at their early detection but are not evidence-based: epidemiology of childhood growth disorders is poorly characterized, and no consensus exists on priority target conditions. Herein, we describe population-based epidemiological data on several primary and secondary growth disorders associated with short stature in childhood.

Prevalence of Thinness, Overweight, Obesity, and Central Obesity in Finnish School-Aged Children: A Comparison of National and International Reference Values.

Introduction: The global epidemic of obesity concerns children, and monitoring the prevalence is of highest priority. Body mass index (BMI) with age- and sex-specific cutoff values determines weight status in children, although multiple reference systems exist. Our aim was to compare the prevalence for thinness, normal weight, overweight, and obesity in Finnish school-aged children according to national and international reference values, as well as to determine which cutoff values for overweight agree with the criteria for central obesity.

An examination of factors that may contribute to gender differences in psychomotor processing speed.

Background: For unknown reasons, females outperform males on tests of psychomotor processing speed (PS), such as the Coding and Symbol Search subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Method: In the present study, the effects of intelligence, memory, personality, fine motor speed, gross motor dexterity, height, weight, age, sex, and education on psychomotor processing speed were studied in an outpatient sample (n = 130).

Results: Moderate (r > .

Procedural Sedation Intubation in a Paramedic-Staffed Helicopter Emergency Medical System in Northern Finland.

Objective: Airway management to ensure sufficient gas exchange is of major importance in emergency care. Prehospital endotracheal intubation (ETI) by paramedics is a widely debated method to ensure a patent airway. ETI is performed with procedural sedation in comatose patients because of the regulation.

Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Head Growth in Comparison to Height and Weight Growth Up to 6 Years of Age: A Longitudinal Study.

Background: Maternal smoking during pregnancy causes fetal growth retardation. Thereafter, it has been associated with excessive childhood weight gain and decreased linear growth in the offspring. However, it is not known whether head circumference (HC), the surrogate of brain size in childhood, is altered after intrauterine tobacco exposure.

Early Detection of Abnormal Growth Associated with Juvenile Acquired Hypothyroidism.

Context: Development of the typical growth phenotype in juvenile acquired hypothyroidism (JHT), the faltering linear growth with increasing weight, has not been thoroughly characterized.

Objective: To describe longitudinal growth pattern in children developing JHT and investigate how their growth differs from the general population in systematic growth monitoring.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Screening of hydrocephalus in infants using either WHO or population-based head circumference reference charts.

Aim: The aim was to compare the performances of the World Health Organization (WHO) and population-based (PB) references in the screening for hydrocephalus in infants aged <2 years.

Methods: We collected 341 longitudinal head circumference (HC) measurements of hydrocephalic infants and 120 181 measurements of 15 145 healthy infants from primary care. The measurements were converted into z-scores, and a new screening parameter, change in HC standard deviation score (SDS) over time (ΔHC SDS), was calculated.

Changes in body composition by age and obesity status in preschool-aged children: the STEPS study.

Background/objectives: Obesity in early childhood is associated with increased risk of chronic diseases, but studies of body composition at preschool ages are sparse. Therefore, we examined differences in body composition by sex and obesity status in Finnish preschool-aged children and within-individual changes in body composition in normal and overweight children.

Subject/methods: Body composition was measured using segmental multifrequency bioimpedance analysis (BIA) in 476 children and in 781 children at age 3 and 5 years, respectively.

The Influence of Age on Firefighter Combat Challenge Performance and Exercise Training Habits.

Saari, AI, Renz, G, Davis, P, and Abel, MG. The influence of age on firefighter combat challenge performance and exercise training habits. J Strength Cond Res 34(9): 2500-2506, 2020-The primary purpose of this study was to compare older vs.

Utilization of In Vitro, In Vivo and In Silico Tools to Evaluate the pH-Dependent Absorption of a BCS Class II Compound and Identify a pH-Effect Mitigating Strategy.

Purpose: To describe a stepwise approach to evaluate the pH effect for a weakly basic drug by in vitro, in vivo and in silico techniques and identify a viable mitigation strategy that addresses the risk.

Methods: Clinical studies included assessment of the pH effect with famotidine. In vitro dissolution was evaluated in various biorelevant media and in a pH-shift test.

Patient Preferences in Cases of Inter-system Medical Error Discovery (IMED).

Objective: This study analyzes patients' preferences around disclosure in cases of IMED.

Background: Patients prefer that physicians disclose their self-discovered medical errors, and disclosure expectations and practices have changed accordingly. Patient preferences about disclosure when physicians discover another provider's error are unknown.

Corrigendum: Genetic identification of thiosulfate sulfurtransferase as an adipocyte-expressed antidiabetic target in mice selected for leanness.

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/nm.4115.

A New Device for Securing Sternal Wires After Median Sternotomy: Biomechanical Study and Retrospective Clinical Assessment.

Objective: Morbidity due to sternotomy continues to be a significant clinical problem. Poor approximation of the sternum may lead to complications such as sternal dehiscence, infection, and pain. A device to assist in tensioning and twisting standard steel wires during sternal closure has been developed (TORQ sternal closure device).

Validation of the 3-Minute All-Out Exercise Test for Shuttle Running Prescription.

Saari, A, Dicks, ND, Hartman, ME, and Pettitt, RW. Validation of the 3-minute all-out exercise test for shuttle running prescription. J Strength Cond Res 33(6): 1679-1685, 2019-A 3-minute all-out exercise test (3 MT) for running has been developed to determine critical speed (CS) and finite capacity for running speeds > CS (D') which allow for the prediction of time limits (TLIMs) associated with running different distances.

Transient Postnatal Gonadal Activation and Growth Velocity in Infancy.

Background And Objective: Transient activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis with a sex steroid surge is observed in boys and girls during the first months of life. However, the role of sex steroids in the regulation of growth has not been substantiated in infancy. We tested the hypothesis that testosterone (T) surge, known to be higher in infant boys than in girls during the transient postnatal gonadal activation regulates linear growth in infants.

Genetic identification of thiosulfate sulfurtransferase as an adipocyte-expressed antidiabetic target in mice selected for leanness.

The discovery of genetic mechanisms for resistance to obesity and diabetes may illuminate new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of this global health challenge. We used the polygenic 'lean' mouse model, which has been selected for low adiposity over 60 generations, to identify mitochondrial thiosulfate sulfurtransferase (Tst; also known as rhodanese) as a candidate obesity-resistance gene with selectively increased expression in adipocytes. Elevated adipose Tst expression correlated with indices of metabolic health across diverse mouse strains.

[Finland is a pioneer in childhood growth monitoring--Is is evidence-based?].

In Finland, growth monitoring is a fundamental part of preventive child health care, aiming at an early detection of childhood illnesses as well as weight gain or loss. However, evidence-based studies on growth monitoring are practically lacking. Updated growth curves must be representative of the monitored population.