Group B streptococcus (GBS) is an important cause of early- and late-onset sepsis in the newborn. Preterm infants have markedly increased susceptibility... ...

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• 2011
• April 2011

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 Life Honorary Research Fellow debbie.palmer@uwa.edu.au susan.prescott@telethonkids.org.au Head, Early ...

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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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• 2019
• August 2019

We emphasize that barriers to planetary health and the clinical application of lifestyle medicine are maintaining an unhealthy status quo ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

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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• 2020
• June 2020

Early life innate immune dysfunction may represent a key immunological driver and predictor of persistent food allergy in childhood ...

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• 2018
• September 2018

Supplementation with n-3 LCPUFA in infancy revealed a reduction in waist circumference at 5 years ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

Maternal n-3 LCPUFA supplementation did not provide sustained effects on postnatal oxidative stress and telomere length as observed in the offspring ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

When an infant is developmentally ready, a variety of nutritious foods should be introduced including the ‘more allergenic’ foods during infancy ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains the most common cause of severe lower respiratory tract disease amongst infants, and continues to cause annual epidemics of respiratory disease every winter worldwide. ...

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• 2017
• April 2017

With a focus on the microbiome as it pertains to mental health, we define environmental “grey space” and emphasize a new frontier involving bio-eco-psychological medicine ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

In this review we examine maternal and infant dietary sources of prebiotics with a particular focus on non-digestible oligosaccharides, which undergo SCFA. ...

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• 2018
• January 2018