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Should strategies to tackle childhood obesity also focus on mental health? [PDF]
Childhood obesity continues to be a concern in the UK as in many other countries. Although there has been a ‘levelling off’ of BMI recorded through the National Childhood Measurement Programme in recent years the upward trend continues in older and more ...
Lewis, Kiara, MacKenzie, Abi
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Childhood Maltreatment and BMI Trajectories to Mid-Adult Life: Follow-Up to Age 50y in a British Birth Cohort. [PDF]
Childhood maltreatment including abuse and neglect has been associated with adult obesity, but evidence on life-course development of obesity or BMI gain is unclear.
Li, L, Pinto Pereira, SM, Power, C
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Economic alternatives and childhood poverty [PDF]
Current national and international economic policies are exerting ever more direct pressures on children's lives and futures. This paper reviews key concerns and contradictions in neoliberal economic policies' effects on childhood.
Alderson, Priscilla
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Brilliance of a fire: innocence, experience and the theory of childhood [PDF]
This essay offers an extensive rehabilitation and reappraisal of the concept of childhood innocence as a means of testing the boundaries of some prevailing constructions of childhood.
Baker +76 more
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Low HOX gene expression in PML-RARα-positive leukemia results from suppressed histone demethylation
Homeobox (HOX) genes are frequently dysregulated in leukemia. Previous studies have shown that aberrant HOX gene expression accompanies leukemogenesis and affects disease progression and leukemia patient survival.
Katerina Rejlova +7 more
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Childhood Health Status and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity in Rural China: Are They Related? [PDF]
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are among the top health problems of the Chinese population. Although mounting evidence suggests that early childhood health status has an enduring effect on late life chronic morbidity, no study so far has analyzed the ...
Shen, Jay, Wang, Qing
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The article analyzes literature data on modern methods of non-invasive respiratory support for premature newborns with respiratory distress syndrome.
V. E. Ryumin +4 more
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Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour in children and is a major cause of mortality and morbidity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. It has been risk-stratified on the basis of clinical (age, metastasis and extent of resection) and histological subtypes (classic, desmoplastic and anaplastic).
Naureen, Mushtaq +5 more
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Navigating the bio-politics of childhood [PDF]
Childhood research has long shared a bio-political terrain with state agencies in which children figure primarily as ‘human futures’. In the 20th century bio-social dualism helped to make that terrain navigable by researchers, but, as life processes ...
Lee, Nick, Motzkau, J.
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Background To investigate the relationship between polymorphism of scavenger receptor class B member 2 (SCARB2) gene and clinical severity of enterovirus (EV)-71 associated hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD). Methods Among the 100 recruited cases, 56 were in
Xia Wang +5 more
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