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It is unclear what will be the impact of the introduction of booster doses in older groups on transmission to younger at-risk age groups.
Subjects with poor pre-morbid functioning or at-risk behaviour were more likely to have delayed access to care.
Together with an experienced family planning trainer, she was counseling an ' at-risk ' client.
This may explain the lower levels of pneumococcal vaccine coverage in the elderly and other at-risk groups compared with influenza vaccine coverage.
Therefore, our findings cannot be generalized to more at-risk populations, where associations between all insecure attachment classifications and behavior problems are likely to be stronger.
This highlights the possibility of longitudinal studies identifying sub-behavioural characteristics of those at-risk subjects in whom symptoms may later occur.
Since influenza and pneumococcal vaccination has been reported to be effective, improved coverage of these vaccines among at-risk patients can yield significant public health benefits.
A series of prior empirical findings attested to the value of examining neighborhood influences on at-risk children and adolescents.
These practitioners are developmental specialists and work to address the educational, mental health, and health needs of students and their families, whether at-risk or not.
At 8 years, 65% of the at-risk children were classified as reading disabled.
Such theorizing might account for the exacerbation of at-risk individuals' cognitive impairments under conditions of stress.
Of 87 ' 'at-risk' ' pregnancies (paternal antigen status positive or unknown), twenty-one fetuses were affected, 8 with severe disease.
Approximately 50% of the original at-risk sample and 67% of the families contacted by telephone agreed to participate.
Among these mechanisms may be one or more that are amenable to manipulations that prevent, reverse, or diminish the disorder of autism in at-risk individuals.
Parents of at-risk families completed a multiagent (youth, caregivers, teacher) questionnaire assessment.
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