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        Junk-food filled neighbourhoods: Building a local evidence-base for change’. Rapid Obesity Policy Translation Program

        Gina Trapp GT BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research 0410 589 374 Gina.Trapp@telethonkids.org.au ARC ...

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        Dairy product consumption, dietary nutrient and energy density and associations with obesity in Australian adolescents

        Dairy intake is likely to influence dietary energy density (ED) and nutrient density (ND), which are factors representing aspects of dietary quality. ...

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        Pre-pregnancy maternal overweight and obesity increase the risk for affective disorders in offspring

        Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity has been linked with an increased risk for negative emotionality and inattentiveness in offspring in early childhood. ...

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        Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone in insulin resistance of abdominal obesity: Cause or effect?

        The objective was to examine whether there were causal links between vitamin D status, parathyroid hormone, insulin resistance. ...

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        Child health and obesity the focus of international built environment study

        Research data from more than one million Australian and Welsh children will be examined to help better understand how the built environment affects child health and obesity, as part of an international research project to be co-led by the Telethon Kids Institute. ...

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        Associations between changes in caregiver’s and child’s weight status in a community-based obesity intervention programme

        We examined whether caregivers of children/adolescents enroled in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a family-centred intervention indirectly achieved reductions in body mass index (BMI), and if these were associated with changes in their children’s BMI. ...

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        Higher maternal protectiveness is associated with higher odds of child overweight and obesity: A longitudinal Australian study

        Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, this study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationships between maternal protectiveness and... ...

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        Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

        Higher maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and gestational weight gain were associated with an increased risk of childhood overweight/obesity ...

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        From Beneath the Skin to the Airway Wall: Understanding the Pathological Role of Adipose Tissue in Comorbid Asthma-Obesity

        This article provides a contemporary report on the role of adipose tissue in respiratory dysfunction. Adipose tissue is distributed throughout the body, accumulating beneath the skin (subcutaneous), around organs (visceral), and importantly in the context of respiratory disease, has recently been shown to accumulate within the airway wall: "airway-associated adipose tissue." Excessive adipose tissue deposition compromises respiratory function and increases the severity of diseases such as asthma. ...

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        Early Nutrition as a Major Determinant of 'Immune Health': Implications for Allergy, Obesity and Other Noncommunicable Diseases

        A better understanding of nutritional programming of immune health may lead to dietary strategies that reduce the burden of many inflammatory diseases ...

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