“High Risk” Infants
It’s the largest study of its kind so far, involving 319 children over a period of five years. Doctors took stool samples from the children at three months of age, and again at one year of age. The children also got detailed clinical checkups at one year of age, and again at three and five. Researchers compared those clinical exams to the stool samples taken previously, looking for connections between the microbes in the stool and the children’s later health.