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Environmental Factors in Children's Asthma and Respiratory Effects

Asthma is more common in childhood than in adulthood and is more correctly thought of as a syndrome than as a discrete condition.

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Novel CT domain-encoding splice forms of CTGF/CCN2 are expressed in B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) has been shown previously to be aberrantly expressed in a high proportion of paediatric precursor B cell acute...

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PRAGMA-CF. A Quantitative Structural Lung Disease Computed Tomography Outcome in Young Children with Cystic Fibrosis

Chest computed tomography (CT) is the gold standard for demonstrating cystic fibrosis (CF) airway disease. However, there are no standardized outcome...

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The pet factor - Companion animals as a conduit for getting to know people, friendship formation and social support

Pet owners were significantly more likely to get to know people in their neighborhood than non-pet owners.

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Risk factors for decline in IQ in youth with type 1 diabetes over the 12 years from diagnosis/illness onset

This study examined illness-related change in intelligence quotient (IQ) in a cohort of youth with type 1 diabetes studied prospectively from disease onset...

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Does aetiology of neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy influence the outcome of treatment?

Neonatal encephalopathy, a clinical syndrome affecting term-born and late preterm newborn infants, increases the risk of perinatal death...

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A western dietary pattern is associated with poor academic performance in Australian adolescents

The aim of this study was to investigate cross-sectional associations between dietary patterns and academic performance among 14-year-old adolescents.

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Biomarkers in paediatric Cystic Fibrosis lung disease

Biomarkers in cystic fibrosis are used for the measurement of cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator function in order to diagnose cystic fibrosis,...

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Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990-2013

We generated updated estimates of child mortality in various age groups for 188 countries from 1970 to 2013.

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The clinical and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus infections in Fiji

We observed S. aureus infections in Fiji in both community and hospital settings with an emphasis on clonal complex genotyping and antimicrobial susceptibility.