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Role of apolipoprotein E4 in protecting children against early childhood diarrhea outcomes and implications for later development.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2007
Oriá Reinaldo B, Patrick Peter D, Blackman James A, Lima Aldo A M, Guerrant Richard L
Abstract excerpt
Our group and others have reported a series of studies showing that heavy burdens of diarrheal diseases in the formative first two years of life in children in urban shantytowns have profound consequences of impaired physical and cognitive development lasting into later childhood and schooling. Based on these previous studies showing that apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) is relatively common in favela children, we...
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