Think of that great episode of "Seinfeld" in which an immuno-deficient boy in a bubble, embargoed Cuban cigars and letters John Cheever wrote to a lover were all key ingredients of the story.
We show, for the first time, the effects of replacement with r-metHuLeptin on neurocognition in a leptin-deficient boy from the aforementioned consanguineous Turkish family.
Girls were more often moderately to severely iodine deficient than boys (55.1% versus 44.4%, respectively, Pearson's χ = 6.729, P = 0.035).
A case in point: a doctor at a pediatric clinic told the mother of an aggressive, hyperactive preschool-age boy that her deficient parenting skills were to blame.
Also, the type of clothing worn due to culture or religion may limit the capacity of the skin to synthesize vitamin D. Some of these behaviours are likely to be more evident in girls than boys, and this may explain in part the finding that more girls were deficient in vitamin D than boys.
Patient 1 was a 14-year-old boy with p47 phox-deficient chronic granulomatous disease.
Measurement of urinary, salivary, or blood (e.g., cord blood) testosterone levels in relation to AGI in future studies should help to clarify this issue, as should establishment of more detailed normative data for AGI in boys and girls and the evaluation of AGI in boys with established evidence of deficient androgen action, such as those with hypospadias.
How could this boy, even if he was mentally deficient — and he was, Sanjuro was sure of it — ever confuse him, a Japanese, with one of those spindly little underfed peasants from Vietnam? Angry now, angry all at once, he called over his shoulder to Setsuko, "He's at it again".
Only with The Butcher Boy, the story of a mentally deficient delinquent named Francie Brady, did he manage to find the right inhabitants for this landscape, a coterie of Arcadian grotesques whose broad psychological brush-strokes and deliberately caricatured contours reflected McCabe's obsession with comic-book heroes, popular music, classic TV shows and film noir.
Of particular interest is the murine model for Duchenne dystrophy (mdx) that does not display the severe myopathy seen in boys unless it is crossed to a mouse deficient for telomerase (Sacco et al, 2010).
From that, we can extrapolate that many adolescent girls are also iron deficient to the point of being anaemic; more so than adolescent boys, because of monthly blood loss due to menstruation.
