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| Shiliang LiuSummaryAffiliation: Health Canada Country: Canada Publications
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Birth cohort effects underlying the increasing testicular cancer incidence in CanadaS Liu
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, ON
Can J Public Health 90:176-80. 1999..To examine the pattern of testicular cancer incidence by age, time period and birth cohort since 1969 in Canada...- Environmental hazards: evidence for effects on child healthDonald T Wigle
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 10:3-39. 2007..To adequately address such priorities, governments and agencies must strengthen environmental health research capacities and adopt policies to reduce parental and childhood exposures to proven and emerging environmental threats... - Risk of maternal postpartum readmission associated with mode of deliveryShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Obstet Gynecol 105:836-42. 2005..To determine whether cesarean and operative vaginal deliveries are associated with an increased risk of maternal rehospitalization compared with spontaneous vaginal delivery... - Length of hospital stay, obstetric conditions at childbirth, and maternal readmission: a population-based cohort studyShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, and McLaughlin Center for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
Am J Obstet Gynecol 187:681-7. 2002..We assessed the association between obstetric conditions, length of hospital stay for childbirth, and maternal readmission... - Relationship of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy termination to overall infant mortality in CanadaShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, HPB Bldg 7, Tunney s Pasture AL 0701D, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OL2
JAMA 287:1561-7. 2002..Prenatal diagnosis and termination of affected pregnancies can prevent infant deaths due to congenital anomalies, but an effect at the population level has not been shown... - Secular trends in congenital anomaly-related fetal and infant mortality in Canada, 1985-1996S Liu
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, HPB Building 7, Tunney s Pasture AL 0701D, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OL2
Am J Med Genet 104:7-13. 2001..These changes suggest an increase in prenatal diagnosis and selective termination of pregnancies with congenital anomalies in recent years... 
Maternal mortality and severe morbidity associated with low-risk planned cesarean delivery versus planned vaginal delivery at termShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Health Promotion, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ont
CMAJ 176:455-60. 2007..The rate of elective primary cesarean delivery continues to rise, owing in part to the widespread perception that the procedure is of little or no risk to healthy women...- Sudden infant death syndrome in Canada: trends in rates and risk factors, 1985-1998I D Rusen
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Chronic Dis Can 25:1-6. 2004..However, the lack of reliable risk factor data limits the extent to which the decline can be attributed directly to the campaign... - Temporal trends in sudden infant death syndrome in Canada from 1991 to 2005: contribution of changes in cause of death assignment practices and in maternal and infant characteristicsNicolas L Gilbert
Maternal and Infant Health Section, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 26:124-30. 2012..It is unlikely that the temporal decline of SIDS in Canada was due to changes in cause-of-death assignment practices or in maternal and infant characteristics... 
Incidence, risk factors, and associated complications of eclampsiaShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Obstet Gynecol 118:987-94. 2011..To estimate trends in incidence and identify risk factors and maternal and neonatal consequences of eclampsia in Canada...- Epidemiology of pregnancy-associated venous thromboembolism: a population-based study in CanadaShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Health Promotion, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
J Obstet Gynaecol Can 31:611-20. 2009..To estimate the frequency of, and to identify risk factors for, pregnancy-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE), including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) requiring hospitalization... - Comparison of maternal mortality and morbidity between trial of labor and elective cesarean section among women with previous cesarean deliveryShi Wu Wen
Division of Health Surveillance and Epidemiology, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, 501 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6, Canada
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:1263-9. 2004..This study was undertaken to assess the safety of trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery... - An analysis of antenatal hospitalization in Canada, 1991-2003Shiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Health Promotion, Public Health Agency of Canada, Tunney s Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Matern Child Health J 11:181-7. 2007..To examine the incidence and temporal trends of hospitalization during pregnancy, and provide additional information on maternal morbidity among Canadian women... - Recent trends in caesarean delivery rates and indications for caesarean delivery in CanadaShiliang Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
J Obstet Gynaecol Can 26:735-42. 2004..9% in 1994/95 to 1.3% in 2000/01. CONCLUSION: Most of the recent increase in Caesarean delivery rates in Canada was attributed to increases in primary Caesarean delivery for dystocia and elective repeat Caesarean deliveries... - Secular trends of fetal growth in Canada, 1981 to 1997Shi Wu Wen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 17:347-54. 2003..We conclude that Canadian infants are getting bigger, but only those born at term. The temporal trends for more extremely distributed fetal growth measures are particularly marked... - Trends in fetal and infant deaths caused by congenital anomaliesShiliang Liu
Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Canada
Semin Perinatol 26:268-76. 2002..Further declines in overall infant mortality in industrialized countries can be expected as a result of an increasing uptake of prenatal diagnosis... - Epidemiologic evidence of relationships between reproductive and child health outcomes and environmental chemical contaminantsDonald T Wigle
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 11:373-517. 2008..These are needed to generate research findings that can be compared and subjected to pooled analyses aimed at knowledge synthesis... - Regional patterns of infant mortality caused by lethal congenital anomaliesS W Wen
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, ON
Can J Public Health 90:316-9. 1999..To assess the regional patterns of infant mortality due to lethal congenital anomalies, and the potential reasons for the regional patterns... - Comparison of maternal and infant outcomes between vacuum extraction and forceps deliveriesS W Wen
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Am J Epidemiol 153:103-7. 2001..32, 2.70), respectively. The authors conclude that vacuum extraction causes less maternal trauma but may increase the risk of cephalhematoma and certain types of intracranial hemorrhage (e.g., subarachnoid hemorrhage)... - Impact of prenatal glucose screening on the diagnosis of gestational diabetes and on pregnancy outcomesS W Wen
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Am J Epidemiol 152:1009-14; discussion 1015-6. 2000..The authors concluded that the substantial increase in gestational diabetes in Canada is an artifact caused by universal screening, with no evidence of beneficial effects on pregnancy outcomes... - Placenta praevia and male sex at birth: results from a population-based studyS W Wen
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Laboratory Center for Disease Control, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 14:300-4. 2000..We conclude that pregnant women with male babies carry a higher risk of placenta praevia... - Patterns of infant mortality caused by major congenital anomaliesS W Wen
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Canada
Teratology 61:342-6. 2000..We assessed the impact of recent advances in perinatal care on infant mortality due to congenital anomaly... - Increasing incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Canada, 1970-1996: age-period-cohort analysisShiliang Liu
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Hematol Oncol 21:57-66. 2003..The birth cohort effect in NHL suggests that changes in risk factors may have contributed to the observed increase... - The occurrence of abruptio placentae in Canada: 1990 to 1997Teresa Broers
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Chronic Dis Can 25:16-20. 2004..The abruptio placentae rate was highest in mothers over 40 years of age and the case-fatality rate highest in those under 20. These results provide a baseline reference for rates of abruptio placentae in Canada... - Cause-specific mortality during and after pregnancy and the definition of maternal deathLinda A Turner
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Chronic Dis Can 23:31-6. 2002..We found no empirical justification for including deaths not directly related to pregnancy in reported counts of maternal deaths for most of the causal categories we considered... - Cervical cancer in Canada: changing patterns in incidence and mortalityS Liu
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Center for Healthy Human Development, Ottawa, Canada
Int J Gynecol Cancer 11:24-31. 2001..The results suggest that Pap smear screening has played a significant role in the reduction in squamous cell cervical carcinoma. The causes for the increase in cervical adenocarcinoma are unclear... - Adverse outcomes in pregnancies of asthmatic women: results from a Canadian populationS W Wen
Bureau of Reproductive and Child Health, Laboratory Center for Disease Control, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Ann Epidemiol 11:7-12. 2001..For this reason, pregnant women with asthma are a particularly high-risk group to which extra attention, including increased efforts at education, monitoring, and optimal asthma management, may be appropriate... - Increasing thyroid cancer incidence in Canada, 1970-1996: time trends and age-period-cohort effectsS Liu
Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Healthy Human Development, Health Canada, Ottawa
Br J Cancer 85:1335-9. 2001..Temporal changes in reproductive factors among young women may explain some of the gender differences observed... - Association between maternal exposure to ambient air pollutants during pregnancy and fetal growth restrictionShiliang Liu
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 1 Stewart Street, Ontario, Canada
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 17:426-32. 2007..Our findings add to the emerging body of evidence that exposure to relatively low levels of ambient air pollutants in urban areas during pregnancy is associated with adverse effects on fetal growth... - Analysis of perinatal mortality and its components: time for a change?Michael S Kramer
Department of Pediatrics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 156:493-7. 2002.... - Preterm birth, stillbirth and infant mortality among triplet births in Canada, 1985-96K S Joseph
Department of Obstetrics and Gyneacology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 16:141-8. 2002..In spite of temporal reductions in infant mortality, triplet births continue to be associated with very high rates of preterm birth and fetal and infant mortality. Fetal mortality among triplets has not changed over the last ten years... - Risks of stillbirth and early neonatal death by day of weekZhong-Cheng Luo
Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, , Quebec, Canada
CMAJ 170:337-41. 2004..INTERPRETATION: The crude risks of stillbirth and early neonatal death remained slightly higher for births on weekend days, but the excesses were much smaller than those reported from other countries... - Reconciling the high rates of preterm and postterm birth in the United StatesK S Joseph
Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Obstet Gynecol 109:813-22. 2007..We attempted to explain these differences based on differences in the method of gestational age estimation... - Stillbirths in the United States, 1981-2000: an age, period, and cohort analysisCande V Ananth
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 1977, USA
Am J Public Health 95:2213-7. 2005..We examined age, period, and cohort (APC) effects on temporal trends in stillbirths among Black and White women in the United States... - Does reducing infant mortality depend on preventing low birthweight? An analysis of temporal trends in the AmericasMichael S Kramer
Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 19:445-51. 2005....