Cohort Profile: The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!)

Cohort Profile: The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!).

The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!) is an ongoing open longitudinal cohort study enrolling healthy children (from birth to 5 years of age) and following them into adolescence. The aim of the TARGet Kids! cohort is to link early life exposures to health problems including obesity, micronutrient deficiencies and developmental problems. The overarching goal is to improve the health ...

Paediatric Obesity Research in Early Childhood and the Primary Care Setting: The TARGet Kids! Research Network

Primary paediatric health care is the foundation for preventative child health. In light of the recent obesity epidemic, paediatricians find themselves at the frontline of identification and management of childhood obesity. However, it is well recognized that evidence based approaches to obesity prevention and subsequent translation of this evidence into practice are critically needed. This pap...

ICT competition for kids

The first National IT competition in Bulgaria for children from 1 to 4 grade was held during the 2006/2007 school year. The competition was held on-line at a specialized site: http://it-kids.eu. Pupils were divided into three groups according to their age. The day before the competition the students had to register on the web page. The task was coloring a picture. For example, in a network form...

Kids' Page

The heterogenous nature of breast tumours (Hawkins et al., 1977; Silfversward et al., 1980) complicates the application of oestrogen receptor assay results to the management of breast cancer. Much effort has therefore been expended on the development of histochemical assays to detect receptors in tissue sections, initially with oestrogenprotein conjugates (e.g. Pertschuk et al., 1979; Lee, 1978...

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