Mona Jeffreys

..To examine the association between body weight measures across the lifecourse and the risk of adult-onset diabetes...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between body mass index (BMI) in early and mid-adulthood, and BMI change between these ages, and mortality...

..We conclude that childhood BMI is related to increased risk of cancer in later life, particularly smoking-related cancers...

..To determine whether risk factors in childhood and early adulthood affect later mammographic breast density...

..Stage at diagnosis accounted for only part of these differences. Possible factors responsible for ethnic inequalities might include access to specialized cancer services and the quality of care received...

..To describe patterns of excess mortality among patients with diabetes in three ethnic groups...

..In particular, the positive relationship between BMI and SMF volume suggests that volume of dense breast tissue will be a useful marker in breast cancer studies...

..Interventions and policies to improve Māori health and address these inequalities should take into account the health effects of racism...

..Making this distinction will allow inferences about the relative contributions of pre- and post-diagnostic delay to these inequalities...

..This study investigated the role that demographic and tumour factors play in explaining ethnic inequalities in breast cancer survival...

..To investigate ethnic, socioeconomic, and urban/rural differences in stage at diagnosis and cervical cancer survival in New Zealand...

..To examine associations between A1C concentration and mortality in a New Zealand population...

..To investigate differences in breast cancer prognostic factors between ethnic and socioeconomic groups in New Zealand...

..This study investigated the role that demographic and tumour factors play in explaining socioeconomic inequalities in breast cancer survival...

..These results highlight the need for racism to be considered in efforts to eliminate ethnic inequalities in health...

..We investigated the association of comorbidity with cervical cancer survival, and whether comorbidity accounted for the previously observed ethnic differences in survival...

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..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)) level and subsequent cancer risk...

..The aim of this study was to describe ethnic patterns in the incidence and mortality of ovarian cancer in New Zealand, and to investigate ethnic and socioeconomic differences in the grade and stage of ovarian cancer...

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..The aims of this study were to gain an understanding of pregnant women's oral health care practices, access to information, and dental care usage in New Zealand, and to investigate whether these differed between sociodemographic groups...

..In this review, the authors make suggestions regarding the role of epidemiology in facilitating further research to better inform the development of effective policies to address ethnic differences in survival...

..This evidence justifies the use of digital images in the visual assessment of breast density in research studies...

..027 cm3 (95% confidence interval (CI) -0.044 to -0.009) and of ln(SMF%) was 0.005% (95% CI -0.008% to 0.019%). We present these initial data as a background for future analytical work using SMF...

..We discuss why it might not be appropriate to assume SMF (or any volume measure) has a similar breast cancer risk prediction capability to SCC...

..Which of these factors contribute to the widening socioeconomic inequalities in survival remains to be elucidated...

..Disparities in measures of health are highlighted, as are evident differences in knowledge of tumour biology and cancer management between majority and minority populations...

..To use data from the Glasgow Alumni Cohort to investigate whether oral health in young adulthood is independently associated with later life cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality...

..In addition we have commenced regional training on cancer epidemiology and propose further cancer studies in both New Zealand and the Pacific Islands...