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From diversity comes understanding: health promotion capacity-building and dissemination research in CanadaJ O'Loughlin
Direction de la santé publique de Montréal Centre UOT Santé Physique 1301, rue Sherbrooke Est Montréal, Quebec, Canada H2L 1M3
Promot Educ . 2001..Modifiable risk factors for these diseases are prevalent [e.g., in Canada, 75% of adults have at least one modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD)] (Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, 1997)...
Genetically decreased CYP2A6 and the risk of tobacco dependence: a prospective study of novice smokersJ O'Loughlin
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A3
Tob Control 13:422-8. 2004..These two hypotheses were tested in young adolescents...- Reporting of ethnicity in research on chronic disease: updateJ O'Loughlin
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A2
Postgrad Med J 82:737-42. 2006..This represents an important loss of opportunity to articulate and test hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying ethnic group differences in chronic disease... - Lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease by family origin among children in multiethnic, low-income, urban neighborhoodsJennifer O'Loughlin
Joint Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ethn Dis 14:340-50. 2004..To describe the prevalence of lifestyle risk factors (LRF) for chronic disease by family origin (FO) among children in multiethnic, low-income, urban neighborhoods... - Usefulness of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for identifying youths with hypercholesterolemiaJennifer O'Loughlin
Direction de santé publique de Montréal Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pediatrics 113:1723-7. 2004..To determine the usefulness of parent history of hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular disease as a screening criterion for hypercholesterolemia in youths... - Nicotine-dependence symptoms are associated with smoking frequency in adolescentsJennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Prev Med 25:219-25. 2003..The objective was to study the association between ND symptoms and smoking status among adolescents in the early stages of the smoking onset process... - Lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease across family origin among adults in multiethnic, low-income, urban neighborhoodsJennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Canada
Ethn Dis 17:657-63. 2007..To describe the prevalence and co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease by family origin... - Smoking, physical activity, and diet in North American youth: where are we at?Jennifer L O'Loughlin
Direction de sante publique, Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal Centre, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC
Can J Public Health 94:27-30. 2003 - Assessment of nicotine dependence symptoms in adolescents: a comparison of five indicatorsJ O'Loughlin
Department of Epidemiology, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A2, Canada
Tob Control 11:354-60. 2002..To examine the psychometric properties, test-retest reliability, and convergent construct validity of five indicators of nicotine dependence (ND) symptoms in adolescents... - Smoking cessation counseling practices of general practitioners in MontrealJ O'Loughlin
Direction de la sante publique, Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal Centre, 1301 Sherbrooke Est, Montreal, Quebec
Prev Med 33:627-38. 2001..Despite the cost-effectiveness of physician smoking cessation counseling, many physicians do not adhere to current clinical practice guidelines... - Reliability of selected measures of nicotine dependence among adolescentsJennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Epidemiology McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 12:353-62. 2002..To examine the test retest reliability, internal consistency, and convergent construct validity of selected measures of nicotine dependence (ND) among adolescents... - The hardest thing is the habit: a qualitative investigation of adolescent smokers' experience of nicotine dependenceJennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Epidemiology, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal Quebec H3A 1A2, Canada
Nicotine Tob Res 4:201-9. 2002..The HONC demonstrates content validity among adolescents but could be improved through removal of the item related to depression on withdrawal and possibly addition of items related to stress and appetite... - Prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors by weight status in a population-based sample of Quebec children and adolescentsMarie Lambert
Department of Pediatrics, Universite de Montreal, CHU Sainte Justine, Montreal, Canada
Can J Cardiol 24:575-83. 2008..There are few data on the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in population-based samples of overweight and obese youth... 
Vitamin D status is modestly associated with glycemia and indicators of lipid metabolism in French-Canadian children and adolescentsEdgard E Delvin
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, CHU Sainte Justine, Montreal, Canada
J Nutr 140:987-91. 2010..Although the observed associations between 25(OH)D concentrations and fasting glucose, and variables of lipid metabolism are modest, they may have a potential long-term impact on cardiovascular risk...- Association between cigarette smoking and C-reactive protein in a representative, population-based sample of adolescentsJennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, CRCHUM, Montreal
Nicotine Tob Res 10:525-32. 2008..Damage related to cigarette smoking may begin soon after tobacco use initiation, reinforcing the preventive message that no level of smoking is safe in youth... - Association between different growth curve definitions of overweight and obesity and cardiometabolic risk in childrenLisa Kakinami
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Que
CMAJ 184:E539-50. 2012..We compared the associations between overweight and obesity as defined by each of these curves and the presence of cardiometabolic risk factors... - How are physical activity, fitness, and sedentary behavior associated with insulin sensitivity in children?Melanie Henderson
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Diabetes Care 35:1272-8. 2012..To describe the associations among moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), fitness, sedentary behavior (SB), and insulin sensitivity (IS)... - Blood pressure and adiposity in children and adolescentsGilles Paradis
Direction de santé publique de Montréal Centre, McGill University Health Centre, 1301 Sherbrooke St East, Montreal, Canada, H2L 1M3
Circulation 110:1832-8. 2004..Although obesity is associated with important hemodynamic disturbances, there are few data on population-wide blood pressure (BP) distribution in children and adolescents in this era of endemic pediatric obesity... - Intestinal fatty acid binding protein and microsomal triglyceride transfer protein polymorphisms in French-Canadian youthSimona Stan
Departments of Nutrition, Hopital Sainte Justine, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Lipid Res 46:320-7. 2005..Our study suggests that the effects of FABP2 allelic variations on lipid traits are context dependent, indicating that this variant may play an important role in cardiovascular pathogenesis in the presence of IRS or hypertriglyceridemia... - The efficacy of smoking cessation therapies in cardiac patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsMark J Eisenberg
Division of Cardiology, Jewish General Hospital McGill University, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Road, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Can J Cardiol 26:73-9. 2010..Therefore, a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was performed to determine the efficacy of behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in cardiac patients... - Determinants of first puff and daily cigarette smoking in adolescentsJennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, 3875 Saint Urbain, Montreal, Quebec H2W1V1, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 170:585-97. 2009..Adolescent tobacco control programs should address multiple individual and contextual-level risk factors. Strategies that address nicotine dependence symptoms are also needed for adolescents who have already initiated smoking... - Pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsMark J Eisenberg
Division of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, McGill University, Montreal, QC
CMAJ 179:135-44. 2008..However, few direct or indirect comparisons of such interventions have been conducted. We performed a meta-analysis to compare the treatment effects of 7 approved pharmacologic interventions for smoking cessation... - A prognostic tool to identify adolescents at high risk of becoming daily smokersIgor Karp
University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre CRCHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BMC Pediatr 11:70. 2011..We present a prognostic tool for use by health care practitioners in both clinical and non-clinical settings, to identify adolescents at risk of becoming daily smokers... - Does cigarette use influence adiposity or height in adolescence?Jennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, QC, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 18:395-402. 2008..To study the effect of cigarette use on height and adiposity in adolescents... - Association between insulin, leptin, adiponectin and blood pressure in youthMarie Lambert
Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte Justine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Hypertens 27:1025-32. 2009..To examine whether insulin, leptin and adiponectin are independent correlates of blood pressure (BP) in a large population-based sample of children and adolescents... - Declines in physical activity and higher systolic blood pressure in adolescenceKaterina Maximova
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 170:1084-94. 2009..These results support prevention of declines in MVPA during adolescence to prevent higher blood pressure in youth... - Behavioural interventions for smoking cessation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsSalvatore Mottillo
Division of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital McGill University, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Road, Suite A 118, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Eur Heart J 30:718-30. 2009.... - Risk of gambling onset in youth who are younger than same-grade peersNathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 22:372-5. 2012..To assess whether a child's age relative to the median age of classmates in the same grade is associated with the onset of gambling... - Vigorous physical activity and low-grade systemic inflammation in adolescent boys and girlsCatherine M Sabiston
Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Int J Pediatr Obes 5:509-15. 2010..This study examined the relationship between vigorous PA and C-reactive protein (CRP) in adolescents... - Association between fruit and vegetable consumption in mothers and children in low-income, urban neighborhoodsMarie Pierre Sylvestre
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Health Educ Behav 34:723-34. 2007..Interventions to improve F&V consumption should aim to improve awareness among parents of the importance of fruits and vegetables and of the impact of their own behavior on their children's F&V consumption... - Plasma PCSK9 is associated with age, sex, and multiple metabolic markers in a population-based sample of children and adolescentsAlexis Baass
Hyperlipidemia and Atherosclerosis Research Group, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin Chem 55:1637-45. 2009..Plasma PCSK9 correlates with body mass index, triglyceridemia, total cholesterol, and LDL-C in adults, but no data are available in youth... - Smoking trajectories of adolescent novice smokers in a longitudinal study of tobacco useIgor Karp
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1A4, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 15:445-52. 2005..To describe longitudinal trajectories of smoking intensity in adolescent novice smokers and to identify predictors of trajectory class membership... - The influence of school smoking policies on student tobacco useTracie A Barnett
Centre de recherche du CHU Sainte Justine, 3175 chemin de la Cote Sainte Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:842-8. 2007..To investigate the association between smoking behavior among secondary school students and school smoking policies... - Water-pipe smoking among North American youthsErika Dugas
University of Montreal, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, 3875 St Urbain, Montreal, Québec H2W 1V1, Canada
Pediatrics 125:1184-9. 2010..The objectives of this analysis were to identify the sociodemographic characteristics of water-pipe users in a North American context and to describe concurrent psychoactive substance use... - Milestones in the process of cessation among novice adolescent smokersJennifer O'Loughlin
Centre du recherche du CHUM, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, 3875 rue Saint Urbain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Public Health 99:499-504. 2009..We sought to document the sequence and timing of milestones in the process of smoking cessation by prospectively studied cessation milestones among novice adolescent smokers... - Low vitamin D status in a representative sample of youth from Québec, CanadaSean Mark
Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin Chem 54:1283-9. 2008..There are no reports of population-based studies on the vitamin D status of Canadian youth, a population with mandatory fortification of foods... - Emergence of sex differences in prevalence of high systolic blood pressure: analysis of a longitudinal adolescent cohortKaberi Dasgupta
Departments of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Circulation 114:2663-70. 2006..High systolic blood pressure (SBP) occurs more frequently both among men and boys than among women and girls. No longitudinal study has investigated whether the impact of SBP determinants differ according to sex in youth... - Is the obesity epidemic worsening the cardiovascular risk factor profile of children? Evidence from two Québec samples measured 10 years apartLisa Kakinami
Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ann Hum Biol 39:322-6. 2012..The impact of the obesity epidemic on cardiovascular health in young people is of increasing concern. However, data on secular trends in CVD indicators are outdated and mixed... - Milestones in the natural course of onset of cigarette use among adolescentsAndre Gervais
Agence de santé et des services sociaux, Direction de sante publique, Montreal, Que
CMAJ 175:255-61. 2006..The objective of our study was to describe the sequence and timing of 12 milestones (6 related to cigarette use and 6 to symptoms of nicotine dependence) during onset of cigarette use... - School sports opportunities influence physical activity in secondary school and beyondDaniel Fuller
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Sch Health 81:449-54. 2011..The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the availability of intramural or extramural sports in secondary schools is associated with physical activity levels in youth throughout secondary school and at age 20... - The Québec Child and Adolescent Health and Social Survey: design and methods of a cardiovascular risk factor survey for youthGilles Paradis
Direction de la Santé Publique de Montréal Centre, Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Can J Cardiol 19:523-31. 2003..Although atherosclerosis begins in childhood, there are no recent Canadian data on cardiovascular risk factors in provincially or nationally representative samples of youth... - Physician smoking status may influence cessation counseling practicesGarbis A Meshefedjian
Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal, Direction de sante publique, Montreal, QC
Can J Public Health 101:290-3. 2010..Smoking cessation counseling practices may differ between physicians who smoke and those who have quit or never smoked... - Teens and screens: the influence of screen time on adiposity in adolescentsTracie A Barnett
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 172:255-62. 2010..Efforts to prevent obesity in youth should emphasize reducing screen time... - C-reactive protein and features of the metabolic syndrome in a population-based sample of children and adolescentsMarie Lambert
Department of Pediatrics, Ste Justine Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin Chem 50:1762-8. 2004..In youth, limited data are available on the distribution of high-sensitivity CRP as well as on its association with components of the metabolic syndrome... - Gender differences among general practitioners in smoking cessation counseling practicesJennifer O'Loughlin
CR CHUM and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Prev Med 45:208-14. 2007..To describe gender differences in smoking cessation counseling practices among general practitioners (GPs), and to investigate the association between training for cessation counseling and counseling practices according to gender... - Adiposity and gingival crevicular fluid tumour necrosis factor-alpha levels in childrenRoozbeh Khosravi
Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, INRS Institut Armand Frappier, QC, Canada
J Clin Periodontol 36:301-7. 2009..To investigate whether adiposity is associated with gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) levels in children. We also examined whether this relationship is mediated through plasma fasting insulin... - Household income, food insecurity and nutrition in Canadian youthSean Mark
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Can J Public Health 103:94-9. 2012..The objective of this study was to examine the influence of income and the conjoint influence of low income and food insecurity on several dietary indicators in a representative sample of Canadian youth... - A comprehensive view of sex-specific issues related to cardiovascular diseaseLouise Pilote
Division of Internal Medicine, The McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Que
CMAJ 176:S1-44. 2007..However, the interaction between sex-and gender-related factors and CVD outcomes in women remains largely unknown... - Smoking cessation attempts among adolescent smokers: a systematic review of prevalence studiesChristina Bancej
McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Montreal, Canada
Tob Control 16:e8. 2007..To synthesise estimates of the prevalence of cessation attempts among adolescent smokers generally, and according to age and level of cigarette consumption... - The pre-hospital fibrinolysis experience in Europe and North America and implications for wider disseminationThao Huynh
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, McGill Health University Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
JACC Cardiovasc Interv 4:877-83. 2011..A secondary objective is to report the outcome data of the PHL programs surveyed... - Does the "healthy immigrant effect" extend to smoking in immigrant children?Jennifer O'Loughlin
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Adolesc Health 46:299-301. 2010..Interventions may be needed for immigrant children to prevent the adoption of unhealthy behaviors prevalent in their new host environments... - Do the correlates of smoking cessation counseling differ across health professional groups?Michèle Tremblay
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, 190, boul Crémazie Est, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2E 1P2
Nicotine Tob Res 11:1330-8. 2009.... - An investigation of social and pharmacological exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke as possible predictors of perceived nicotine dependence, smoking susceptibility, and smoking expectancies among never-smoking youthSimon Racicot
Pediatric Public Health Psychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nicotine Tob Res 13:926-33. 2011..The aim of the present study was to replicate and extend these findings by investigating whether social and pharmacological measures of SHS exposure predicted precursors to smoking among never-smoking adolescents... - Bupropion for smoking cessation in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: a randomized, placebo-controlled trialMark J Eisenberg
Divisions of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec City, Canada Electronic address
J Am Coll Cardiol 61:524-32. 2013..The purpose of this study was to examine smoking cessation rates among smokers with AMI to determine whether bupropion, started in-hospital, is safe and can improve cessation rates at 1 year... - The association between parental history of diagnosed mood/anxiety disorders and psychiatric symptoms and disorders in young adult offspringNancy C P Low
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1A1, Canada
BMC Psychiatry 12:188. 2012..This study uses a large population-based sample to test if maternal or paternal history of mood and/or anxiety disorders increases the risk of mood and/or anxiety disorders, or symptoms of specific anxiety disorders, in offspring... - Common stressful life events and difficulties are associated with mental health symptoms and substance use in young adolescentsNancy CP Low
Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
BMC Psychiatry 12:116. 2012..This study uses a large non-clinical sample of young adolescents to describe the associations among worry or stress about common life events/difficulties, mental health and substance use... - Eliciting information on differential sensation of heat in those with and without poststroke aphasia using a visual analogue scaleNicol Korner-Bitensky
School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Stroke 37:471-5. 2006..The objective was to determine whether those with poststroke aphasia could respond differentially to thermal stimuli of varying intensities using a standardized VAS... - Acute phenylalanine/tyrosine depletion reduces motivation to smoke cigarettes across stages of addictionViswanath V Venugopalan
Department of Neurology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Neuropsychopharmacology 36:2469-76. 2011..In the transition from sporadic to addicted use, the role of DA in the motivation to seek drug may change less than previously proposed... - Comparison of primary percutaneous coronary intervention and fibrinolytic therapy in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction: bayesian hierarchical meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials and observational studiesThao Huynh
1650 Ave Cedar, Room E 5200, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4, Canada
Circulation 119:3101-9. 2009..We aim to obviate the limited applicability of RCTs to real-world settings by undertaking meta-analyses of both RCTs and observational studies... - Does intolerance of smoking at school or in restaurants or corner stores decrease cigarette use initiation in adolescents?Roman Pabayo
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nicotine Tob Res 14:1154-60. 2012..The objective of this paper is to describe the association between smoking intolerance in schools, and in restaurants and corner stores located near schools, and initiation of cigarette smoking among adolescents... - Validity of the night eating questionnaire in childrenAnnette R Gallant
Department of Physical Education, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Int J Eat Disord 45:861-5. 2012..To measure the construct validity of the Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ) in children against a parent report of child night eating syndrome (NES) symptoms (NEQ report) and a 3-day dietary recall... - Early predictors of suicidal ideation in young adultsErika Dugas
Nicotine Dependence in Teens Project Coordinator, Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Can J Psychiatry 57:429-36. 2012..To identify early predictors of suicidal ideation in young adults, and to determine when specific time-varying determinants become important in predicting later suicidal ideation... - One- and two-year predictors of decline in physical activity among inner-city schoolchildrenTracie A Barnett
Public Health Directorate, Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal Centre Barnett, O Loughlin, Paradis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Prev Med 23:121-8. 2002..This report identifies 1- and 2-year predictors of decline in PA among fourth- and fifth-grade students from inner-city neighborhoods in Montreal, Canada... - Impulsivity and socio-economic status interact to increase the risk of gambling onset among youthNathalie Auger
Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, 190, boulevard Crémazie Est, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Addiction 105:2176-83. 2010..To determine if impulsivity and socio-economic status (SES) interact to influence gambling onset in youth... - Delays to reperfusion therapy in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the AMI-QUEBEC StudyThao Huynh
Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CMAJ 175:1527-32. 2006..Through the AMI-QUEBEC Study we sought to describe delays to reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and to identify factors associated with prolonged delays...