A study which set out to determine ways to predict the long-term lung health of young adults born very preterm has shown that a childhood history of respiratory hospital admission should be a key consideration in the management of preterm children and adults. ...

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• 2023
• May

The EU LifeCycle Project was launched in 2017 to combine, harmonise, and analyse data from more than 250,000 participants across Europe and Australia, involving cohorts participating in the EU-funded LifeCycle Project. The purpose of this cohort description is to provide a detailed overview over the major measures within mental health domains that are available in 17 European and Australian cohorts participating in the LifeCycle Project. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• November 2021

Prenatal alcohol exposure is an important modifiable cause of adverse fetal outcomes during and following pregnancy. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders which are more common in males. The 'prenatal sex steroid' hypothesis links excessive sex-steroid exposure during foetal life with the behavioural differences observed in ASD. However, the reason why sex steroid exposure may be excessive remains unclear. Epidemiological studies have identified several environmental risk factors associated with ASD, including developmental vitamin D (DVD) deficiency. ...

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• 2020
• December 2020

Identified dominant PCR-ribotypes common to geographically disparate Australian paediatric populations ...

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• 2016
• August 2016

Background Evidence relating childhood cancer to high birthweight is derived primarily from registry and case-control studies. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Recruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies ...

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• 2010
• May 2010

Increases in ASD was not only limited to advancing paternal or maternal age alone but also to differences parental age including younger or older similarly age ...

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• 2016
• May 2016

Our data provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underpinning the association of HLA-DRB1 alleles with risk versus protection in visceral leishmaniasis in humans ...

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• 2018
• April 2018

Carol Bower C MBBS MSc PhD FAFPHM DLSHTM FPHA Senior Principal Research Fellow, Alcohol and Pregnancy & FASD Research; Director, FASD Research ...

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