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S Herman

Publications and source records attributed to S Herman.

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PubMed1983

Long-term effects on health of air pollution in children.

A literature review is presented showing the role and relative importance of various endogenous and exogenous factors, classified into predisposing, provoking and facilitating factors, in the development of Chronic Non-Specific Respiratory Diseases (CNSRD) in children. The review is also based on the results of own clinical studies and a longitudinal epidemiological study. In total, 12,708 children were examined in the epidemiological study, including a cohort of 1,303 children examined three times. In the analysis of the frequency and the dynamics of respiratory symptoms, significant contribution of various factors was demonstrated, including history of obstructive bronchitis in the first year of life, frequency of respiratory infections in early childhood, passive tobacco smoking, socioeconomic conditions such as education of parents, day nursery and kindergarten attendance and living in an area with high levels of air pollution.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Behavioral disordered children's conceptions of moral, conventional, and personal issues.

This study employed a series of sorting tasks with 22 normal and 20 children with behavioral disorders (BD) to determine whether BD children discriminate among three classes of social actions viewed by normal children as distinct. These categories are (1) the moral (actions having intrinsic effects upon the rights or well-being of others), (2) the conventional (actions whose propriety is determined by social consensus), and (3) the personal (actions whose propriety is a matter of individual prerogative). Findings were that although BD children distinguished among the three forms of behavior, they differed with normals in the classifications of specific acts and in the reasons given for act classifications. Chief among these differences was the finding that BD children were less likely than normals to identify acts as within their personal domain.

Child↗
PubMed1982

[Plate fixation in fractures of the tibial plateau (author's transl)].

The authors have reviewed 100 cases of fracture of the upper end of the tibia with separation of a tibial plateau with some degree of depression. These cases were treated operatively with reduction of the depression and the use of an iliac bone graft to fill the bone defect and fixation with an epiphyseal plate. The results were satisfactory in 86 cases. The conclusions were that surgery should be avoided in patients with poor general condition or with poor local vitality of the limb. In these cases the possibility of delayed operation should be considered or minimum fixation obtained with an external fixator or conservative treatment using traction.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Self-ratings of type A (coronary prone) adults: do type A's know they are type A's?

This study compared self-ratings and interview-band ratings of the type A coronary-prone behavior pattern. A Type A adjective scale was developed from the Gough-Adjective Checklist (ACL), using adjectives rated as characteristic and uncharacteristic of the Type A individual by a panel of 20 Type A researchers. Scores on this scale were compared with Type A ratings based on the structural interview. Results from a sample of 378 employed males indicate a significant linear relationship between self-ratings of Type A characteristics and interview-based Type A classification. Subsequent item analysis identified a subset of adjectives which were endorsed differentially by Type A and Type B individuals, and a subset of descriptors which were not differentially endorsed by the two groups. Implications of these findings for assessment and intervention approaches to coronary-prone behavior are discussed.

Behavior↗
PubMed1975

Intestinal biopsy in the diagnosis of cow's milk protein intolerance without acute symptoms.

4 infants, suspected of cow's milk protein intolerance, were placed on an elimination diet and then challenged with cow's milk. None reacted clinically, yet in 2 of the 4 patients jejunal biopsy revealed clear histological, ultrastructural, and immunological changes. It is suggested that these changes are the objective criteria on which the diagnosis of cow's milk intolerance should be based, and that the clinical evidence derived from milk challenge after an elimination diet may be unreliable.

Biopsy↗