Sleep-disordered breathing: clinical features, pathophysiology and diagnosis

Sleep-disordered breathing may lead to excessive daytime sleepiness, fatigue, decreased alertness during the daytime and impaired cognitive functioning. Even more importantly, it is a major risk factor for future cerebro- and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

Markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in schoolchildren with obesity and metabolic syndrome

It appears that obesity per se, rather than metabolic syndrome, is linked to increased circulating levels of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction in children and adolescents.

Leucopenia associated with metamizole: a case-control study

Metamizole is a useful antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drug, but can be associated with leucopenia. If risk factors for this complication were known, these could be used to identify patients for whom metamizole should be avoided.

Supplementum 222: Joint annual meeting Swiss Society of Paediatrics and the Swiss Society for Allergology and Immunology, jointly organized with the 4th Lymphoid Tissue Meeting “Focus on Stromal Cells”