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Mariam Ischander
Researcher at Western Michigan University
Publications - 13
Citations - 269
Mariam Ischander is an academic researcher from Western Michigan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cystic fibrosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 11 publications receiving 228 citations. Previous affiliations of Mariam Ischander include University of California, Irvine & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Air pollution and type 1 diabetes in children
TL;DR: This study explores the quantitative role of exposure to specific air pollutants in the development of type 1 diabetes in children and finds that exposure to certain air pollutants increases the risk of diabetes in young children.
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Physical activity, growth, and inflammatory mediators in BMI-matched female adolescents.
Mariam Ischander,Frank Zaldivar,Alon Eliakim,Eliezer Nussbaum,Genevieve F. Dunton,Szu-Yun Leu,Dan M. Cooper,Margaret Schneider +7 more
TL;DR: In adolescent girls, the choice of a lifestyle involving high school sports is characterized by a circulating mediator and body composition pattern that, if sustained, is associated with generally lower long-term risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
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Expanding the phenotype of mutations in DICER1: mosaic missense mutations in the RNase IIIb domain of DICER1 cause GLOW syndrome
Steven D Klein,Hane Lee,Shahnaz Ghahremani,Pamela Kempert,Mariam Ischander,Mariam Ischander,Michael A. Teitell,Stanley F. Nelson,Julian A. Martinez-Agosto +8 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that mutations affecting the metal binding sites of the DICER1 RNase IIIb domain alter the balance of 3p and 5p microRNAs leading to deregulation of these growth signalling pathways, causing a novel human overgrowth syndrome.
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Update in Pediatric Asthma: Selected Issues
Roua Azmeh,Donald E. Greydanus,Marisha Agana,Cheryl A Dickson,Dilip R. Patel,Mariam Ischander,Robert D. Lloyd +6 more
TL;DR: A stepwise approach to asthma management is discussed that includes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies in the pediatric population and the role of immunotherapy and use of various immunomodulators are considered.
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Desquamative interstitial pneumonia in a child related to cigarette smoke
TL;DR: Histopathology examination of the video‐assisted thoracoscopic biopsy of his lungs showed a desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP)‐like pattern that resembled that of adult smokers with the same disease, the first case of cigarette smoke‐related DIP reported in a child.