Matti Uhari

TL;DR: Risk factor profile assessed in 12- to 18-year-old adolescents predicts adult common carotid artery IMT independently of contemporaneous risk factors, suggesting that exposure to cardiovascular risk factors early in life may induce changes in arteries that contribute to the development of atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: Regular drinking of cranberry juice but not lactobacillus seems to reduce the recurrence of urinary tract infection and may reduce the need for antimicrobials for recurrent urinary tract infections.

TL;DR: Child care outside the home and parental smoking were the factors that most significantly increased the occurrence of acute otitis media.

TL;DR: An international group of multidisciplinary experts on middle-ear and paediatric infections met to explore where consensus exists on the management of acute otitis media and to propose to clinicians and public health officials their views on the actions needed to be taken to reduce the disease burden and the microbial antibiotic resistance.

TL;DR: CD45 deficiency in humans results in T- and B-lymphocyte dysfunction, and a male patient with a deficiency in CD45 due to a large deletion at one allele and a point mutation at the other is identified.