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ent was effective for refractory gastrointestinal Henoch-Schönlein purpura.The influence of environmental factors on atopic dermatitis (AD) has been investigated in many cross-sectional studies. It remains however unclear if they could influence AD development early in life. This prospective birth cohort study aimed to monitor aspects of family lifestyle and child's nutrition within a Caucasian population and to assess its association with AD development over the first 2 years of life. Genetic predisposition was evaluated based on family history and profilaggrin genotyping. Of 149 included children, 36 developed AD. Infants with a family history of atopy developed AD 2.6 times more frequently (30 of 97) than infants without atopic predisposition (6 of 52). Genotyping was carried out on 50% of the children included. Profilaggrin mutations (R501X, 2282del4, R2447X, and S3247X) were infrequent in our population. Lower incidence of AD was observed in infants exposed to a damp housing environment, lower household income, and smoking mothers with a higher but not with a lower education leposed to a moist housing environment, lower household income, and smoking of mothers with a higher but not with a lower education level.PURPOSE OF REVIEW Focusing on the strict relationship between house dust mites and crustaceans from the allergenic point of view. RECENT FINDINGS The well-known tropomyosin was considered for years as the cross-reacting allergen between shrimp and house dust mites. In the last few years, several allergens not only in shrimps but also in house dust mite have been identified and other molecules other than tropomyosin have been shown to cross-react between crustaceans and mites. The present review investigates the very complex allergen sources in shrimp and mites, giving a satisfactorily complete picture of the interrelationships between common allergens. Several minor HDM allergens are homologous to major and minor shrimp allergens; tropomyosin is not the only cross-reactive allergen between shrimp and mites.This study explores an automatic diagnosis method to predict unnecessary nodule biopsy from a small, unbalanced, and pathologically proven database. The automatic diagnosis method is based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. Because of the small and unbalanced samples, the presented method aims to improve the transfer learning capability via the VGG16 architecture and optimize the related transfer learning parameters. For comparison purpose, a traditional machine learning method is implemented, which extracts the texture features and classifies the features by support vector machine (SVM). The database includes 68 biopsied nodules, 16 are pathologically proven benign and the remaining 52 are malignant. To consider the volumetric data by the CNN model, each image slice from each nodule volume is selected randomly until all image slices of each nodule are utilized. The leave-one-out and 10-folder cross validations are applied to train and test the randomly selected 68 image slices (one image slice from one nodule) in each experiment, respectively. The averages over all the experimental outcomes are the final results. The experiments revealed that the features from both the medical and the natural images share the similarity of focusing on simpler and less-abstract objects, leading to the conclusion that not the more the transfer convolutional layers, the better the classification results. Transfer learning from other larger datasets can supply additional information to small and unbalanced datasets to improve the classification performance. The presented method has shown the potential to adapt CNN architecture to improve the prediction of unnecessary nodule biopsy from small, unbalanced, and pathologically proven volumetric dataset.The prognostic significance of resting heart rate (HR) in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is unclear, and the