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Dog walking is associated with more outdoor play and independent mobility for childrenIt is plausible that dog-facilitated activity rather than dog ownership per se encourages children's physical activity behaviors.
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Pediatric sepsis in the developing world.Sepsis is the leading killer of children worldwide, but this is not reflected in estimates of global mortality.
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Nutritional approaches for the primary prevention of allergic disease: An updateThe dramatic rise in early childhood allergic diseases indicates the specific vulnerability of the immune system to early life environmental changes.
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Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancyIn this paper we conduct a genome-wide screen and follow-up study of expressive vocabulary in toddlers of European descent from up to four studies of the...
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Confirmation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Variants, ARID5B and IKZF1, and interaction with parental environmental exposuresThe polygenic nature of childhood ALL predisposition together with the timing of environmental triggers may hold vital clues for disease etiology.
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Anti-infective proteins in breast milk and asthma-associated phenotypes during early childhoodThe impact of breast milk feeding on susceptibility to asthma in childhood is highly controversial, due in part to failure of the majority of studies in the...
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Diagnostic work-up of neurological syndromes in a rural African setting: Knowledge, Attitudes and practices of health care providersThis publication documented health care provider knowledge, attitudes and practices related to this syndrome in two rural health zones in Bandundu Province,...
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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies novel loci that influence cupping and the glaucomatous processHere, the International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium conducts a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of vertical cup-disc ratio (VCDR), an...
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The reliability of an adolescent dietary pattern identified using reduced-rank regressionThe aim of the present study was to compare DP identified using the RRR method in a FFQ with those in a 3 d food record (FR).
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Lack of replication for the myosin-18B association with mathematical ability in independent cohortsTwin studies indicate that dyscalculia (or mathematical disability) is caused partly by a genetic component, which is yet to be understood at the molecular...