Family functioning guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida
Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020 Research supports a resilience-disruption model of family functioning in families with a child with spina bifida. Guidelines are warranted to both minimize disruption to the family system and maximize family resilience and adaptation to multiple spina ...
Tessa K. Kritikos, Grayson N. Holmbeck
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Identification of novel CELSR1 mutations in spina bifida. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Spina bifida is one of the most common neural tube defects (NTDs) with a complex etiology. Variants in planar cell polarity (PCP) genes have been associated with NTDs including spina bifida in both animal models and human cohorts.
Yunping Lei +5 more
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Genes in glucose metabolism and association with spina bifida. [PDF]
, 2008 The authors test single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in coding sequences of 12 candidate genes involved in glucose metabolism and obesity for associations with spina bifida.
Au, Kit Sing +6 more
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Nutrition, metabolic syndrome, and obesity: Guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida
Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020 Nutritional challenges and a lack of activity can lead to health problems across the lifespan for people with spina bifida. Children and adults with spina bifida are also at greater risk of being classified as overweight or obese compared to their peers ...
Amy C. McPherson +3 more
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Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2023 Objective: To analyse survival rates and causes of death in adults with spina bifida in Sweden compared with a matched control group. Design and methods: This population-based study included 11,900 adults born between 1950 and 1997.
Melinda Rocchi +3 more
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Parental strees and support of parents of children with spina bifida in Uganda [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Children with disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa depend for a large part of their functioning on their parent or caregiver. This study explores parental stress and support of parents of children with spina bifida in Uganda.
Bannink Mbazzi, Femke +2 more
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Investigating the Knowledge Surrounding Folate and Folic Acid in a Cohort of Vegetarians
SURE Journal: (Science Undergraduate Research Experience Journal), 2019 BackgroundThe aim is to identify any gaps in the knowledge of folate and folic acid in vegetarians, which is of interest given the increasing adoption of vegetarian type diets.
Michael Dolan +3 more
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UROLOGICAL PATHOLOGY IN PATIENTS WITH SPINA BIFIDA: A REVIEW
Juvenis Scientia, 2022 Spina bifida is a developmental defect of the spinal cord and / or spine that results from abnormal closure of the embryonic neural tube. Many factors have been described to determine the risks of developing this pathology, but the incidence of the ...
N. V. Khudyakova +5 more
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Prevention of spina bifida : folic acid intake during pregnancy in Gulu district, northern Uganda [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: The intake of folic acid before conception and during the first trimester of pregnancy can prevent spina bifida. This paper describes folic acid intake in women in Gulu district in northern Uganda.
Bannink Mbazzi, Femke +4 more
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Spina bifida-predisposing heterozygous mutations in Planar Cell Polarity genes and Zic2 reduce bone mass in young mice [PDF]
, 2018 Fractures are a common comorbidity in children with the neural tube defect (NTD) spina bifida. Mutations in the Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway contribute to NTDs in humans and mice, but whether this pathway independently determines bone mass is ...
A Kamalakar +66 more
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