Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is a leading cause of global mortality, often associated with high blood levels of LDL cholesterol (LDL-c). Medications like statins and PCSK9 inhibitors, are used to manage LDL-c levels and reduce ASCVD risk. Recent findings connect the gut microbiota and its metabolites to ASCVD development. ...

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A new research project aims to demonstrate how influenza vaccination in children could be a highly cost-effective health care intervention in Australia. ...

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Next steps Did you know? Further studies are needed to determine how to predict which kids will benefit the most from this intervention, and to ...

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Amy Penelope Yael Zoe Larissa Finlay-Jones Strauss Perry Waters Marion AFJ PS YP ZW LM BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) ...

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To assess the effects of topical antibiotics for people with chronic suppurative otitis media. ...

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Debbie Susan Palmer Prescott D SL BSc BND PhD MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP Head, Early Life & Life-Course Health Program; Team Lead, Nutrition in Early ...

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Surgical intervention is an important treatment modality for advanced rheumatic heart disease (RHD). This study aimed to describe patient characteristics and outcomes from cardiac surgery for RHD in patients referred to the only tertiary paediatric hospital in Western Australia.  ...

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Debbie Susan Palmer Prescott D SL BSc BND PhD MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP Head, Early Life & Life-Course Health Program; Team Lead, Nutrition in Early ...

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Showed for the first time that the presence of an egg-derived allergen in breast milk is associated with a reduced risk of egg allergy in children at 2.5 years of age ...

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Maternal resistant starch consumption was differentially associated with infant phenotypes, with reduced risk of infant wheeze, but increased risk of eczema ...

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