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The relationship between obesity, metabolic syndrome, related disorders, and various allergic diseases remains unclear. An overview of reviews investigating potential associations between obesity or metabolic syndrome and various allergic diseases was conducted. MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched.

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  • Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sleep disorder causing discomfort in the legs and an urge to move them, particularly at night, which may be linked to higher rates of depression.
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of 24 studies found that approximately 30.39% of RLS patients experience depression, with only 3.41% reported using antidepressants.
  • The study concluded that while a significant number of RLS patients have depressive symptoms, more research using standardized methods is needed to better understand the relationship between RLS severity and depression.
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Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome (ISCLS) is a rare disease characterized by hypotensive shock, anasarca, hemoconcentration, and hypoalbuminemia. Despite the life-threatening course of the disease, no treatment strategy has been established. A 68-year-old man presented with hypotensive shock following a prodrome.

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Whether Kawasaki disease (KD) and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection are two distinct syndromes or part of the same spectrum is not fully understood. In this report, we present the case of a five-year-old boy who fully satisfied the diagnostic criteria for both KD and MIS-C associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. He tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on an oropharyngeal swab antigen test approximately four weeks before the onset of symptoms.

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Objective Drug fever is defined as a fever that temporally coincides with the start of a culprit drug and disappears after discontinuation of the drug. It is a common cause of nosocomial fever, which refers to a fever that develops beyond the first 48 h after hospital admission. However, the exact prevalence of drug fever among cases of nosocomial fever is unclear, as is the variation in prevalence depending on the clinical setting and most common causative drugs.

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Context: Approximately 10% to 20% of patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) are refractory to initial intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy. KD is mainly associated with coronary artery abnormalities.

Objectives: To identify and evaluate all developed prediction models for IVIG resistance in patients with KD and synthesize evidence from external validation studies that evaluated their predictive performances.

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Background: Most cases of beta-lactam allergy in children are likely to be mislabeled. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of true positives, as determined by drug challenge tests, and the rate of false negatives in children with suspected allergies and confirm the safety of the drug challenge test.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis according to established procedures.

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Whether reducing exposure to varicella by the implementation of the routine varicella vaccination program for children leads to increased incidence of herpes zoster (HZ) remains controversial. The aim of the present study was to identify the trend in the hospitalization associated with HZ before and after the introduction of routine varicella vaccination by using nationally representative data from an inpatient database in Japan. Data were obtained on the number of inpatients hospitalized for HZ from the "Survey on the effect of the introduction of Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) database" and the total population in Japan from the Population Estimates created by the former Statistics Bureau between fiscal years 2013 and 2018.

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Background: Neonatal jaundice and phototherapy have been associated with the development of allergic diseases. It has been suggested, however, that effect estimates of the associations might be smaller than expected. We sought to update the evidence of their associations including recently published large longitudinal studies.

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Background: Few studies have investigated the regional variations in the development of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. This study aimed to investigate regional variations in medical costs for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and the correlations between sunshine duration and medical care costs for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in an ecological study, using the National Database of Japan.

Methods: We obtained data on the annual medical costs for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, annual live births, and annual sunshine duration in each prefecture from the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan (NDB) Open Data, Vital Statistics in Japan, and System of Social and Demographic Statistics Prefectural Data Basic Data from 2014 to 2017.

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We constructed an optimal machine learning (ML) method for predicting intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) resistance in children with Kawasaki disease (KD) using commonly available clinical and laboratory variables. We retrospectively collected 98 clinical records of hospitalized children with KD (2-109 months of age). We found that 20 (20%) children were resistant to initial IVIG therapy.

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Comment on Das et al.

Pediatr Allergy Immunol

February 2021

Systematic Review Workshop Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan.

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