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Cohort Profile: the international childhood cardiovascular cohort (i3C) consortiumTerence Dwyer
Environmental and Genetic Epidemiology Research Group, Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Int J Epidemiol 42:86-96. 2013..Within the consortium, we hope to be able to obtain data on the independent effects of childhood and early adult levels of CVD risk factors on subsequent CVD occurrence...- Childhood and adolescent predictors of leisure time physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood: a population based cohort studyKim A Jose
Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 23, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:54. 2011.... - The provision of compulsory school physical activity: associations with physical activity, fitness and overweight in childhood and twenty years laterVerity Cleland
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania 7000, Australia
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 5:14. 2008..To determine whether the provision of higher levels of compulsory school physical activity is associated with higher physical activity and fitness levels and less overweight in childhood and 20 years later... - Takeaway food consumption and its associations with diet quality and abdominal obesity: a cross-sectional study of young adultsKylie J Smith
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania 7000, Australia
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 6:29. 2009..abstract:.. - Intergenerational educational mobility is associated with cardiovascular disease risk behaviours in a cohort of young Australian adults: The Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) StudySeana L Gall
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:55. 2010..We examined if current education, parental education or educational mobility between generations was associated with healthy lifestyles in young Australian adults... - Prevalence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: results from a STEPS surveyLuc H Pham
Faculty of Public Health, Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Can Tho, Vietnam
BMC Public Health 9:291. 2009..This population-based survey aimed to describe the prevalence of risk factors for NCD in a rural Vietnamese sample... - Menstrual irregularity and bone mass in premenopausal women: cross-sectional associations with testosterone and SHBGShuying Wei
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 11:288. 2010..This study aimed to describe the associations between menstrual pattern, testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) and bone mass in a population-based sample of premenopausal women... - Association between dietary fat and skin cancer in an Australian population using case-control and cohort study designsRobert H Granger
Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Australia
BMC Cancer 6:141. 2006..We had the opportunity to examine the association concurrently for all three types of skin cancer in a population-based study in Tasmania, Australia, involving 652 cases of CMM, BCC and SCC and a common set of 471 controls... 
Association between birth weight and adolescent systolic blood pressure in a caucasian birth cohort differs according to skin type, CRH promoter or 11beta-HSD2 genotypeT Dwyer
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Arch Dis Child 93:760-7. 2008..To examine whether the inverse association between birth weight and blood pressure varies by skin pigmentation and/or related genotypes. Study..- Association of change in daily step count over five years with insulin sensitivity and adiposity: population based cohort studyT Dwyer
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne 3052, Australia
BMJ 342:c7249. 2011..To investigate the association between change in daily step count and both adiposity and insulin sensitivity and the extent to which the association between change in daily step count and insulin sensitivity may be mediated by adiposity... - Decline in physical fitness from childhood to adulthood associated with increased obesity and insulin resistance in adultsTerence Dwyer
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Diabetes Care 32:683-7. 2009..To examine how fitness in both childhood and adulthood is associated with adult obesity and insulin resistance... - Melanocortin 1 receptor genotype, past environmental sun exposure, and risk of multiple sclerosisT Dwyer
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville Victoria 3052, Australia
Neurology 71:583-9. 2008..We aimed to investigate the interplay between melanocortin 1 receptor gene variants, red hair/fair skin phenotype, and past environmental sun exposure in MS... 
The inverse relationship between number of steps per day and obesity in a population-based sample: the AusDiab studyT Dwyer
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:797-804. 2007..In particular, the shape of the association has not yet been well described. Pedometers provide an opportunity to better characterize the association...- Sudden infant death syndrome and prone sleeping positionT Dwyer
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Ann Epidemiol 19:245-9. 2009..The story of the SIDS epidemic is an example of the contribution that epidemiology can make to the understanding and prevention of an important public health problem... - Vitamin D levels in people with multiple sclerosis and community controls in Tasmania, AustraliaI A F van der Mei
Menzies Research Institute, Private Bag 23, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
J Neurol 254:581-90. 2007..Adequate 25(OH)D levels are required to prevent adverse effects on bone health. Population-based data on factors associated with 25(OH)D levels of people with MS have been lacking... - Past environmental sun exposure and risk of multiple sclerosis: a role for the Cdx-2 Vitamin D receptor variant in this interactionJ L Dickinson
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Mult Scler 15:563-70. 2009..These data provide support for the involvement of the VDR gene in determining MS risk, an interaction likely to be dependent on past sun exposure... - Maternal diet, breastfeeding and adolescent body composition: a 16-year prospective studyJ Yin
Menzies Research Institute, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Eur J Clin Nutr 66:1329-34. 2012..This study aims to describe associations between early nutrition and body composition in adolescents... - Takeaway food consumption and cardio-metabolic risk factors in young adultsK J Smith
Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania, Australia
Eur J Clin Nutr 66:577-84. 2012..This study aimed to determine whether takeaway food consumption is associated with fasting glucose, insulin, lipids, homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) and blood pressure... - Maternal and infant factors associated with neonatal adiposity: results from the Tasmanian Infant Health Survey (TIHS)G Tikellis
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Int J Obes (Lond) 36:496-504. 2012..To examine the maternal and neonatal factors associated with offspring adiposity and the role of birth and placental weight as potential mediators in such associations... - Syndrome X in 8-y-old Australian children: stronger associations with current body fatness than with infant size or growthT Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:1301-9. 2002..We investigated clustering of syndrome X factors in a sample of 8-y-old Australian children, and whether the clusters were associated with size at birth and childhood obesity... - Past exposure to sun, skin phenotype, and risk of multiple sclerosis: case-control studyI A F van der Mei
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia
BMJ 327:316. 2003..To examine whether past high sun exposure is associated with a reduced risk of multiple sclerosis... - A prospective study of the association between home gas appliance use during infancy and subsequent dust mite sensitization and lung function in childhoodA L Ponsonby
Menzies Centre for Population Health, University of Tasmania, Australia
Clin Exp Allergy 31:1544-52. 2001..Home gas appliance use has been associated with child respiratory illness but prospective data on the relationship between infant exposure and the development of child allergic disease has not been readily available... - The association between maternal diet during pregnancy and bone mass of the children at age 16J Yin
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Eur J Clin Nutr 64:131-7. 2010..However, it is unclear on the association between maternal nutrition during pregnancy and bone mass in their offspring at adolescence... - Validity and reliability of adult recall of past sun exposure in a case-control study of multiple sclerosisI A F van der Mei
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 23, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1538-44. 2006..Measurement of past sun exposure through recall by adults has the potential for measurement error. We aimed to investigate aspects of validity and reliability of self-reported past sun exposure... - Asthma onset prior to multiple sclerosis and the contribution of sibling exposure in early lifeA L Ponsonby
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Clin Exp Immunol 146:463-70. 2006..The link between early life sibling exposure and the immune response to herpes group viral antigens is consistent with a protective role for early life infections... - Associations of TV viewing and physical activity with the metabolic syndrome in Australian adultsD W Dunstan
International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Diabetologia 48:2254-61. 2005..We analysed a sample of Australian adults to determine the strength of associations of TV viewing and participation in physical activity with the metabolic syndrome... - Microalbuminuria is positively associated with usual dietary saturated fat intake and negatively associated with usual dietary protein intake in people with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitusM D Riley
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Am J Clin Nutr 67:50-7. 1998..10 (95% CI: 0.02, 0.56; P = 0.01). There was no significant association between microalbuminuria and energy-adjusted carbohydrate intake, energy-adjusted monounsaturated fat intake, or energy-adjusted polyunsaturated fat intake... - The use of spectrophotometry to estimate melanin density in CaucasiansT Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 7:203-6. 1998..It should provide improved discrimination of individual susceptibility to epidermal tumors in Caucasians and information about melanin's biological role in the causation of skin cancer... - Offspring number, pregnancy, and risk of a first clinical demyelinating event: the AusImmune StudyA L Ponsonby
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Neurology 78:867-74. 2012..To examine the association between past pregnancy, offspring number, and first clinical demyelination risk... - Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry body composition and aging in a population-based older cohortK A Shaw
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:279-84. 2007.... - Within pair association between birth weight and blood pressure at age 8 in twins from a cohort studyT Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, Australia
BMJ 319:1325-9. 1999..To study the association between birth weight and blood pressure in children from multiple pregnancies (multiplets), mostly twins, to determine whether maternal or genetic factors are responsible for the association... - Short-term morbidity and infant mortality among infants who slept supine at 1 month of age--a follow-up reportT Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Australia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 13:302-15. 1999..These findings provide further support for the recent recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics that healthy infants should preferably sleep in the supine position... - Breastfeeding in early life and bone mass in prepubertal children: a longitudinal studyG Jones
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Osteoporos Int 11:146-52. 2000..If this association is confirmed in other populations and persists until the attainment of peak bone mass then the implication would be that osteoporosis prevention programs need to start very early in the life cycle... - Measuring environmental factors can enhance the search for disease causing genes?T Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:613-5. 2004.... - Fetal origins of adult disease?R Morley
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 28:962-6. 2001..In the present paper, we discuss design and statistical issues in relation to animal studies. The challenge in this field is to devise ways to identify and test potential causal hypotheses in humans... - Melanin density and melanin type predict melanocytic naevi in 19-20 year olds of northern European ancestryT Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Melanoma Res 10:387-94. 2000..The next step is to determine whether these measures also predict the risk of melanoma... - Regional variation in multiple sclerosis prevalence in Australia and its association with ambient ultraviolet radiationI A van der Mei
Cooperative Research Centre for Discovery of Genes for Common Human Diseases at the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Neuroepidemiology 20:168-74. 2001..It is consistent with the hypothesis that UVR exposure may reduce the risk of MS possibly via T-lymphocyte-mediated immunosuppression. Analytical epidemiology studies are required to investigate this specific hypothesis... - Sources of heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of observational studies: the example of SIDS and sleeping positionT Dwyer
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252 23, Hobart 7001, Tasmania, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 54:440-7. 2001..In meta-analyses of observational studies it is important to investigate the reasons for heterogeneity across studies... - Maternal diet during pregnancy is associated with bone mineral density in children: a longitudinal studyG Jones
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Eur J Clin Nutr 54:749-56. 2000..To describe the association between maternal diet during the third trimester of pregnancy and bone mass in 8 y-old male and female children... - Bone mass in prepubertal children: gender differences and the role of physical activity and sunlight exposureG Jones
Menzies Center for Population Health Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 83:4274-9. 1998..The magnitude of both gender and environmental differences in bone mass in this age group is substantial, suggesting that modification at this stage of life may influence peak bone mass and possibly fracture risk in later life... - Oral contraceptive use and bone mass in women aged 26-36 yearsS Wei
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 23, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
Osteoporos Int 22:351-5. 2011..The association between hormonal contraceptive use and bone mineral density remains controversial... - Declining lung cancer mortality of young Australian women despite increased smoking is linked to reduced cigarette 'tar' yieldsL Blizzard
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252 23, Hobart, 7001, Australia
Br J Cancer 84:392-6. 2001..Reductions in tar yields of Australian-made cigarettes, which would have affected primarily those born after the 1940s, may be responsible... - Prevalence and concurrence of anxiety, depression and fatigue over time in multiple sclerosisB Wood
Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
Mult Scler 19:217-24. 2013..Anxiety, depression and fatigue are commonly reported by persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS)... - Association between blood pressure and dietary factors in the dietary and nutritional survey of British adultsT C Beard
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Arch Intern Med 157:234-8. 1997..To measure the associations among blood pressure, hypertension, and recorded dietary factors... - The association between breastfeeding, maternal smoking in utero, and birth weight with bone mass and fractures in adolescents: a 16-year longitudinal studyG Jones
Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 23, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
Osteoporos Int 24:1605-11. 2013..The results suggest that breastfeeding is associated with higher bone mass and lower fracture risk at age 16 but not in utero smoking or birth weight... - Is there a link between components of health-related functioning and incident impaired glucose metabolism and type 2 diabetes? The Australian Diabetes Obesity and Lifestyle (AusDiab) studyRobyn J Tapp
Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre Southern Clinical School, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Diabetes Care 33:757-62. 2010..To determine the longitudinal association of components of health-related functioning (HRF) with incident impaired glucose metabolism and type 2 diabetes... - A randomized controlled trial of phytoestrogen supplementation, growth and bone turnover in adolescent malesG Jones
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Eur J Clin Nutr 57:324-7. 2003..To assess the effect of phytoestrogens on bone turnover and growth in adolescent boys... - Predictive associations between alternative measures of childhood adiposity and adult cardio-metabolic healthM D Schmidt
Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 35:38-45. 2011..To estimate associations between alternative measures of childhood adiposity and indicators of cardio-metabolic health in adulthood, both unadjusted and adjusted for changes in adiposity from childhood to adulthood... - Observational analytic studies in multiple sclerosis: controlling bias through study design and conduct. The Australian Multicentre Study of Environment and Immune FunctionR M Lucas
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
Mult Scler 13:827-39. 2007.... - Higher maternal dietary protein intake in late pregnancy is associated with a lower infant ponderal index at birthK Andreasyan
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Eur J Clin Nutr 61:498-508. 2007..In this context, we investigated the association between maternal nutrition and birth anthropometry... - A differing pattern of association between dietary fish and allergen-specific subgroups of atopyK Andreasyan
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Allergy 60:671-7. 2005..This may be due to the different timing of allergen exposure during early life. Further investigation of the causes of atopic disease should take into account allergen-specific subgroups... - Trends in diabetes management practices of patients from an Australian insulin-treated diabetes registerM M Sale
Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Diabet Med 21:165-70. 2004..To compare diabetes management practices in 2001 among individuals from Tasmania, Australia, with a previous management survey conducted in 1995-7... - A prospective association between cocoon use in infancy and childhood asthmaL F Trevillian
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:281-9. 2004..The present findings implicate infant bedding choice as a significant factor and further studies on the infant sleeping environment are indicated... - An association between plastic mattress covers and sheepskin underbedding use in infancy and house dust mite sensitization in childhood: a prospective studyL F Trevillian
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Clin Exp Allergy 33:483-9. 2003..Infant bedding has been associated with the accumulation of varying levels of HDM. Prospective data on the relationship between infant bedding and the development of HDM sensitization has not been previously examined...