Ms Shona Goldsmith (PhD student University of Sydney), Dr Sarah McIntyre (CP Alliance), Dr Michele Hansen, Prof Nadia Badawi (CP Alliance)   Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability of childhood, and describes a group of permanent ...

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Parent–child book reading interventions alone are unlikely to meet needs of children and families for whom the absence of reading is psychosocial risk factor ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

Preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality and is associated with adverse developmental and long-term health outcomes, including several cardiometabolic risk factors and outcomes. However, evidence about the association of preterm birth with later body size derives mainly from studies using birth weight as a proxy of prematurity rather than an actual length of gestation. We investigated the association of gestational age (GA) at birth with body size from infancy through adolescence. ...

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• 2023
• January 2023

The purpose of this review is to examine the role of innate immunity in the lungs in the development of allergy and asthma. ...

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• 2011
• January 2011

The long-term adherence to the dietary guidelines has not been evaluated against emergence of cardiometabolic risks in adolescents with increasing rates of... ...

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• 2015
• June 2015

Parental pre-pregnancy body mass index and rapid early-life weight gain predispose offspring to obesity in adulthood ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

Comparing children entering out-of-home care in Canada and Australia ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

Cardiovascular disease occurs prematurely in type 1 diabetes. The additional risk of overweight is not well characterized. The primary aim was to measure the impact of body mass index (BMI) in youth with type 1 diabetes on cardiovascular risk factors. The secondary aim was to identify other determinants of cardiovascular risk. ...

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• 2021
• January 2021

Pneumonia is one of the top 10 diseases by morbidity in Bhutan. This study aimed to investigate the spatial and temporal trends and risk factors of childhood pneumonia in Bhutan. ...

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• 2021
• October 2021

We found no statistically significant association between processed red meat density and risk of a first clinical diagnosis of central nervous system demyelination ...

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• 2019
• February 2019

Maternal dietary intake of folate and vitamins b6 and B12 during pregnancy and the risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. ...

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• 2012
• January 2012

Optimal mental health in the pre-conception, pregnancy and postpartum periods is important for both maternal and infant wellbeing. Few studies, however, have focused on Indigenous women and the specific risk and protective factors that may prompt vulnerability to perinatal mental disorders in this culturally diverse population. ...

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• 2020
• February 2020