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The case for global investment in rheumatic heart-disease controlThe review built a case for extending simple and cost–effective measures to all countries. Had these recommendations been put into action, significant...
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Hospital costs of multiple-birth and singleton-birth children during the first 5 years of life and the role of assisted reproductive technologyThe objective was to conduct a comprehensive economic and health services assessment of the frequency, duration, and cost of hospital admissions during the...
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Children with chronic suppurative lung disease have a reduced capacity to synthesize interferon-gamma in vitro in response to non-typeable Haemophilus influenzaeThe aim of this study was to identify features of innate, cell-mediated and humoral immunity that may increase susceptibility to respiratory infections in...
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Pregnancy outcomes of mothers with an alcohol-related diagnosis: A population-based cohort study for the period 1983-2007Infants of mothers with an alcohol-related diagnosis [International Classification of Disease (ICD), 9th/10th revisions] recorded on WA health data sets...
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Child Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Co morbidities on Family Stress: Effect of MedicationWe examined the degree of parental and child mental health in a community sample of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and the...
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What did we learn from two decades of chest computed tomography in cystic fibrosis?Despite our current treatment, many cystic fibrosis (CF) patients still show progressive bronchiectasis and small airways disease.
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Risk factors for low receptive vocabulary abilities in the preschool and early school years in the longitudinal study of Australian childrenReceptive vocabulary development is a component of the human language system that emerges in the first year of life and is characterised by onward expansion...
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Myopia in Young Adults Is Inversely Related to an Objective Marker of Ocular Sun Exposure: The Western Australian Raine Cohort StudyIn this young adult population, myopic refractive error was inversely associated with objectively measured ocular sun exposure, even after adjustment for...
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Pelvic organ prolapse surgery in Western Australia: A population-based analysis of trends and peri-operative complicationsWe investigated changes over time in the demographic characteristics of women undergoing surgery and whether the presence of selected concomitant procedures...
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Late language emergence in 24-month-old twins: Heritable and increased risk for late language emergence in twinsThis study investigated the etiology of late language emergence (LLE) in 24-month-old twins, considering possible twinning, zygosity, gender, and...