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Emerging Early Life Environmental Exposures and Lung DevelopmentIn this review article we systematically summarize the evidence for an impact on lung development of 1) maternal ingestion of arsenic contaminated drinking...
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Vitamin D deficiency and the lung: Disease initiator or disease modifier?Vitamin D deficiency is a global public health problem and has been associated with an increased incidence and severity of many diseases including diseases...
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Hospitalisation for bronchiolitis in infants is more common after elective caesarean deliveryThe authors previously reported an increased risk of hospitalisation for acute lower respiratory infection up to age 2 years in children delivered by...
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Th2-associated immunity to bacteria in asthma in teenagers and susceptibility to asthmaBacterial colonisation of the airways is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma
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Genetic susceptibility to otitis media in childhoodReviewed in this article these studies have identified positive association at 21 genes with association at five of these replicated in independent populations.
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FBXO11, a regulator of the TGFΒ pathway, is associated with severe otitis media in Western Australian childrenOtitis media (OM) is a common childhood disease characterised by middle ear inflammation following infection
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P2X7 receptor-mediated killing of an intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, by human and murine macrophagesThe P2X7R is highly expressed on the macrophage cell surface, and activation of infected cells by extracellular ATP has been shown to kill intracellular bacte
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Privacy or public good? Why not obtaining consent may be best practiceUsing medical and other data from private citizens without obtaining the consent of those citizens has been a taboo of statisticians and of society
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Aboriginal practitioners speak out: contextualising child protection interventionsThis paper reports on how the summit was designed and on some of the ideas and concerns that emerged within this dialogical space of cooperative inquiry.
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Smoking status, mental disorders and emotional and behavioural problems in young peopleTo examine the relationship between smoking behaviour, mental disorders and emotional and behavioural problems in a nationally representative sample of young pe