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The burden of rotavirus-related illness among young children on the Australian health care systemTo provide estimates of the annual number and cost of hospital admissions, emergency department (ED) visits and general practitioner (GP) visits...
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Representativeness of child controls recruited by random digit diallingRecruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies
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Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung functionPulmonary function measures reflect respiratory health and are used in the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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The hygiene hypothesis revisited: role of materno-fetal interactionsFor 20 years, the hygiene hypothesis has dominated attempts to explain the increasing prevalence of allergic disease. A causal link between maternal innate immu
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Decreased fibronectin production significantly contributes to dysregulated repair of asthmatic epitheliumIn human asthma, and experimental allergic airways disease in mice, antigen-presenting cells and CD4(+) effector cells at the airway mucosa orchestrate, and CD4
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Health professionals addressing alcohol use with pregnant women in Western AustraliaHealth professionals have an important role to play in preventing prenatal alcohol exposure
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UV inhibits allergic airways disease in mice by reducing effector CD4 T cellsIn human asthma, and experimental allergic airways disease in mice, antigen-presenting cells and CD4(+) effector cells at the airway mucosa orchestrate, and CD4
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Bacterial strain-specific induction of Foxp3+ T regulatory cells is protective in murine allergy modelsThe incidence of atopic disease has increased dramatically during recent decades and the potential immunoregulatory influence of the microbiota in these...
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Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesityIt is remarkably difficult for people with obesity to maintain a new lower weight following weight loss.
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Dietary patterns and markers for the metabolic syndrome in Australian adolescentsOverweight and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) as well as their clustering, are increasingly prevalent among adolescents.