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However, recent reports have suggested that physician-diagnosed early-life infections increase ALL risk, thereby raising the possibility that stronger responses to infections might promote risk. We examined whether medically diagnosed infections were related to childhood ALL risk in an integrated health-care system in the United States. Cases of ALL (n\u00a0=\u00a0435) diagnosed between 1994\u20132014 among children aged 0\u201314 years, along with matched controls (n\u00a0=\u00a02,170), were identified at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Conditional logistic regression was used to estimate risk of ALL associated with history of infections during first year of life and across the lifetime (up to diagnosis). History of infection during first year of life was not associated with ALL risk (odds ratio (OR)\u00a0=\u00a00.85, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.60, 1.21). 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