Acta Paediatrica

Article	Citations
Systematic review of COVID‐19 in children shows milder cases and a better prognosis than adults	1578
Preliminary evidence on long COVID in children	318
Why is COVID‐19 so mild in children?	225
Case report and systematic review suggest that children may experience similar long‐term effects to adults after clinical COVID‐19	222
Children are unlikely to be the main drivers of the COVID‐19 pandemic – A systematic review	195
The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy and the key actions and actors that were involved	180
Delayed diagnosis of paediatric appendicitis during the COVID‐19 pandemic	123
Physical activity during COVID‐19 quarantine	74
The impacts of COVID‐19 on children	67
Maternal breastmilk, infant gut microbiome and the impact on preterm infant health	65
Parents experiencing NICU visit restrictions due to COVID‐19 pandemic	54
Review of guidelines and recommendations from 17 countries highlights the challenges that clinicians face caring for neonates born to mothers with COVID‐19	52
Convulsions in children with COVID‐19 during the Omicron wave	51
Lessons learned from the COVID‐19 pandemic	50
Persistent symptoms in Swedish children after hospitalisation due to COVID‐19	48
A ‘parallel pandemic’: The psychosocial burden of COVID‐19 in children and adolescents	48
The effects of proton pump inhibitors on the microbiome in young children	45
Impact that the COVID‐19 pandemic on routine childhood vaccinations and challenges ahead: A narrative review	44
The impact of the COVID‐19 lockdown in Italy on a paediatric emergency setting	43
Promoting attachment between parents and neonates despite the COVID‐19 pandemic	42
Recreational screen time before and during COVID‐19 in school‐aged children	41
Supporting parents as essential care partners in neonatal units during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic	41
Current ideas about the roles of rapid eye movement and non–rapid eye movement sleep in brain development	39
Italian parents welcomed a telehealth family‐centred rehabilitation programme for children with disability during COVID‐19 lockdown	36
The impact of face masks on children—A mini review	36

Novel coronavirus infection (COVID‐19) in children younger than one year: A systematic review of symptoms, management and outcomes	36
Lactoferrin is an important factor when breastfeeding and COVID‐19 are considered	35
Progress, challenges and global approaches to rare diseases	35
Missing during COVID‐19 lockdown: Children with onset of type 1 diabetes	34
We urgently need guidelines for managing COVID‐19 in children with comorbidities	34
Systematic review and meta‐analysis of breastfeeding and later overweight or obesity expands on previous study for World Health Organization	33
Quality of life of adults born very preterm or very low birth weight: A systematic review	31
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children occurred in one of four thousand children with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	31
High rates of antibiotic prescriptions in children with COVID‐19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome: A multinational experience in 990 cases from Latin America	31
Spectrum of COVID‐19 in children	31
Systematic review of health and disease in Ukrainian children highlights poor child health and challenges for those treating refugees	31
The impact of Caesarean section on the infant gut microbiome	30
Systematic review confirmed the benefits of early skin‐to‐skin contact but highlighted lack of studies on very and extremely preterm infants	30
Paediatric emergency department visits fell by more than 70% during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Northern Italy	30
Virus‐triggered secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis	29
Prenatal origins of neuropsychiatric diseases	28
Systematic review and meta‐analysis suggest that the duration of Kangaroo mother care has a direct impact on neonatal growth	28
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a male adolescent after his second Pfizer‐BioNTech COVID‐19 vaccine	28
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children with and without risk for neurodevelopmental impairments	27
Bilirubin estimates from smartphone images of newborn infants’ skin correlated highly to serum bilirubin levels	27
Paediatric COVID‐19 admissions in a region with open schools during the two first months of the pandemic	27
Systematic review shows the benefits of involving the fathers of preterm infants in early interventions in neonatal intensive care units	27
A national survey showed low levels of physical activity in a representative sample of Swedish adolescents	27
Multicentre Spanish study found no incidences of viral transmission in infants born to mothers with COVID‐19	26
Infant bronchiolitis dramatically reduced during the second French COVID‐19 outbreak	25
How Sweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic: Summary and commentary on the National Commission Inquiry	25
Neurodevelopmental disorders and somatic diagnoses in a national cohort of children born before 24 weeks of gestation	24
Developmental outcome of extremely preterm infants is improved after less invasive surfactant application: Developmental outcome after LISA	23
Systematic review and meta‐analysis found that intranasal dexmedetomidine was a safe and effective sedative drug during paediatric procedural sedation	23
Mother‐Newborn Couplet Care from theory to practice to ensure zero separation for all newborns	22
Is the effect of COVID‐19 on children underestimated in low‐ and middle‐ income countries?	22
Identifying language disorder in bilingual children aged 2.5 years requires screening in both languages	22
A systematic review of prevention and treatment of infantile colic	22
Controlled case series demonstrates how parents can be trained to treat paediatric feeding disorders at home	22
Acute abdomen in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: A systematic review	21
How should we assess renal function in neonates and infants?	21
The impact of problematic smartphone use on children's and adolescents’ quality of life: A systematic review	21
Clinical characteristics of paediatric COVID‐19 patients followed for up to 13 months	20
A large‐scale study to describe the prevalence, characteristics and management of functional gastrointestinal disorders in African infants	20
A shorter breastfeeding duration in late preterm infants than term infants during the first year	20
Neonatal sepsis prediction through clinical decision support algorithms: A systematic review	20
Psychopathological problems related to the COVID‐19 pandemic and possible prevention with music therapy	20
First COVID‐19 lockdown resulted in most respiratory viruses disappearing among hospitalised children, with the exception of rhinoviruses	20
Comparative performance of head ultrasound and MRI in detecting preterm brain injury and predicting outcomes: A systematic review	20
Peer support groups for families in Neonatology: Why and how to get started?	19
Systematic review found that using thin catheters to deliver surfactant to preterm neonates was associated with reduced bronchopulmonary dysplasia and mechanical ventilation	19
COVID‐19 in Italian paediatric patients: The experience of a tertiary children's hospital	19
Population‐based study of multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID‐19 found that 36% of children had persistent symptoms	18
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Towards a combined bio‐social life‐course perspective	18
Where have all the emergency paediatric mental health patients gone during COVID‐19?	18

Long‐term symptoms of COVID‐19 in children	18
The prenatal phase of retinopathy of prematurity	18
Immediate skin‐to‐skin contact may have beneficial effects on the cardiorespiratory stabilisation in very preterm infants	18
Appropriate care for neonates born to mothers with COVID‐19 disease	18
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children rose and fell with the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in France	18
Strategies discussed at the XIIth international conference on Kangaroo mother care for implementation on a countrywide scale	18
Can child drowning be eradicated? A compelling case for continued investment in prevention	17
Accurate neonatal heart rate monitoring using a new wireless, cap mounted device	17
Evaluation showed that stakeholders valued the support provided by the Implementing Pediatric Advance Care Planning Toolkit	17
The COVID‐19 pandemic dramatically reduced admissions of children with and without chronic conditions to general paediatric wards	17
Parental and staff experiences of restricted parental presence on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during COVID‐19	17
Nationwide COVID‐19 survey of Italian parents reveals useful information on attitudes to school attendance, medical support, vaccines and drug trials	17
Pathogenesis of necrotising enterocolitis: The impact of the altered gut microbiota and antibiotic exposure in preterm infants	17
Clinical features and treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis	17
Bumetanide for autism: Open‐label trial in six children	17
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia predicted at birth by artificial intelligence	17
Using the prone position could help to combat the development of fast hypoxia in some patients with COVID‐19	17
Additional hypotheses about why COVID‐19 is milder in children than adults	16
Pain is frequent in children with cerebral palsy and negatively affects physical activity and participation	16
Accuracy of pulse oximetry in preterm and term infants is insufficient to determine arterial oxygen saturation and tension	16
Developmental trajectories of sleep during childhood and adolescence are related to health in young adulthood	16
Kawasaki disease or Kawasaki‐like disease: Influence of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections in Japan	16
Optimisation of clinical workflow and monitor settings safely reduces alarms in the NICU	16
A randomised crossover trial of closed loop automated oxygen control in preterm, ventilated infants	16
Physical activity assessments in children with congenital heart disease: A systematic review	15
Parental experiences of their infant’s hospital admission undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review	15
Re‐evaluation of medical findings in alleged shaken baby syndrome and abusive head trauma in Norwegian courts fails to support abuse diagnoses	15
Kangaroo mother care had a protective effect on the volume of brain structures in young adults born preterm	15
Sudden cardiac death in childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is best predicted by a combination of electrocardiogram risk‐score and HCMRisk‐Kids score	15
Prevalence of overweight and obesity from 5 to 19 years of age in Gothenburg, Sweden	15
The history, physiology and treatment safety of growth hormone	15
COVID‐19 and Down syndrome	15
The good, the bad and the ugly of children´s screen time during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
An overview of smell and taste problems in paediatric COVID‐19 patients	15
Paediatric patients report lower health‐related quality of life in daily clinical practice compared to new normative PedsQLTM data	15
Is it fair to simply tell parents to use their phones less? A qualitative analysis of parent phone use	15
Birth weight increases with birth order despite decreasing maternal pregnancy weight gain	15
A COVID‐19 outbreak's lesson: Best use of the paediatric emergency department	14
Metabolic bone disease of prematurity—National survey of current neonatal and paediatric endocrine approaches	14
New‐onset celiac disease in children during COVID‐19 pandemic	14
Providing children with COVID‐19 vaccinations is challenging due to lack of data and wide‐ranging parental acceptance	14
A scoping review of cognition in spina bifida and its consequences for activity and participation throughout life	14
Pills to think about in allergic rhinitis children during COVID‐19 era	14
Improving the uptake of Kangaroo Mother Care in neonatal units: A narrative review and conceptual framework	14
Average 2.5‐year neurodevelopmental test results in children born very preterm did not rule out cognitive deficits at 6.5 years of age	14
Genetics and pathophysiology of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis	14
The Coping with and Caring for Infants with Special Needs intervention was associated with improved motor development in preterm infants	14
COVID‐19 is milder in children possibly due to cross‐immunity	14
Systematic review and meta‐analysis found that malnutrition was associated with poor cognitive development	14
Observed reduction in the diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children during the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
Birth outcomes between 22 and 26 weeks' gestation in national population‐based cohorts from Sweden, England and France	14
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Non‐immune hydrops fetalis was rare in Sweden during 1997‐2015, but cases were associated with complications and poor prognosis	14
Hyperinflammation: On the pathogenesis and treatment of macrophage activation syndrome	13
aEEG as a useful tool for neuromonitoring in critically ill children – Current evidence and knowledge gaps	13
A cross‐sectional magnetic resonance imaging study of factors influencing growth plate closure in adolescents and young adults	13
Prader‐Willi Syndrome in children: Quality of life and caregiver burden	13
SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies started to decline just four months after COVID‐19 infection in a paediatric population	13
Duration of mechanical ventilation and prediction of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and home oxygen in extremely preterm infants	13
Children’s exposure to psychological abuse and neglect: A population‐based study in rural Bangladesh	13
Multi‐centre study showed reduced compliance with the World Health Organization recommendations on exclusive breastfeeding during COVID‐19	13
Underutilisation of psychiatric care among refugee adolescents in Stockholm	12
Clinical benefits of music‐based interventions on preterm infants' health: A systematic review of randomised trials	12
A narrative review with practical advice on how to decrease pain and distress during venepuncture and peripheral intravenous cannulation	12
Effect of COVID‐19 pandemic on treatment of Type 1 diabetes in children	12
The respiratory consequences of COVID‐19 lasted for a median of 4 months in a cohort of children aged 2–18 years of age	12
Incidence rate of MIS‐C in paediatrics: A good reason to vaccinate children against SARS‐CoV‐2	12
Impact of COVID‐19 epidemics in paediatric morbidity and utilisation of Hospital Paediatric Services in Italy	12
Vaccinating children and adolescents against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)—The Israeli experience	12
Home phototherapy of term neonates improves parental bonding and stress: Findings from a randomised controlled trial	12
Acute kidney injury in infants with hypothermia‐treated hypoxic‐ischaemic encephalopathy: An observational population‐based study	12
Social distancing during the COVID‐19 pandemic resulted in a marked decrease in hospitalisations for bronchiolitis	12
Multi‐drug resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae among children in rural Vietnam more than doubled from 1999 to 2014	11
Delayed presentation of children to the emergency department during the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic in Italy: Area‐based cohort study	11
Changes in the vocal qualities of mothers and fathers are related to preterm infant's behavioural states	11
Austrian study shows that delays in accessing acute paediatric health care outweighed the risks of COVID‐19	11
The incidence of birth injuries decreased in Finland between 1997 and 2017: A nationwide register study	11
Neurodevelopmental problems and quality of life in 6‐year‐olds with a history of developmental language disorder	11
COVID‐19 in children and the effect of schools reopening on potential transmission to household members	11
A systematic review of hormone treatment for children with gender dysphoria and recommendations for research	11

Benign course and clinical features of COVID‐19 in hospitalised febrile infants up to 60 days old	11
Perinatal inflammation relates to early respiratory morbidity and lung function at 12 years of age in children born very preterm	11
Growth assessment of children during the COVID‐19 pandemic—Can we rely on parental measurements?	11
Systematic review showed that low and moderate prenatal alcohol and nicotine exposure affected early child development	11
Cognitive profiles of extremely preterm children: Full‐Scale IQ hides strengths and weaknesses	11
Music therapy for preterm neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit: An overview of systematic reviews	11
Generation COVID‐19 – Should the foetus be worried?	11
A systematic review of using flexible bronchoscopy to remove foreign bodies from paediatric patients	11
More research is needed on the long‐term effects of COVID‐19 on children and adolescents	11
Less obesity but higher inequalities in Portuguese children: Trends of childhood obesity between 2002–2016	11
Renal length z‐score for the detection of dysfunction in children with solitary functioning kidney	11
Neurodevelopmental outcomes of a randomised trial of intact cord resuscitation	10
Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review	10
Propofol in neonates causes a dose‐dependent profound and protracted decrease in blood pressure	10
Preterm birth rates were slightly lower in Denmark during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic compared with the previous 4 years	10
Vaccination coverage of children with chronic diseases is inadequate especially for specifically recommended vaccines	10
Guideline for referring short or tall children in preventive child health care	10
Review: Neonatal dialysis is technically feasible but ethical and global issues need to be addressed	10
Multicentre study found that adherence to national antibiotic recommendations for neonatal early‐onset sepsis was low	10
Impact of an extended postnatal home visiting programme on oral health among children in a disadvantaged area of Stockholm, Sweden	10
Children with neonatal Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE) treated with therapeutic hypothermia are not as school ready as their peers	10
Child physical abuse, declining trend in prevalence over 10 years in Sweden	10
Observational study found that skin‐to‐skin contact was not common after vaginal birth in Saudi Arabia	10
Review highlights the importance of donor human milk being available for very low birth weight infants	10
Seizures may be an early sign of acute COVID‐19, and the Omicron variant could present a more epileptogenic profile	10
Immediate skin‐to‐skin contact after birth ensures stable thermoregulation in very preterm infants in high‐resource settings	10
Late bedtime and body mass index gain in indigenous Australian children in the longitudinal study of indigenous children	10
Limited resources restrict the provision of adequate neonatal respiratory care in the countries of Africa	10
Body mass index trajectories up to preschool age in a multi‐ethnic population; relations with maternal gestational diabetes, BMI and gestational weight gain	10
National cohort of infants born before 24 gestational weeks showed increased survival rates but no improvement in neonatal morbidity	10
Risk of long Covid in children infected with Omicron or pre‐Omicron SARS‐CoV‐2 variants	10
Closing Finnish schools and day care centres had a greater impact on primary care than secondary care emergency department visits	10
Children’s mental health and recreation: Limited evidence for associations with screen use	9
Six‐minute walk distance equation in children and adolescents with obesity	9
The importance of low HbA1c during childhood on glycaemic control in adulthood and the risk of late complications	9
The psychophysical impact that COVID‐19 has on children must not be underestimated	9
Comparative study shows that 1 in 7 Spanish children with COVID‐19 symptoms were still experiencing issues after 12 weeks	9
Re‐evaluation of abusive head trauma in Norway appears flawed	9
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Systematic review suggests a relationship between moderate to late preterm birth and early childhood caries	9
A nationwide questionnaire survey on accidental magnet ingestion in children in Japan	9
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 3 months of life may reduce the risk of respiratory allergies and some asthma in children at the age of 6 years	9
Adenovirus can be a serious, life‐threatening disease, even in previously healthy children	9
National data showed an increased prevalence of overweight and obesity among four‐year‐old Swedish children during the first year of COVID‐19	9
The challenge to define the optimal prophylactic regimen for vitamin K deficiency bleeding in infants	9
Usability and acceptability of a multimodal respiratory rate and pulse oximeter device in case management of children with symptoms of pneumonia: A cross‐sectional study in Ethiopia	9
Neurobehaviour of very preterm infants at term equivalent age is related to early childhood outcomes	9
Ethnicity, gender and seasonal variations all play a role in vitamin D deficiency	9
Symptoms of problematic feeding in infants under 1 year of age undergoing frenotomy: A review article	9
Association between circulating furin levels, obesity and pro‐inflammatory markers in children	9
Health needs of accompanied refugee and asylum‐seeking children in a UK specialist clinic	9
Paediatric ethical issues during the COVID‐19 pandemic are not just about ventilator triage	9
Swiss neonatal caregivers express diverging views on parental involvement in shared decision‐making for extremely premature infants	9
When all I wanted was to hold my baby—The experiences of parents of infants who received therapeutic hypothermia	9
Swedish survey of infant sleep practices showed increased bed‐sharing and positive associations with breastfeeding	9
The type and timing of patent ductus arteriosus treatment was associated with neurodevelopment when extremely preterm infants reached 6.5 years	9
Associations of preterm birth, small‐for‐gestational age, preeclampsia and placental abruption with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the offspring: Nationwide cohort and sibling‐controlled	9
The causal effect of being born extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight on neurodevelopment and social‐emotional development at 2 years	9
High prevalence of neurodevelopmental problems in adolescents eligible for bariatric surgery for severe obesity	9
Complementary bottles during the first month and risk of cow’s milk allergy in breastfed infants	9
HbA1c and BMI after lockdown for COVID‐19 in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus	9
Newborn infants who received skin‐to‐skin contact with fathers after Caesarean sections showed stable physiological patterns	9
Glomerular filtration and shrunken pore syndrome in children and adults	9
Necrotising enterocolitis–A 15‐year outcome report from a UK specialist centre	8
Low false‐positive rate of perfusion index as a screening tool for neonatal aortic coarctation	8
Lithium use during breastfeeding was safe in healthy full‐term infants under strict monitoring	8
Norwegian parents avoid placing infants in prone sleeping positions but frequently share beds in hazardous ways	8
Vital sign‐based detection of sepsis in neonates using machine learning	8
Three‐fold increase in admissions for paediatric febrile convulsions during COVID‐19 pandemic could indicate alternative virus symptoms	8
Age‐ and sex‐specific prevalence of serious bacterial infections in febrile infants ≤60 days, in Sweden	8
Placental histology predicted adverse outcomes in extremely premature neonates in Norway—population‐based study	8
Preeclampsia was a risk factor for pulmonary interstitial emphysema in preterm infants born ≤32 weeks of gestational age	8
Exploring functional metabolites in preterm infants	8
Pulmonary haemorrhage in neonates: Systematic review of management	8
Air pollution exposure impairs lung function in infants	8
Generation Pep Study: A population‐based survey on diet and physical activity in 12,000 Swedish children and adolescents	8
Prescribing in a paediatric emergency: A PERUKI survey of prescribing and resuscitation aids	8
The Quadratic‐Exponential‐Pubertal‐Stop model is valid for analysing human growth patterns and developing novel growth references	8
Screen use relates to decreased offline enrichment activities	8
Randomised oral stimulation and exclusive breastfeeding duration in healthy premature infants	8
Development level of the country of parental origin on dental caries in children of immigrant parents in Sweden	8
Primary immunodeficiencies, autoimmune hyperthyroidism, coeliac disease and systemic lupus erythematosus in childhood immune thrombocytopenia	8
Diagnosis of COVID‐19 infection in children: Less nasopharyngeal swabs, more saliva	8
Secular trend and social variation in height of Polish schoolchildren between 1966 and 2012	8
Retinal haemorrhage in infants investigated for suspected maltreatment is strongly correlated with intracranial pathology	8
Multi‐inflammatory syndrome and Kawasaki disease in children during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A nationwide register‐based study and time series analysis	8
Metabolic responses in neonatal sepsis—A systematic review of human metabolomic studies	8
Neonatal early‐onset sepsis calculator recommended significantly less empiric antibiotic treatment than national guidelines	8
Environmental determinants of human milk composition in relation to health outcomes	8
Child Health Nurses' experiences of addressing psychosocial risk factors with the families they meet	8
National Swedish survey showed that child health services and routine immunisation programmes were resilient during the early COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Tablets, toddlers and tantrums: The immediate effects of tablet device play	8
Hypothermic treatment for neonatal asphyxia in low‐resource settings using phase‐changing material—An easy to use and low‐cost method	8
The Silverman Andersen respiratory severity score in the delivery room predicts subsequent intubation in very preterm neonates	8
Systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association between paediatric obesity and telomere length	8