As the World Bank points out, "undernutrition" in young children has been linked to delayed growth and motor development, lower I.Q.'s, behavioral problems and decreased attention, deficient learning and lower educational achievement.
Malnutrition has been linked to delayed physical, psychosocial, and cognitive development and is now recognized as a major contributor to the growing problem of overweight and obesity in the child and adolescent population.
Primarily, complications have been linked to delayed treatment [6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12], fracture type and patient age [2], inadequate reduction [6], and fixation failure [9].
The Ca2+ ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SERCA2) plays a dominant role in lowering cytoplasmic calcium levels during cardiac relaxation and reduction of its activity has been linked to delayed diastolic relaxation in hypothyroid and failing hearts.
SCD has been linked to delayed tooth erosion, hypoplasia and hypomineralization, hypercementosis, pulp stones, and asymptomatic pulp necrosis due to thrombosis in the blood vessels [ 5].
Notably, inappropriate antibiotic choices have been linked to delayed clinical resolution, longer hospital stay, and an increased risk of mortality [ 5, 6].
Exposure to ethanol in utero has been linked to delayed sexual maturation in female rats 24 25 and, recently, prenatally exposed male rats also showed delayed reproductive development and onset of spermatogenesis compared with the unexposed rats.
In recently published research from this cohort, peripubertal dioxin exposure has been linked to delayed pubertal onset in adolescent boys (Korrick et al. 2011), an association supported by numerous animal studies (Bell et al. 2007; Gray et al. 1995; Hamm et al. 2003).
Marion Buckwalter and her team found that the presence of specialized immune cells in the brain was linked to delayed-onset dementia following a stroke.
