C G Owen

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..UK estimates of age related macular degeneration (AMD) occurrence vary...

..Travel to school may offer a convenient way to increase physical activity levels in childhood. We examined the association between method of travel to school and physical activity levels in urban multi-ethnic children...

..This paper investigates associations between family and home factors and childhood PA in a multi-ethnic population and explores whether associations differ between ethnic groups...

..To examine trends and demographic factors affecting persistence with ocular hypotensive therapy, from a period before prostaglandins were available to when they were the most common therapy...

..Changes in prescribing oral beta-blockers for cardiovascular disorders may affect the number of those who eventually have glaucoma. There is no evidence to suggest that statins have a preventive role in glaucoma...

..The use of self-report questionnaires to substitute for visual acuity measurement has been limited. We examined the association between visual impairment and self reported visual function in a population sample of older people in the UK...

..To study trends in the prevalence of being treated for glaucoma and ocular hypertension from 1994 to 2003, and to examine factors determining treatment in 2002...

..Observational evidence suggests that having been breastfed in infancy may reduce the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in later life...

..We made objective measurements of physical activity in 9-10-year-old British children of South Asian, black African-Caribbean and white European origin...

..To examine the agreement of a novel computer program measuring retinal vessel tortuosity with subjective assessment of tortuosity in school-aged children...

..However, little is known about the effect of diabetes on the tortuosity of vessels of the conjunctiva. The authors examined the tortuosity of conjunctival vessels in participants with and without diabetes...

..Earlier studies have suggested that infant feeding may program long-term changes in cholesterol metabolism...

..We examined changes in conjunctival vessel morphologic features in participants with and without diabetes...

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..We examined these associations in UK children of South Asian, black African-Caribbean and white European origin...

..To examine the association between cardiovascular risk factors and retinal arteriolar tortuosity in a multi-ethnic child population...

..Appreciable ethnic differences exist in the nutritional composition of children's diets, which may contribute to future differences in chronic disease risk...

..We examined the relationship of body mass index (BMI) before 30 years of age to CHD risk in later life...

..The results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed algorithm is comparable with state of the art techniques in terms of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity...

..To examine whether plasma glucose, insulin resistance and markers of adiposity differed between British adolescents of South Asian and European origin...

..To predict the burden of blindness, partial sight, and visual impairment (binocular visual acuity 6/18 or less) due to late stage age related macular degeneration (AMD) in the ageing population of the United Kingdom...

..To assess physical activity (PA) levels measured objectively using accelerometers in community-dwelling older people and to examine the associations with health, disability, anthropometric measures and psychosocial factors...

..To examine the relationship between birth weight and blood total cholesterol (TC) and to compare its strength with that of the relationship between current body mass index and TC...

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..Ischemic heart disease (IHD) rates are lower in UK black Africans and black Caribbeans and higher in South Asians when compared with white Europeans. Ethnic differences in lipid concentrations may play a part in these differences...

..Low birth weight is implicated as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. However, the strength, consistency, independence, and shape of the association have not been systematically examined...

..We examined whether corresponding ethnic differences were apparent in childhood...

..It has been suggested that early life factors, including breastfeeding and birth weight, program childhood myopia...

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..To examine the influence of infant feeding method on serum total cholesterol (TC) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol...

..Nutrition in the first weeks of life may program disease risk in adulthood. We examined the influence of initial infant feeding on cardiorespiratory risk factors in adulthood...

..To quantify the variation in primary open-angle glaucoma (OAG) prevalence with age, gender, race, year of publication, and survey methodology...

..To examine the influence of initial infant feeding on obesity in later life...

..Evidence from observational studies has suggested that breastfeeding may reduce the prevalence of obesity in later life...

..In this study, ethnic differences in refractive status and ocular biometry were examined in a multiethnic sample of British children...

..Although low birthweight has been related to higher mean blood pressure in individuals, there have been very few studies on the contribution of the 'fetal origins hypothesis' to international variations in mean blood pressure...

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..Green illumination is commonly used to image vessels of the retina and conjunctiva. The purpose was to derive the best optical set-up for imaging vessels of the conjunctiva...

..The application of this algorithm to the study of retinal vessels is yet to be realised...

..We investigated associations between breast-feeding during infancy and adult cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort study and meta-analyses of published studies...

..An inverse association between birth weight and ischemic heart disease (IHD) has been seen in observational studies...

..Determine whether a sex difference exists in the association between birth weight and total cholesterol later in life...

..To determine whether breast feeding in infancy compared with bottle feeding formula milk is associated with lower mean blood pressure at different ages...

..Inverse associations between birth weight and subsequent blood cholesterol levels have been used to support the "fetal origins" hypothesis of the relevance of fetal nutrition to adult disease...

..Our estimates suggest that increasing breast-feeding from 50% to 100% would prevent at most 5% of cases of childhood acute leukemia or lymphoma. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc...

..Evidence for the effectiveness of topical treatments, in providing symptomatic relief from ocular allergy, remains uncertain...