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This study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Other researchers involved in the study include: Elizabeth Lewis, M.D. at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children; Marie R. Griffin, M.D., M.P.H., Kathryn M. Edwards, M.D. and Yuwei Zhu, M.D., M.S., all from Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and Peter G. Szilagyi, M.D., M.P.H. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Poehling completed her research while she was on the faculty of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

About Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: Wake Forest Baptist is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Brenner Children's Hospital. It is licensed to operate 1,154 acute care, rehabilitation, psychiatry and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of “America's Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.

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