Recent Advances in Pediatric Laboratory Medicine
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Pediatric medicine that spans from the perinatal period through adolescence is a field in its own right, as it requires knowledge about early growth and development that are not present in adult medicine. Indeed, it is during these crucial years that adult health and wellbeing are being carved. This statement is supported by epidemiological studies and meta-analyses indicating that many adult diseases are grounded in early childhood from conception, and thus should be viewed as developmental disorders (1, 2). Clinical laboratories are instrumental in the detection of subtle metabolic impairment present often at the onset of ailments. Their efficacy in assisting attending physicians in their diagnostic and follow-up endeavours is intimately linked to availability of dependable analytical methods and reliable reference values. Paediatrics is particularly sensitive to this problem as rapid developmental changes associated with child growth, can impose rapid discontinuous changes on the physiology of individuals (3-5).
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