André Graham Ingrid Schultz Hall Laing AS GL IL MBChB, PhD, FRACP BAppSci PhD CRFS FANZSRS FThorSoc FERS BSc PhD Program Head, Respiratory Health RFA Honorary Research Associate Head, Children's Respiratory Science 6319 1828 Ingrid.laing@ ...

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Recent evidence suggests that parental exposures before conception can increase the risk of asthma in offspring. We investigated the association between parents' preconception body mass index (BMI) trajectories from childhood to adolescence and subsequent risk of asthma in their offspring. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

Asthma is the most common chronic lung disease in childhood. There has been a significant worldwide effort to develop tools/methods to identify children's risk for asthma as early as possible for preventative and early management strategies. Unfortunately, most childhood asthma prediction tools using conventional statistical models have modest accuracy, sensitivity, and positive predictive value. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

This study demonstrates novel intrinsic differences in tight junctions gene and protein expression between airway epithelial cells of children with and without asthma ...

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• 2018
• May 2018

The glutathione S-transferase enzymes (GSTs) play an important role in the detoxification of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), which contributes to airway infl ...

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• 2010
• November 2010

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

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• 2010
• May 2010

Airways hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is one of the major clinical features of allergic airways disease including allergic asthma ...

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• 2010
• January 2010

We identified new asthma loci, found new associations at loci implicated in the comorbidity of asthma plus hay fever and confirmed nine known loci. ...

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• 2018
• January 2018

Recurrent severe asthma exacerbations are associated with decreased lung growth or accelerated loss of long function and add substantially to cost and morbidity ...

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• 2017
• February 2017

This article assesses the absolute and specific antibody titres to VP1 antigens of the gut-trophic enteroviruses, echovirus 30 and Sabin 1 poliovirus, in... ...

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• 2015
• October 2015

Lung inflammation resulting from ARIs during infancy is linked to asthma development. ...

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• 2015
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Population-based birth cohorts on asthma and allergies increasingly provide new insights into the development and natural history of the diseases. ...

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• 2014
• April 2014