Conversations That Matter: Why do some children get sick?
The same disease can have different outcomes and Dr. Stuart Turvey and his team are trying to figure out why
By Stuart McNish • Special To The Sun
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“Why do some healthy children succumb to overwhelming bacterial infection while others survive or not become infected at all?” asks Dr. Stuart Turvey of B.C. Children’s Hospital and the University of BC’s faculty of medicine. “Why do some children suffer crippling juvenile arthritis or life-threatening asthma?”
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For the past 16 years, Turvey and a team of researchers have been asking and answering these questions through the national child cohort study, starting with a population of children with a defined infectious or inflammatory disease phenotype.
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“The knowledge generated by this approach will aid in diagnosis and highlight mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and ultimately identify novel treatments.”
We invited Turvey to join us a Conversation That Matters about the benefits that his research is delivering to children’s health. See the video at vancouversun.com/tag/conversations-that-matter.
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Join us Feb. 10 for Conversations Live mayors panel.
