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Po-Yang Tsou1, Yu-Hsun Wang2, Ignacio E Tapia3

  • 1Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Farley 4, Boston, MA, USA. po-yang.tsou@childrens.harvard.edu.

BMC pediatrics
|August 5, 2025
PubMed
概括

患有唐氏综合征 (DS) 的黑人儿童在住院期间面临更高的死亡风险和侵入性机械通风 (IMV) 风险. 这些差异凸显出有针对性的干预措施的必要性,以改善这一弱势群体的结果.

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