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Delivery Mode, Duration of Labor, and Cord Blood Adiponectin, Leptin, and C-Reactive Protein: Results of the Population-Based Ulm Birth Cohort Studies

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Antibiotic exposure in pregnancy and risk of coeliac disease in offspring: a cohort study

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The Role of Fatty Acid Metabolites in Vaginal Health and Disease: Application to Candidiasis

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Factors associated with increased odds of cesarean delivery in ART pregnancies

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Protective environmental factors for neuromyelitis optica

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Vaginal breech delivery at term and neonatal morbidity and mortality – a population-based cohort study in Sweden

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Caesarean Section is associated with reduced perinatal cytokine response, increased risk of bacterial colonization in the airway, and infantile wheezing

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Birth by caesarean section and school performance in Swedish adolescents- a population-based study

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No. 361-Caesarean Delivery on Maternal Request

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Microbial orchestra in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: Sounds of disarray?

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Cesarean delivery and infant cortisol regulation

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Term Elective Cesarean Delivery and Offspring Infectious Morbidity

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How to reach trustworthy decisions for caesarean sections on maternal request: a call for beneficial power

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Factors affecting the early establishment of neonatal intestinal flora and its intervention measures

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Surge of immune cell formation at birth differs by mode of delivery and infant characteristics—A population-based cohort study

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Association between cesarean delivery types and obesity in preadolescence

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Preconception Care: A New Standard of Care within Maternal Health Services

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Trimester-specific association between antibiotics exposure during pregnancy and childhood asthma or wheeze: the role of confounding

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Cesarean Delivery and Body Mass Index at 6 Months and Into Childhood

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Cesarean Delivery and Childhood Malignancies: A Single-Center, Population-Based Cohort Study

Greenbaum, S., Sheiner, E., Wainstock, T., Segal, I., Ben‐Harush, M., Sergienko, R., & Walfisch, A. (2018) · The Journal of Pediatrics · doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.12.049 · Cited by 28 · see citing works

Nutri-Epigenetics and Gut Microbiota: How Birth Care, Bonding and Breastfeeding Can Influence and Be Influenced?

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Cesarean Outcomes in US Birth Centers and Collaborating Hospitals: A Cohort Comparison

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No obvious impact of caesarean delivery on childhood allergic outcomes: findings from Australian cohorts

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Atopic dermatitis is associated with Caesarean sections in Korean adolescents, but asthma is not

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Cesarean delivery and metabolic risk factors in young adults: a Brazilian birth cohort study

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Relations between mode of birth delivery and timing of developmental milestones and adiposity in preadolescence: A retrospective study

Chojnacki, M. R., Holscher, H. D., Balbinot, A., Raine, L. B., Biggan, J. R., Walk, A. M., Kramer, A. F., Cohen, N. J., Hillman, C. H., & Khan, N. A. (2019) · Early Human Development · doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.12.021 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

Women Are Designed to Deliver Vaginally and Not by Cesarean Section: An Obstetrician's View

Visser, G. H. A. (2014) · Neonatology · doi:10.1159/000365164 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

Delivery by caesarean section and childhood cancer: a nationwide follow‐up study in three countries

Momen, N., Olsen, J. H., Gissler, M., Cnattingius, S., & Li, J. (2014) · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology · doi:10.1111/1471-0528.12667 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Cesarean section and disease associated with immune function

Kristensen, K., & Stokholm, L. (2015) · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.07.040 · Cited by 246 · see citing works

Basic driving skills should be practiced before going on-road with a motorized scooter but universal testing is not warranted

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Immune development of children born from Caesarean section

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Diseases resulting from suboptimal immune function in offspring: is cesarean delivery itself really to blame?

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Cesarean Section and Chronic Immune Disorders

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