Liz Davis EA MBBS FRACP PhD Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; Clinical Lead, Diabetes and Obesity Research Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; Clinical Lead, Diabetes and Obesity Research Professor Davis is a ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Chronic and Severe Diseases
• Diabetes, Metabolism and Clinical Sciences
• Diabetes and Obesity Research
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An open letter to politicians on climate change and obesity ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• March 2010

The need to target prevention and intervention efforts for childhood overweight and obesity towards families with overweight parents ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• November 2016

Early nutrition in infancy may influence later child health outcomes including overweight through 'programming'. ...

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• 2012
• July 2012

It is remarkably difficult for people with obesity to maintain a new lower weight following weight loss. ...

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• 2010
• August 2010

Whānau Pakari is a healthy lifestyle assessment and intervention programme for children and adolescents with obesity in Taranaki (Aotearoa/New Zealand), which, in this region, replaced the nationally funded Green Prescription Active Families (GRxAF) programme.  ...

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• 2024
• February 2024

To determine the influence of obesity on neonatal hypoglycaemia among infants born to gestational diabetes mellitus mothers. ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

Overweight and obese children reported greater psychosocial distress than healthy weight children, and these differences were more pronounced for girls than boys. ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI),... ...

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• 2015
• February 2015

Lipidomic biomarkers associated with obesity and IR using plasma samples from a population-based cohort of young adults ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

Increasing evidence implicates maternal obesity as a major determinant of offspring health during childhood and later adult life ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

With more than one in four Australian children overweight or obese, and the significant risks this poses for health problems like asthma, depression,... ...

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• 2013
• August 2013