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January 1, 2023
Assessment of a child's weight and linear growth can be the first clue to an underlying medical problem and should be a critical component of each visit to the pediatrician. Several factors influence growth, including maternal-fetal health during pregnancy ...
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January 1, 2019
In 1936, Sir Harold Himsworth, professor of medicine at the University of London, distinguished type 1 diabetes (“insulin-sensitive”) and type 2 diabetes (“insulin-insensitive”). Type 2 diabetes (T2D) was thought to only affect adults and was not included ...
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January 1, 2018
Thyroid hormone is critical to fetal and neonatal neurodevelopment. The tight control of fetal exposure to thyroid hormone begins early in gestation, as the placental thyroid hormone transporters facilitate passage of maternal thyroxine into fetal blood. W ...
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