The increase in childhood allergic disease in recent decades has coincided with increased folic acid intakes during pregnancy. Circulating unmetabolized folic acid (UMFA) has been proposed as a biomarker of excessive folic acid intake. We aimed to determine if late-pregnancy serum UMFA and total folate concentrations were associated with allergic disease risk in the offspring at 1 y of age in a population at high risk of allergy. ...

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Globally and even in high-income countries where a balanced diet is generally accessible, an inadequate maternal micronutrient status is common ...

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• 2019
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Kefyalew Alene KA BSc, MPH, PhD Head, Geospatial and Tuberculosis 0404705064 Kefyalew.alene@telethonkids.org.au Honorary Research Fellow Dr Kefyalew ...

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The infant simulator-based Virtual Infant Parenting programme did not achieve its aim of reducing teenage pregnancy ...

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Mothers of a child with autism spectrum disorder have more psychiatric disorders after the birth of their child. ...

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Researchers have developed Australia’s first comprehensive guidelines for clinical and community services supporting LGBTQA+ youth. ...

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Adolescents with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) often need to undertake self-management tasks in public or disclose their diagnosis to others. Therefore, they may be subjected to negative reactions from the public, known as enacted stigma. ...

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Individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) often have excessive daytime sleepiness and emotional/behavioral disturbances. The objective of this study was to examine whether daytime sleepiness was associated with these emotional/behavioral problems, independent of nighttime sleep-disordered breathing, or the duration of sleep. ...

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The Telethon Kids Institute's Professor Carol Bower is not surprised by new research that shows alcohol use in pregnancy is 'common'. ...

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Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of... ...

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