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Fecal calprotectin levels are higher in rural than in urban Chinese infants and negatively associated with growth

BACKGROUND: Fecal calprotectin (FC) is an established simple biomarker of gut inflammation. To examine a possible relationship between linear growth and gut inflammation, we compared fecal calprotectin levels in 6 month old infants from poor rural vs affluent urban families. METHODS: The project was...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jin-Rong, Sheng, Xiao-Yang, Hu, Yan-Qi, Yu, Xiao-Gang, Westcott, Jamie E, Miller, Leland V, Krebs, Nancy F, Hambidge, K Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22917269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-129