Release notice – The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program 2018 Results

摘要

The Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (CPSP) conducts active, national child health surveillance that monitors rare or emerging diseases and conditions that are of public health importance.This annual report summarizes the program’s studies and one-time surveys carried out in 2018. Full studies examined type 2 diabetes, medication-induced diabetes and monogenic diabetes; serious and life-threatening events associated with non-medical (recreational) cannabis use in children and youth; medically serious self-harm in youth requiring Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission; severe microcephaly; congenital Zika syndrome in infants; severe obesity and global developmental delay in preschool children; acute flaccid paralysis (polio); adverse drug reactions; Pompe disease; complex regional pain syndrome; ophthalmia neonatorum; and Rh sensitization.