Longitudinal study of psychomotor development in asphyxiated newborns using brunetlezine test for DQ estimation

The present longitudinal study, included 45 asphyxiated newborns [23 males and 22 females]. Monthly follow up for 1 year, using the Brunet-lezine test for early detection of delayed psychomotor development revealed that, 18% of cases had severe delay with mean DQ of 50.89% +/- 2.03, 22% had moderate delay with mean DQ of 64.5% +/- 5.5, 20% had mild delay with mean DQ of 21.10% +/- 3.24, and 30% found to be developed normally with mean DQ of 91.4% +/- 1.45. The approach for quantifying the results of asphyxia is the Apgar scores

Risk factors as predictors of asthma in children

The present study comprised 82 asthmatic children [36 males and 46 females] with age ranged from 9 months to 14 years. Frequent asthma was reported in 65% of the cases and current asthma in 35%. High risk children with frequent asthma were those with history of hay fever, positive family history of asthma, emotional upsets, and those exposed to odors, summer season and spontaneous occurrence of the attacks. While family history of atopy, respiratory tract infections, food allergy and night, were risk factors for frequent asthma, with marginal significance. The risky children with current asthma were those who had positive family history of smoking [passive smoking], smoke and no seasonal variation, all with marginal significance. The results revealed that history of hay fever in children and positive family history of asthma were the relative significant risk factors in association with frequent asthma [Odd's ratio 4.19 and 4.35, respectively]. It was concluded that, these findings have implication in the treatment and prognosis of childhood asthma, for focusing on health education about asthma and environmental control