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Prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in a nationally representative sample of Australian adolescents and young adultsVitamin D deficiency is a public health concern worldwide. Maintaining vitamin D sufficiency during growth periods is essential. We aimed to determine the prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in Australian adolescents and young adults.
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Content validation of the Quality of Life Inventory—DisabilitySatisfactory content validity is reported, where ongoing consumer feedback shaped the dataset from which the final items were selected
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Improvement in Psychosocial Outcomes in Children with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents Following Subsidy for Continuous Glucose MonitoringIntroduction of subsidized CGM showed early improvement in psychosocial and glycemic outcomes in patients and their families in Western Australia
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Choosing primary endpoints for clinical trials of health care interventionsThis narrative review describes the evolution, range and relative strengths and weaknesses of endpoints used in late phase trials
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Coffee and tea consumption during pregnancy and risk of childhood acute myeloid leukemia: A Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC) studyWe investigated the potential association of maternal coffee and tea consumption during pregnancy with childhood acute myeloid leukemia risk
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Sun-immune connectionExposure to ultraviolet radiation damages skin cell DNA but skin cancers develop because ultraviolet radiation also affects the immune system
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Availability and administration of benzathine penicillin G for the prevention of rheumatic fever in Africa: Report of the Working Group on PenicillinBenzathine penicillin G availability should be addressed and African health workers’ knowledge and practices need to be augmented
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Paediatric asylum seekers in Western Australia: Identification of adversity and complex needs through comprehensive refugee health assessmentPaediatric asylum seekers have complex trauma backgrounds with exposure to multiple adverse events within disrupted family units
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An assessment of computer-generated stimuli for use in studies of body size estimation and biasOur results show that perception of body size for computer-generated stimuli was non-linear
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Corynebacterium and Dolosigranulum: Future probiotic candidates for upper respiratory tract infectionsWe recently identified C. pseudodiphtheriticum and D. pigrum as the major nasopharyngeal species associated with resistance to recurrent ear infections