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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz, Ryan Cooper, Stefania Kaninia, Kathryn I. Challis, Will Greenway, Maria Bonello, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, Deborah T. Shode, Dominika Gajdasik, Victor Iliev, Alison M. E. Whitelegg, Ian Galea   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Duration of day-care attendance and acute respiratory infection

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1996
Day-care attendance accounts for an increased frequency of acute respiratory infections (ARI), in numbers of both episodes and hospitalizations. In addition to day-care exposure, risk factors include age, siblings, and crowding. The purpose of this study
Fuchs Sandra Costa, Maynart Rita de Cássia, Costa Lenara Ferreira da, Cardozo Adriana, Schierholt Rejane   +4 more
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Shaping a Healthier Generation: Successful State Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity [PDF]

, 2009
Provides an overview of the socioeconomic and environmental risk factors and costs of childhood obesity. Presents examples of state policies to prevent the epidemic by promoting healthy behaviors in child care, school, community, and healthcare ...

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Characterization of Clinical Phenotype to Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Concentrations in Alexander Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the concentration of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma in Alexander disease (AxD) and whether GFAP levels are predictive of disease phenotypes. Methods CSF and plasma were collected (longitudinally when available) from AxD participants and non‐AxD controls.
Amy T. Waldman, Asako Takanohashi, Joshua Y. Joung, Geraldine W. Liu, Kaley Arnold, Amy Pizzino, Walter Faig, Sarah Woidill, Sona Narula, Adeline L. Vanderver   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between child-care and acute diarrhea: a study in Portuguese children

Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE: To quantify the influence of the type of child-care on the occurrence of acute diarrhea with special emphasis on the effect of children grouping during care.
Henrique Barros, Nuno Lunet
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The effect of an affordable daycare program on health and economic well-being in Rajasthan, India: protocol for a cluster-randomized impact evaluation study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background The provision of affordable and reliable daycare services is a potentially important policy lever for empowering Indian women. Access to daycare might reduce barriers to labor force entry and generate economic opportunities for women, improve ...
Arijit Nandi, Shannon Maloney, Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper   +4 more
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Provision of Child Care: Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-for-Profit Day Care Centers [PDF]

This paper estimates cost functions for day care centers in Massachusetts. The production technology assumed is the generalized homothetic Cobb-Douglas production function.
Ann Dryden Witte, Sheila Hollowell, Swati Mukerjee   +2 more
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Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy due to Biallelic Pathogenic Variants in PIGM

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective PIGM encodes a critical enzyme in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchor biosynthesis pathway. While promoter‐region mutations in PIGM have been associated with a relatively mild phenotype characterized by portal vein thrombosis and absence seizures, recent evidence suggests that coding‐region mutations result in a more severe
Júlia Sala‐Coromina, Anna Marcé‐Grau, Barbara Masotto, Marta Codina, Lamia BenJemaa, Yasmina Elaribi, Mónica Martinez‐Gallo, Roger Colobran, Angel Sanchez‐Montañez, Irene Valenzuela, Yoshiko Murakami, Alfons Macaya   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

High detection rates of enteropathogens in asymptomatic children attending day care.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundGastroenteritis morbidity is high among children under the age of four, especially amongst those who attend day care.ObjectiveTo determine the prevalence of a range of enteropathogens in the intestinal flora of children attending day care and ...
Remko Enserink, Rianne Scholts, Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen, Erwin Duizer, Harry Vennema, Richard de Boer, Titia Kortbeek, Jeroen Roelfsema, Henriette Smit, Mirjam Kooistra-Smid, Wilfrid van Pelt   +10 more
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Child safety restraint use among children attending day care centers.

Revista de saude publica, 2009
OBJETIVO: Estimar la prevalencia de utilización de asientos de seguridad infantil y factores asociados. MÉTODOS: Estudio transversal observacional, con muestreo estratificado, realizado en 15 guarderías de la ciudad de Maringá (Sur de Brasil), entre los meses de marzo y mayo de 2007. Cada guardería fue visitada en sólo un día lectivo.
Oliveira, Sergio Ricardo Lopes de, Carvalho, Maria Dalva de Barros, Santana, Rosângela Getirana, Camargo, Gabriela C S, Lüders, Ludmila, Franzin, Simone   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources