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How do medical researchers make causal inferences? [PDF]
, 2019 Bradford Hill (1965) highlighted nine aspects of the complex evidential situation a medical researcher faces when determining whether a causal relation exists between a disease and various conditions associated with it.
Dammann, Olaf +2 more
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Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.Early‐life intake of nutritional additives, particularly during pregnancy and the early postnatal period, reduces the risk of Helicobacter pylori infection (HPI) in children by enhancing immune function and preventing gastrointestinal infections through proper nutrition, supporting the “(Pre‐)Fetal origins of HPI” hypothesis through the “gut–uterine ...
Chan Lu +5 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2014 Nicotine, the most important neuroteratogen of tobacco smoke, can reproduce brain and cognitive disturbances per se when administered prenatally. However, it is still unknown if paracrine signaling among brain cells participates in prenatal nicotine ...
Juan Andrés Orellana +6 more
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CONSEQUENCES OF PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL EXPOSURE TO PASSIVE SMOKING ON CHILDREN [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2008 Passive tobacco smoking is responsible for the prenatal and postnatal negative health effects on children. The consequences of maternal smoking during pregnancy included: placenta alterations, intrauterine growth retardations, low birth weight ...
Voichița Hurgoiu
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In utero and childhood polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) exposures and neurodevelopment in the CHAMACOS study. [PDF]
, 2013 BackgroundCalifornia children's exposures to polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants (PBDEs) are among the highest worldwide. PBDEs are known endocrine disruptors and neurotoxicants in animals.ObjectiveHere we investigate the relation of in utero ...
Bradman, Asa +8 more
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Ultrasound in Obstetrics &Gynecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate alterations in fetal cardiac function in pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction (FGR) by synthesizing evidence on myocardial performance index (MPI) and its constituent parameters for both the left and right ventricles.
A. Sirico +4 more
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World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) and asthma (AS) comorbidity (AR + AS) is increasing and is associated with severe allergic symptoms. The impact of cat dander sensitization on AR + AS remains unclear. Methods In this retrospective study, 1154 patients with AR alone and 213 patients with AR + AS were enrolled at the Third ...
Wei‐Hao Wang +5 more
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Advances in research on prenatal tobacco exposure and allergic diseases in children
Xin yixueAllergic diseases are chronic inflammatory disorders triggered by the interaction of genetic predisposition and environmental factors, significantly impacting child health.
Yu LONG, Yuxia CUI
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In utero exposure to cigarette smoking, environmental tobacco smoke and reproductive hormones in US girls approaching puberty [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND/AIMS: Evidence is unclear whether prenatal smoking affects age at menarche and pubertal development, and its impact upon hormones has not been well studied. We aim to identify potential pathways through which prenatal smoking and environmental
Addo, O. Yaw +5 more
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To examine retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) characteristics in relation to prenatal and postnatal smoking exposure in three independent birth cohorts: two Danish and one Australian cohort. Methods A combined meta‐analysis of peripapillary retinal nerve fibre thickness in the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood 2000 ...
Linna Zhu +8 more
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