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Screening for rheumatic heart disease: Quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workersAfter brief training, health workers with no prior experience in echocardiography can obtain adequate quality images and make a reliable assessment
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Chronic illness and developmental vulnerability at school entryChronic illness in young children is a risk factor for reduced school readiness
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Alpha-1 antitrypsin mitigates the inhibition of airway epithelial cell repair by neutrophil elastaseFree NE activity is deleterious for epithelial homeostasis and support the hypothesis that proteases in the airway contribute to CF structural lung disease
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Rapid recruitment of CD14+ monocytes in experimentally induced allergic rhinitis in human subjectsMononuclear phagocyte population is directly involved in the production of proinflammatory chemokines that attract other immune cells
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Adverse metabolic phenotype of adolescent girls with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease plus polycystic ovary syndrome compared with other girls and boysNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) share risk associations of adiposity and insulin resistance.
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Strabismus, a preventable barrier to social participation: A short reportIsolated strabismus does not significantly impair visual functionality and has traditionally been considered a primarily cosmetic defect of little importance.
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Associations between school absence and academic achievement: Do socioeconomics matter?School attendance should therefore be a priority for all schools, and not just those with high rates of absence or low average achievement.
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Changes in the clinical and epidemiological features of group A streptococcal bacteraemia in Australia's Northern TerritoryThis study adds to emerging data suggesting increasing importance of iGAS in low- and middle-income settings globally.
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The gut microbiota and inflammatory noncommunicable diseases: Associations and potentials for gut microbiota therapiesThis article discusses the relationships between gut colonization & inflammatory noncommunicable diseases, in regards to their treatment and prevention.
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Maternal Psychiatric Disorder and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability in Subsequent OffspringThis study adds to existing evidence that the rate of pre-existing psychiatric disorders in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder is higher than...