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Breastfeeding and early child development: A prospective cohort study

Breastfeeding has been associated with multiple developmental advantages for the infant; however, there have also been a number of studies that find...

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Late-talking and risk for behavioural and emotional problems during childhood and adolescence

Although many toddlers with expressive vocabulary delay ("late talkers") present with age-appropriate language skills by the time they are of school age...

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Gene-vitamin D interactions on food sensitization: A prospective birth cohort study

It has been hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency (VDD) contributes to the development of food sensitization (FS) and then food allergy.

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CD4 allergen tetramers

The introduction of class II tetramers for identifying antigen-binding CD41 cells has lagged behind the use of class I tetramers because of difficulties...

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Increasing the low-glucose alarm of a continuous glucose monitoring system prevents exercise-induced hypoglycemia

The use of continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMSs) with low-glucose alarms is advocated as a means to decrease the risk of hypoglycemia in type-1 Diabetes

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Polymorphisms associated with normal memory variation also affect memory impairment in schizophrenia

Neurocognitive dysfunction is a core feature of schizophrenia with particularly prominent deficits in verbal episodic memory.

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Ndrg1 in development and maintenance of the myelin sheath

CMT4D disease is a severe autosomal recessive demyelinating neuropathy with extensive axonal loss leading to early disability

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Extent of metabolic risk in adolescent girls with features of polycystic ovary syndrome

The objective of this study was to determine prevalence of metabolic syndrome in adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

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Crowding and other strong predictors of upper respiratory tract carriage of otitis media-related

We investigated predictors of nasopharyngeal carriage in Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children.

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The over-estimation of risk in pregnancy

The concept of risk is especially salient to obstetric care. Unknown factors can still be responsible for peri-natal morbidity