Brad Carrington Fiona Farrant Shepherd Stanley BM CCJ FJ BSc (Hons), PhD PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) Co-Head, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Honorary Research ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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RSV was associated with substantial burden of childhood hospitalization specifically in children aged <3 months and in Indigenous children and pre-term children ...

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• 2016
• June 2016

Environmental exposures including maternal inflammation, diet, nutrient balance, microbial colonization and toxin exposures can directly and indirectly... ...

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• 2015
• May 2015

Atopic asthma, which is at its highest prevalence during childhood/young adulthood, represents the main focus of this review. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• May 2010

Whether airway mucosal acidification drives early progressive lung disease is controversial ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• August 2018

The EU LifeCycle Project was launched in 2017 to combine, harmonise, and analyse data from more than 250,000 participants across Europe and Australia, involving cohorts participating in the EU-funded LifeCycle Project. The purpose of this cohort description is to provide a detailed overview over the major measures within mental health domains that are available in 17 European and Australian cohorts participating in the LifeCycle Project. ...

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• 2021
• November 2021

In light of the obesity epidemic, we aimed to characterize novel childhood adiposity trajectories from birth to age 14 years and to determine their relation... ...

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• 2011
• April 2011

Maternal mental health problems are common during the perinatal period and have been associated with several negative outcomes in children. However, few studies have examined the associations between maternal mental health problems and offspring outcomes among Indigenous people, and the findings across these studies have been inconsistent. This scoping review examined the birth and childhood (≤12 years) health and development outcomes of the children of Indigenous women with mental health problems. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

There is increasing evidence that the functional state of the immune system at birth is predictive of the kinetics of immune maturation in early infancy. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• April 2010

Persistent respiratory bacterial infections are a clinical burden in several chronic inflammatory airway diseases and are often associated with neutrophil infiltration into the lungs. Following recruitment, dysregulated neutrophil effector functions such as increased granule release and formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) result in damage to airway tissue, contributing to the progression of lung disease. ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

Here we review the current knowledge of key molecular pathways that are dysregulated during persistent goblet cell differentiation ...

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• 2018
• May 2018

Pulmonary bacterial infections present a significant health risk to those with chronic respiratory diseases including cystic fibrosis and chronic-obstructive pulmonary disease. With the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, novel therapeutics are desperately needed to combat the emergence of resistant superbugs. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023