Publications by authors named "Victoria A A Beunders"
Article Synopsis
- Very preterm children, born at less than 30 weeks, often face delays in visual orienting function (VOF) and executive function (EF) skills when they are around 3 years old.
- A study involving 90 of these children assessed their VOF using eye tracking and their EF through a parent questionnaire, finding that while 31% had abnormal VOF and 41% had global EF issues, VOF did not correlate with overall EF scores but was linked to specific attention-related problems.
- The research highlights the importance of VOF in understanding attention and concentration issues in very preterm children, suggesting that further studies are necessary to better evaluate preschool EF assessments.
Background & Aims: Air-Displacement-Plethysmography (ADP) by BOD POD is widely used for body fat assessment in children. Although validated in healthy subjects, studies about use in pediatric patients are lacking. We evaluated user experience and usability of ADP measurements with the BOD POD system in healthy children and pediatric and young adult patients.
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- The study aimed to explore the connections between sleep patterns and 24-hour activity rhythms with cardiometabolic risk factors in school-age children aged 8-11 years.
- Results showed that increased nightly awakenings were linked to lower body mass index, while higher intradaily variability was associated with greater fat mass in boys.
- The findings suggest that disruptions in activity rhythms may contribute to obesity risk in children, highlighting the need for further research to understand these relationships for potential obesity prevention strategies.
The study objective was to explore associations of fetal and infant weight patterns and preterm birth with sleep and 24-h activity rhythm parameters at school-age. In our prospective population-based study, 1327 children were followed from birth to age 10-15 years. Fetal weight was estimated using ultrasound in the second and third trimester of pregnancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: Sleep impacts the quality of life and is associated with cardiometabolic and neurocognitive outcomes. Little is known about the sleep of preterm-born children at preschool age. We, therefore, studied sleep and 24-hour rhythms of preschool children born very preterm compared with full-term children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is important to monitor body composition longitudinally, especially in children with atypical body composition trajectories. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) can be used and reference values are available. Air-displacement plethysmography (ADP) is a relatively new technique, but reference values are lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Concerns are raised about the influence of rapid growth on excessive fat mass (FM) gain in early life and later cardiometabolic health of infants born preterm.
Objectives: To study the association between postnatal weight gain trajectories and body composition in infancy in infants born very preterm.
Methods: In infants born <30 weeks gestation, we evaluated associations between weight Z-score trajectories for three consecutive timeframes (NICU stay, level-II hospital stay and at home) and body composition, measured at 2 and 6 months corrected age by air-displacement plethysmography.
Background: The ability to perceive and process visuospatial information is a condition for broader neurodevelopment. We examined the association of early visuospatial attention and processing with later neurodevelopmental outcome in very preterm infants.
Methods: Visuospatial attention and processing was assessed in 209 children (<30 weeks gestation) using an easy applicable eye tracking-based paradigm at 1 and 2 years.
Purpose: To describe the epidemiology and aetiology of ocular trauma in school-aged children who previously visited the Suriname Eye Centre (SEC) of the Academic Hospital Paramaribo.
Methods: In a hospital-based retrospective study, all cases of children who were school aged (8-15 years) at the time of the survey and previously underwent evaluation and/or treatment at the SEC because of ocular trauma were analysed. Demographic and ophthalmologic data were taken out of patient records; eye injuries were classified using the Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology classification system.
Aims: To determine the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness (SVI/BL) in children in Suriname (Dutch Guyana) and to identify preventable and treatable causes.
Methods: 4643 children under 16 years of age were recruited from two locations: 33 children attending the only school for the blind were examined and 4610 medical records were analysed at an eye clinic. Data have been collected using the WHO Prevention of Blindness Programme eye examination record for children.