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                         Indian Pediatrics

June 2008, Vol. 45, Number 6


Table of Contents


From The Editor’s Desk

Do we need universal neonatal vitamin A supplementation? – Piyush Gupta 439
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President’s Page

Childhood obesity: Emerging challenge – RK Agarwal    443
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Perspective

The case for cooked meals: Concerns regarding the proposed policy shifts in the mid-day meal and ICDS programs–Mita Deshpande, Rajib Dasgupta, Rama Baru and Aparna Mohanty 445
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Editorials

Childhood obesity: Today’s and tomorrow’s health challenge Roya Kelishadi 451
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Pitfalls in investigating for diabetes insipidus – Tim Cheetham 452
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Iodine deficiency and endemic goiter: A national tragedy – K N Agarwal 454
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Research Papers

Body fat distribution in childhood obesity: Association with metabolic risk factors – Serap Semiz, Erçin Özgören, Nuran Sabir, and Ender Semiz 457
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Central diabetes insipidus: Clinical profile and factors indicating organic etiology in children – Anurag Bajpai, Madhulika Kabra and PS N Menon 463
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Goiter prevalence and iodine nutritional status of school children in a sub-Himalayan tarai region of eastern Uttar Pradesh – AK Chandra, A Bhattacharjee, T Malik and S Ghosh 469
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Viewpoints

Death of children after measles vaccination – T Jacob John   477
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Measles vaccine deaths: The IAP-COI stand–Y K Amdekar and Tanu Singhal    479
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Focus

The state of the world population 2007: Unleashing the potential of urban growth – Chandrakant Lahariya  481
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Eureca

Role of parenteral steroids to prevent extubation failure in ventilated children – Joseph L Mathew    483
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Short Communications

Gonadotropins and sex hormones in healthy Chinese infants – Chai Ji, Xin-wen Huang, Rong-wang Yang, Xu Wang, and Zheng-yan Zhao  489
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HLA-DQB1*05 association with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in children of northern Greek origin – Styliani Giza, Assimina Galli-Tsinopoulou,Panagiota Lazidou, Maria Trachana, Dimitrios Goulis   493
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity among pre-school children in semi urban South India –  H N Harsha Kumar, Padma Mohanan, Shashidhar Kotian, BS Sajjan, and S Ganesh Kumar 497
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Prevalence of obesity and overweight in affluent adolescents from Ludhiana, Punjab–T Aggarwal, RC Bhatia, D Singh and Praveen C Sobti 500
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Delayed diagnosis for undescended testes – CK Sinha, S Vinay, R Kulkarni and S Nour   503
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Case Reports

Niemann-Pick type C disease – Jayesh J Sheth, Frenny J Sheth and Nrupesh Oza 505
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Leucocyte adhesion defect–1 – K Jothilakshmi, Sugantha Priya and John Matthai 507
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Fraser syndrome with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection – Rajoo Thapa and Arunaloke Bhattacharya   510
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Correspondence

Hypertonic saline treatment in cerebral edema –Is the evidence sufficient? – Bhavneet Bharti   513
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Hypernatremic dehydration leading to peripheral gangrene – D Singh and Ruchi Rai   513
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Nutritional status of rural adolescent school children in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal – Kaushik Bose and Samiran Bisai   515
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Involving private pediatricians for research: Great caution required – S B Bavdekar and Sunil Karande   516
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Evidence based pediatrics: A welcome addition – R S Arora   517
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Reply: Evidence Eureca and evidence-based child health – J L Mathew   518
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Neonatal survival in India: Thinking beyond resource limitations – Pankaj Garg  519
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Pneumococcal vaccination: Yes or No – K B Sharda   519
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News in Brief 521
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Book Review 522
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Information Technology in Practice

Google Bhai MD! Internet as a diagnostician–Sidharth Sethi 523
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Clippings 524
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