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BMC Pediatrics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health care in neonates, children and adolescents, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology and epidemiology. The journal is indexed by CAS, MEDLINE, Medscape, PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded, SCImago and Scopus.For editorial enquiries please contact the Executive Editor peter.odonovan@biomedcentral.com

BMC Pediatrics is advised by an expert Editorial Board.Section Editors:Shally Awasthi (India)Elena Chiappini (Italy)David A Paul (USA)Susan E Richardson (Canada)Paramala Santosh (UK)

Deputy Section Editor:Robert Locke (USA)

Associate Editors:Girdhar Agarwal (India)Sofiya Alhassan (USA)Gad Alpan (USA)Andrew Argent (South Africa)Ambika P. Ashraf (USA)Elizabeth Asztalos (Canada)Inge Axelsson (Sweden)Consuelo Beck-Sagué (USA)Vineet Bhandari (USA)Rahul Bhola (USA)Ari Bitnun (Canada)James Boardman (UK)Andrea Boggild (Canada)Itzhak Brook (USA)John Cairney (Canada)Krista Casazza (USA)Josefina Castro-Fornieles (Spain)

Anil Chacko (USA)Rana Chakraborty (USA)Bruce Clark (UK)Conrad Cole (USA)Annet J Dallmeijer (Netherlands)Mark De Ste Croix (UK)Shaul Dollberg (Israel)Lizhong Du (China)Craig Erickson (USA)Mark Fishbein (USA)Dario Galante (Italy)Magdalena C Garcia (Spain)Mario Giuffre (Italy)Hannah Glass (USA)Beatrice Goilav (USA)Sergio G Golombek (USA)Valeria Hirschler (Argentina)Cheryl A Howe (USA)Lucky Jain (USA)Frances Jamieson (Canada)David Jimenez-Pavon (Spain)Heinz Jungbluth (UK)Satish Kalhan (USA)Yogavijayan Kandasamy (Australia)Han C Kemper (Netherlands)

Susan Kirk (UK)Joanne Langley (Canada)Valériane Leroy (France)Xin Liu (USA)Robert Locke (USA)Jamie Lohr (USA)Chessa K Lutter (USA)Paola Marchisio (Italy)Gian Luigi Marseglia (Italy)David Martinez-Gomez (Spain)Antonio Messineo (Italy)Seema Mihrshahi (Australia)Mark Miller (USA)Julia Morinis (Canada)Shaun Morris (Canada)Antoni Noguera-Julian (Spain)Andreas Nydegger (Switzerland)Herbert Anayo Obu (Nigeria)Tinuade Ogunlesi (Nigeria)Vincent Onywera (Kenya)Yoon Phaik Ooi (Switzerland)Newton Opiyo (Kenya)Dasja Pajkrt (Netherlands)Kathryn Parkinson (UK)Lynda E Polgreen (USA)Shahirose Premji (Canada)

C Anthony Ryan (Ireland)Marina Salvadori (Canada)Iman Sharif (USA)Doron Sommer (Canada)Parmi Suchdev (USA)Alastair Sutcliffe (UK)Marian Tanofsky-Kraff (USA)Liu Lin Thio (USA)Eva Thomas (Canada)Susan Torrey (USA)Dat Tran (Canada)Nestor Vain (Argentina)Giovanni Vento (Italy)Esko Wiltshire (New Zealand)Xiao Zhang (Hong Kong)

Editorial Advisors:A David Edwards (UK)Charles Hoff (USA)Terry P Klassen (Canada)H P Sachdev (India)Gerd Schmalisch (Germany)William L Stone (USA)Haluk Topaloglu (Turkey)Henri A Verhaaren (Belgium)David J Walsh (USA)

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